How do I join the discord? I'm really old
In fairness, I may be missing a lot of the context on this particular person seeming unreceptive to having a dialogue.
You are.
I have done multiple form checks for him.
And it was just arguments about how I and everyone else was wrong from him.
Are we arguing that physical fitness doesn't improve throwing?
No one is saying that doing pushups = max distance. Where is that strawman coming from?
As others have stated, that was a joke.
I am not in the shape that I was in, but there are not many disc golfers, especially even pro golfers, who are in as good of shape as I am in.
Can you throw further being in good shape? Sure. But it doesn't mean you will throw further.
Want y'all to know that I am working on my comma challenged writing style.
Know any videos of this guy? Google turned up a 2015 in the bag but was struggling to find more.
There is a national tour video of him on feature card or something somewhere from a number of years ago.
Graham focuses more on family than touring.
He's also throwing massive bombers out in the desert where nobodies disc goes far.
I had a person I used to play with call me after playing a round with him. He was a 550+ thrower and was annoyed he couldn't get any distance out there and Graham was out driving everyone from standstills.
I liked the video to an extent.
But as sheep said, that discord is next to unbearable at times. Most of the guys in here are willing to listen and debate topics - in that discord, people tend to think that "I can throw xxx, therefore I'm a form guru and my opinion matters the most". The second they were riding "coach" T's nuts, I were outta there.
That fucking hulk-build guy we got in here (nick?) That throws 700 is a great humble guy and I REALLY like his videos. He listened to SW and Brychanus with an "interest" in stuff..
The guy above doesn't gives me the same vibes, at least not in that discord.
Sorry, I always forget you were in there too.
You, of course, then remember all the conversations about how everyone was wrong after he had played for like 4 months, and he was right cause he could throw 500 feet already.
I guess I am kind of confused about how people use terminology. A 500' standstill is a beast of a throw IMO, and one that cannot be 'muscled' in the way I use that word in the RHBH context. People having a muscular, athletic build does not automatically mean they are 'muscling' the disc. To me muscling the disc is using your arm out of sequence, and this simply cannot be done to throw a disc that far.
I have a bit of inside baseball on it because I've done form checks on him.
While he does use his body, he is a mainly armed muscle thrower.
And being a power lifter and knowing his concept was about basically bulking up and hulk smashing and all throws must be 100%.
It's a bit different.
Wether the video is good or not - its spacstic to makes instructional videos when you barely played a year. Doing videos with your "journey" to better form is a whole other thing though - sharing stuff that made your swing better in a manner that doesn't make you look like "coach", is the way to go.
Lets bring it back here, cause this is where my angry soap box yelling at clouds shit comes from.
It's good and fine to document your journey, what you're doing and who you're talking to.
That's kind of what made bodanza a person people wanted to watch. He was documenting what he was doing, he wasn't trying to present himself as an expert or a coach.
I could only find older videos of him too. I always like watching people who dedicate some real time to a solid standstill shot and have always been sad there isn't more coverage of GR.
Yeah, he's physically unable to do a "run up" for a backhand. And yes, I wish He did more, but he's basically an ambassador level sponsored player at this point.
