What were your big lightbulb moments?

[nothinbuttree]

Michigan can be either or. A lot of coniferous mixed in. There are courses that are heavily wooded but have minimal underbrush but others that easily get overgrown. I love those forests with a blanket of needles that cover the ground and keep stuff from growing. Breakers, Shore Acres and Leprechaun Hollows are like that. Hence their popularity. Winstrom Preserve can get a little over grown in the summer but starts to die back in the fall. Winny sometimes needs her bush trimmed, lol.

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Little surprising to see pine forests in SW MI, but I guess they can be almost anywhere. I would not have thought GA would have them either, but remembering my time living in FL, you do start getting pine trees the further south you go. FL is mostly pine trees, live oaks, cedars and nasty palmetto bushes. Its all coming back to me now...

My area here is mostly pine tree-free, so I will have to make road trips to get to the good stuff.

 

[BogeyNoMore]

Most of the courses around SE Michigan feature brushy rough that's not fun to search in or scramble from, particularly the Metroparks and county run park courses. These seem to be the majority of courses around here.

Most of the municipality run parks courses are "park style" courses with plenty of trees and not much underbrush. Locally there doen't seem to be as many of those, but they certainly make for what I'd describe as a " friendlier, more pleasant" round.

WR Jackson has to be one of the best well-wooded, low underbrush courses I've ever played.

 

[mojorooks]

Yes, this is the stuff I am looking for, thanks!
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Little surprising to see pine forests in SW MI, but I guess they can be almost anywhere. I would not have thought GA would have them either, but remembering my time living in FL, you do start getting pine trees the further south you go. FL is mostly pine trees, live oaks, cedars and nasty palmetto bushes. Its all coming back to me now...

My area here is mostly pine tree-free, so I will have to make road trips to get to the good stuff.

Just a bit of history regarding western michigan... After the great chicago fire, they needed wood to rebuild so they cut down large chunks of forest along west michigan. Then later replanted those areas with pine. If you look closely at wooded areas, there are a lot of places where the trees are in a perfect line.

 

[Kennets]

I had a major breakthrough with sidearm, it was thanks to SW22's form review and the following 4 videos:

1. Scott Stokely "Don't serve the Pizza": https://youtu.be/nc2vWOKxWI4
2. SW22 "Forehand Instruction": https://youtu.be/EBrlJ9mDbhQ
3. SW22 "Late Elbow Cock & Injury": https://youtu.be/7qSZAaOK3hk
4. (Recomended by SW22) Baseball Glove hand mechanics: https://youtu.be/rnuxUYWtvuk

The biggest problem I had is that, like stokely demonstrates in his video, I was throwing sidearm similar to "throwing a baseball with backspin" (See video 1). I was doing this by initiating my throw with elbow twitch forward which created late elbow cock and shoulder pain (see video 3).

I fixed this by "pre cocking" my elbow back (as taught by SW22 in video 2, scott stokely, and as demonstrated by Ricky in video 3). Then it "feels" like I'm almost pushing the disc with my middle finger in a flat plane. In reality I am leading with my elbow but thats the "feel vs real". The glove arm demonstrated in video 3 and 4 and the footwork advice of planting with my toe vs heel helped with initiating the throwing motion. This all also helped significantly with FH upshots during league. I went from being in the 250ft range to consistently hitting 300ft with 350+ft drives on occasion. I literally went up in 50-100ft overnight. I still have issues with my form and and footwork etc but if I didn't I would be on tour )

Before, barely went about 300: https://youtu.be/VQVU04V8x3s

After, this one went 375: https://youtu.be/mud_YpvjKSY

Were about to comment that i had a pretty big breakthrough with my FH and stumbled upon this!

Hip/shoulder separation is key to get more (effortless) distance. Studying sidearms in disc and watching slow-mo's of pitchers to get a visual of the separation is what got my elbow pain to go away. So glad to hear that you're making major progress!

I've finally reached my "goal" regarding my FH distance and what did it for me was :

- power grip.. i literally changed my grip to a power grip (like Paul does)binstead of a stacked grip and it added A LOT of distance. The disc comes out with a lot more spin, eliminated nose up issues, got rid of most wooble and fixed my "swooping". Not sure how or why a grip switch had so much impact on my form, but it did.

I still need to play many more rounds to get it dialed in, but had several 400/430 drives today - and I'm completely mind blown.


(Watched your video btw. I would try to plant a tad more open with your front foot - in my experience it makes it much easier to get the right sequence aaaand you won't blow your knee out lol)