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Everything is just a series of levers. The muscle provides a springy effect to the hinge effect when the sequence and timing is correct.
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"Just lost the F%%%ing disc" Brilliant - just laughed very hard at that
Dude, you're going to start needing a bigger practice field very soon - those poor cars won't know what hit them!
Everything is just a series of levers. The muscle provides a springy effect to the hinge effect when the sequence and timing is correct.
It's ok in some certain situations like downhill tees, long strides, and some anhyzers, your foot rolls to the inside so your ankle/heel still leads the toes.
HUB, in your leverage video from yesterday I'm not exactly understanding what you do differently when you say "I'm going to add the weight of my arm and it's going to come into play out here". I feel like it could be part of what I'm not grasping with the rest of my arm.
Again thanks for all you guys continuing to discuss and throwing knowledge around.
What I did differently was that I moved the elbow hinge further out in front so that the arm extended towards the target.
Try the same exercise (somewhere that an ejected disc won't murder somebody or break your wife's favorite Ming vase). It's easier to feel than explain, but weight of your upper arm doesn't get transferred into the disc if you open forearm lever early.
When you start opening from left pec, center or without the elbow extended forward - it's pretty easy to hold onto the disc.
Extended elbow, opening from the right pec - it's coming out for sure.
It's not a subtle difference when you feel it. Having the whole arm extended out front really magnifies the force.
I believe that's what Beto was saying about adding all the distance in his hit-back video.
When you say start opening are you talking about opening the shoulders or opening the elbow hinge or both?
Elbow hinge.
It took a bunch of work for me to un-do being a left pec / center puller. During a few conversations here I was asking if anybody knew of any real benefit of opening the elbow hinge at the right pec vs. center.
It wasn't really fleshed out, other than to say that it's easier for most people to do from the center chest during a faster motion.
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To expand on that a little bit, if you hinge your elbow in the right position like you are talking about, your wrist flaps open and "pounds the hammer". You'll notice your thumb is pointing down the line at the basket.
If you hinge from the left pec, you'll notice that your wrist doesnt flap open the same and your thumb will be pointing in front of you instead of down the line.
I'm still working on this b/c I have an issue of opening my shoulders too early that I just can't kick. http://cl.ly/image/0B0r1Z1T260j screenshot, as close as I've gotten but the disc is already gone instead of just leaving.
any clue how to overcome this?
So one way to practice that extension feeling - would be to imagine that you want to hit somebody with your arm.
Right after you get the disc to your right pec, you hit somebody in the face with the back of your hand WHILE you're still holding the disc.
And that person is standing exactly a full arm extension to your left.
This was one of the ways that I thought of it. I kept after trying to hit something out in front of me and that really helped me to re-learn the extension.
got some video from this lunch break coming shortly. I slowed it way down, hopefully it helps.
okay, so I did my best to try to explain the elbow driving into that happy place.
Got pulled over right after leaving this park for a rolling stop... was super nice to the cop and he let me go with a warning.
Got pulled over right after leaving this park for a rolling stop... was super nice to the cop and he let me go with a warning.