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Hopefully newer players who think you need to walk down the teepad backwards to get proper reach back will watch this and stop doing that ridiculous looking approach. opcorn:
James Conrad?I am constantly telling players that the giant reachback does nothing in the woods of Virginia but endanger trees.
Catapults/trebuchets use a sling to whip.
Seppo "reaching back".
I just swing back and forth like a pendulum, if I want more distance I swing back longer away from my center of gravity moving forward.
A towel that is already curled up will not whip as hard as one being dynamically curled.Are you saying that a "reach back" is similar to a catapult launch, pretty much straight back and straight through? That seems to help with my accuracy, pulling straight through to the target.
But a whip, where the "backswing" is actually curled across the chest, is like an actual whip, curled up and then unleashed with a crack!? It feels like that would lead to accuracy problems, finding that right time to release on target, when your arm is not moving in a straight plane.
Not really clear or helpful IMO. Seppo definitely reaches back. Reach back is just poor nomenclature for a back swing that's a by-product of getting your body positioned and loading up for the throw. He doesn't explain the difference between "sling" (poor word choice again) and "whip." I think by sling he means strong arming or rounding where you don't really get the multiplier effect created by using leverage. If you consciously reach back and then pull on a straight line without the levers doing anything your velocity ceiling is capped pretty hard. But slinging the disc out on a leveraged arc is exactly the goal so that's gonna confuse people.
I actually thought he was referring to the power pocket, where the whip throw gets into the power pocket and the sling throw does not.