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You will get more bounce/recoil if you keep turning back as late as possible going into the plant.Would opening the hips up then closing them rapidly as the front foot plants add more power you wager? Paul and Ricky come to mind when I imagine this.
Also, Shoulders, they are supposed to stay closed throughout the front-swing? How important would you say this is?
Also about the shoulders, As you are planting and ready to initiate your full power... Would you say that you gradually escalate them into the hit? I ask, because I cannot get out of the habit of trying too eager to move into my shoulder rotation from barely having my foot planted.
It's dynamic, but feels like it's right over the foot. On approaches it is over the foot...So is there a definite point in which you turn your shoulders into the throw? Kind of like folks talk about how your arm should be full extension as your front toe touches the ground, is there a landmark where you can gather the most recoil while coming out of the backswing?
Pretty sure I've added a little distance, but I'm not exactly getting an effortless 450 ft hyzer yet.
Some things are confusing here.
If I swing the disc exactly as I would pull a hammer, I seem to get a little more distance. Let me elaborate. Rather than keeping my arm loose the entire time and let my hips and shoulders throw the disc, I give it a little initial tug as I'm planting into my brace. I don't continue to contract the muscles in my lats, just one quick jerk at the beginning and let the rest of my arm go loose. I gained ~20 feet of distance by doing this the other day. It has to be timed just right with the brace and you can't keep the whole thing tense. The idea came to mind when I was pounding some concrete with a hammer at work and noticed that I dont really want to keep my whole arm tense, just enough to get the momentum going and let gravity do the work.
Felt I'd mention it because there seems to be a debate on calling the upper body throw a "pull-through" or not since we're not seriously just pulling the disc with the muscles in our arm.
I'm not sure why I'm not getting the range I initially wanted. When I release the disc it feels like it really snaps out of my hand hard. Hard enough that it hurts my fingers in cold weather. Not sure what gets people another 100-150 feet of distance here. Lol. It's either I'm doing something wrong with my hips in either timing/rotation or I'm doing something wrong with my arms. I don't think its a small thing. I think there's going to be one thing that's going to make a world of difference here.