HyzerUniBomber
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Our boy SW22 dropped a little nugget on somebody about the off arm (paraphrasing): off arm comes in with the heel plant and then makes a swimming paddle motion during swing.
I've brought the off arm in before, but it was just to keep it tighter to the body (and then I still often forget and let it get wide)... but when he said "swimming stroke" or whatever it clicked differently for me physically. Instead of just leaving my off arm relatively limp or whatever, it comes across.
I think that motion of bringing the off arm forward made me also load a bit more directly forward and then there's also a bunch more leverage available.
I had a one tremendous shot yesterday that was unmeasured but it was very likely the longest I've thrown by a substantial margin.
Potential issues that I would see with it - and was addressing via video review:
1. I wasn't getting my shoulders squared up in the backswing because I was telegraphing the arm move forward. Fix: duh, square the shoulders up! Relatively easy fix once I caught it.
2. My backswing got tighter and came off the swing plane. Fix: loose backswing, loooooose and low so that as the disc came forward it stayed flat. This one is a bit harder to fix, because you will be tightening up the swimming arm, and need to keep everything else loose and timed right.
The only other way I can describe it is that the off arm is going to reach forward and in order to get a swim stroke, you have drive the weight properly off the back foot to be able to swim. It could be that the byproduct of trying to do this move is that I'm improving my weight transfer direction?
Lastly, my accuracy went off a bit - but there was no doubt that leverage is something real.
Just something to mess with.
I've brought the off arm in before, but it was just to keep it tighter to the body (and then I still often forget and let it get wide)... but when he said "swimming stroke" or whatever it clicked differently for me physically. Instead of just leaving my off arm relatively limp or whatever, it comes across.
I think that motion of bringing the off arm forward made me also load a bit more directly forward and then there's also a bunch more leverage available.
I had a one tremendous shot yesterday that was unmeasured but it was very likely the longest I've thrown by a substantial margin.
Potential issues that I would see with it - and was addressing via video review:
1. I wasn't getting my shoulders squared up in the backswing because I was telegraphing the arm move forward. Fix: duh, square the shoulders up! Relatively easy fix once I caught it.
2. My backswing got tighter and came off the swing plane. Fix: loose backswing, loooooose and low so that as the disc came forward it stayed flat. This one is a bit harder to fix, because you will be tightening up the swimming arm, and need to keep everything else loose and timed right.
The only other way I can describe it is that the off arm is going to reach forward and in order to get a swim stroke, you have drive the weight properly off the back foot to be able to swim. It could be that the byproduct of trying to do this move is that I'm improving my weight transfer direction?
Lastly, my accuracy went off a bit - but there was no doubt that leverage is something real.
Just something to mess with.
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