New Player - Distance Driving Analysis

[RickPC86]

Hey all,

I'm pretty new to the sport and looking for some help in my form, mainly for distance driving. I can consistently throw my teebird 300+ with my max throw with that disc around 375. I have tried to upgrade a bit and go with a faster disc so I've been trying the teedevil and the boss. All 3 discs are 175g. The teedevil and boss average around 330-340, but I feel I have potential for these to reach 400. I have only been playing for about 3 months, and have been going back and forth with my drives trying to tweak little things here and there that I see in these videos. Just looking for some advice as to where to start, and where my main areas of concern are. I'll post a few different throws / angles.

Thanks in advance!

https://youtu.be/ckBSywkeTV0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzXTQuSJvtc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INnxGNIt05Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCfqaSf_2_k

 

[slowplastic]

You're relying on being tall and athletic, and trying to kill the disc. I'll just say right now you won't throw any further than you currently are unless you change a few things.

First of all, you're gripping the disc too nose-up, which causes it to flutter and go sky high when it comes out. Check out this site, particularly paying attention to disc angle with respect to forearm: https://www.dgcoursereview.com/dgr/resources/articles/gripittoripit.shtml

Secondly, you're lunging forward off your back heel (stay on the toes/insteps!) and tossing your upper body forward. As well you're really just trying to use arm strength.

I'd take it back to some standstills to take your fast runup out of the equation. Watch this video for starters to get a smooth reachback and plane consistency going:



You'll be able to add some significant distance, at way less effort than you are using right now. But you'll have to take a few steps back and rely on some technique changes rather than brute strength.

 

[Dr.Smooth]

Whoa ... whoa dude slow down. You've been playing for three months. Are you kidding me. Post this again in about two years. Then we'll talk.

In the meantime drop your weights, stay with the bird and slow everything down.

Don't rush the process of developing good form!

 

[SMcVicker91]

Whoa ... whoa dude slow down. You've been playing for three months. Are you kidding me. Post this again in about two years. Then we'll talk.

In the meantime drop your weights, stay with the bird and slow everything down.

Don't rush the process of developing good form!

????

I wish I had posted on here after only 3 months of experience. You suggest he spends 2 years developing bad habits before trying to improve his form?

 

[sidewinder22]

Leaving your hips behind and collapsing/folding your posture over the top. Need to keep your posture and balance more upright stacked and centered so you can rotate more/faster.

 

[RickPC86]

Thanks everyone for the replies. Haven't had too much time to practice lately, but here is a video of me throwing from today. I slowed everything down to just a walk up, but didn't realize (until I watched this video) that I am still throwing from my back heel.

Any progress? Am I doing anything right that I should not change? I haven't seen any more distance, but I have noticed I am getting the same with a lot less effort.

https://youtu.be/Bm0kZSWqLfY

 

[sidewinder22]

1. Check your Grip. You are aligning the disc way nose up to compensate for swinging high to low and your posture collapsing over through the swing like a lawn chair folding over. If your disc was aligned to the arm you would throw 10' into the ground in front of you, but since the disc is nose up, it bounces up creating a ton of drag and slowing the disc down fast.
https://www.dgcoursereview.com/dgr/resources/articles/gripittoripit.shtml


2. Disc choice. If you want to work on improvement, you will need to work with putters and mids more. You need to learn how to make those fly on different lines and how to throw level or upward trajectory. High speed drivers will just continue to mask or compensate for your plane issues.

3. Don't curl your arm/disc in the backswing. You want to extend your arm and disc as far away from your center as possible in the backswing so it travels fairly straight backward and forward. What matters is how far from your center back and forward, not how much you move your center back and forward, so keeping your body more centered allows you to quickly move the disc further from your center both ways and to fully release the whip forward.



4. Turn your body, not the disc. Your whole front side needs to turn further backward at the plant. And you also need to turn your rear foot more forward, so you stop pushing off your heel with the toes in the air. You want to drive your heel off the ground using your instep/toes, to make a forward move. If you watch Will S drive, he turns his front foot backward at the plant, while you are turning your foot forward at the plant, so he keeps turning/torquing his core much further both ways. Your weightshift should happen from behind you. You will need to stop looking ahead of your throw(turning your head) and trust your body to do the aiming.