gretagun said:josser said:I end this with a question. Has anybody else been successful in finding the hammer pound, but found that it was quite far from your body or that the pull line was quite high?
Josser, I definitely have found more success with the hammer pound when I tend to keep everything further away from my body. I get that heavy disc feeling, and my Rocs and Wizards have been leaving my hand at a noticeably faster speed. This is also when I feel I get my longest drives, with hardly any physical effort at all. It even seems to yield better results with the towel drills as well. It drives me crazy b/c this seems contrary to everything I have read, and I still don't understand it. When I try to bring things close to my right pec, nothing feels right, the pound does not feel strong at all, and my consistency and distance goes out the window. The only time I feel I'm pulling close to the chest sometimes is with steep hyzers. I cannot comment on the high pull line b/c I have really been trying to keep that lower lately.
I had a friend review a few of my "further away from the body" throws, and he still thought it looked like I was keeping things tight enough to my body. I need to get some throws on video and review them to know for sure.
Good point. Once I find that throw again I should take video to see how far away from the body I actually am. But like you said, it seems crazy that it is working best when farther away from the body since that goes against the accepted good technique.