This is ALL very interesting and new. Can you talk more about HOW one would go about practicing this idea of springing the arm or disc? By sliding your hips forward while the disc/arm is still going back? In your final analogy at the bottom, I'm guessing tossing the ball on the string backwards and then immediately initiating the downswing by pulling the string would be like, tossing the disc back in your backswing, and your arm/disc catches tight and springs forward? And that you feel that stretch and spring in your lats/obliques? Does that sound about right?
And can you talk about HOW to do this? What has helped you learn how to go from spinning and rounding to bracing and the rubber band like feel? What specifically have you practiced to get that feel, and/or what mental notes or cues are you telling yourself to do, and when to achieve this feeling and results?
Can you clarify what you mean here by "pointed at the target"? I'm assuming you actually mean perpendicular to the target but maybe I missed something earlier in the thread.
I've been working hard at this hip stuff (via the rocking the hips thread) and I strongly suspect I'm now guilty of overturning, both in the backswing and the release, and of spinning more than transferring power (and also hitting that range of motion constraint you mentioned). It feels smooth and I'm getting more consistent, but so far it isn't gaining me much power. OTOH, if I don't overturn the hips, I tend to not get my backswing/shoulders fully facing away from the target (a different range of motion issue) and can round pretty badly.
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If you will allow me to dramatize for effect
Do a 'karate chop' from center sternum out. Palm down (I never felt this until I put my palm down, maybe because I was obsessing with grip angle and staying outside the disc).
Karate chops. Do them (not intense, just steady motion). Keep doing them until you are aware what your shoulders are doing. No hips. Barely torso. Chest. Out. Chest. Out. Chest. Out.
I noticed that my shoulders do a small counter rotation before the chops and slight forward rotation through the chops. I wasn't trying to do that, my body just did it because of my instinct to throat chop bad guys, or whatever.
Do you feel that? Karate. Chop. Karate. Chop. Karate. Chop. Your slight shoulder involvement? Keep going until you feel that slight shoulder assistance to the karate chop.
Karate. Chop. Karate. Chop. Just a little harder. Think of Chris Dickerson's pre-throw robot routine and karate chop the imaginary disc way out there a few times. Karate chop a little harder like Chris Dickerson on the tee pad before he throws.
Now drop the hammer. Karate chop the bad guy for real. For the kill. Do you know how? You haven't been doing it yet. Not even close. You have been spinning. Feels pretty strong. Secure, right? How do you add deadly force? More shoulder rotation won't do it.
Lean back.
That's all. Lean back.
Karate chop the exact same motion you've hopefully just done a few dozen times. But lean your weight back, lean your torso away from the target while you do that same karate chop. If you do this, you will feel your arm want to fly out of it's socket. It's remarkable. Now add a heel turn to your lean-back-karate-chops.
Well, anyway, this was what I was doing yesterday when I started to feel it. I threw a round and felt very confident, hit more lines than usual, but the course doesn't have any bomber holes, so I'll see if this really works on the practice field today.