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Why is your left leg back at such an extreme angle?
lostDoughnut, have you look at videos of the foot placement of the top pros? McBeth, Adderhold, Gibson...
Not quite.
The significance of getting the disc close to your CoG is not just re: the figure skater retracting their appendages Doc Ock style to increase the rate of body spin. Sure, don't let your left/off arm flail around and drag down your RPMs.
The point of my metaphor: It's a bounce. The closer it gets to your CoG/center of momentum without crashing into it, the more violent the ejection away, out from your CoG. When you get it, the momentum feel is very different.
thank you for a response!! ive been sticking with standstills and i really want to see how far i can take it. from what ive gathered up to this point and felt this far having my left leg in the position shown below
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it helps me keep my front knee from going over my front toe. image below shows good knee over toe position. this helps me in making it easier for my front knee to extend and push my hip back and way from the target resulting in some really nice rotation!
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vs me getting in trouble and having my front knee cave over my front toe. i have alot more practice to go and im sure im making it look harder than it needs to be :doh:
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Hope you're healing up ok man.
I did want to mention that I found it helpful to revisit the staggered standstill right after working on Battering Ram to help clean up the ground action and posture, then pendulum backswing like Inside Swing.
That has helped tighten up both the inline and staggered standstills and even out the foot pressure/reduce knee strain for me over time.
appreciate it. knee still bruised, when i try to go up stairs and put weight on my knee it feels bruised. when i walk normally its ok, if i walk alot it starts to get sore. luckily i work from home so i dont have to walk much. i went to the dr and got some xrays everything there looks perfect. i got some meds and if nothing changes next step is an mri. :doh:
i overworked myself and didnt take enough breaks in-between the gym/field:\
I feel you (including, unfortunately, a history of pain). We could all probably better critique training challenge/rest cycles. Sounds like we might relate - even though I'm putting less and less stress on my body, it means I want to throw more and more! It's too fun.