One thing I noticed yesterday while just whipping my arm after seeing a few pictures of Feldberg. Sorry for the wall of text:
I used to keep my arm on a pretty high plane while throwing, almost shoulder height at times. I saw that Feldberg (and pretty much everyone else, I don't understand how I missed this) had his arm much lower down and decided to try it. I instantly began to feel the hit like never before, felt the shoulder "pause", felt the elbow extension, felt everything more. It also helped me keep the nose down, since the arm angle was more downwards, no need to bend the wrist as much, which also helped with my release (killed pretty much all OAT I ever had).
I quickly tried it out with my putter, which I almost always turn over quite a bit when throwing for distance. This time it went dead damn straight, even held a hyzer, while going farther than before. I also had some problems launching the disc where I wanted, it almost always went right from my intended target (as you can guess from the video I linked earlier). Now it went exactly where I aimed my shoulders. This caused me to lose my disc, since it went farther than intended and straighter than I expected (I threw on the street where I live, not the supermarket on the video). Flew over a fence into a nasty hill with lots of snow. Hopefully I'll find it before summer.
Today we went back to the supermarket and I got to try this out properly. The results were nothing short of unbelievable. I had lots of trouble with my aim before, now every single throw (well, except one or two) went right where I wanted it to go, maybe 2-5' off at most (at distances of around 330'). They also went amazingly straight and long. I could reach 340-350' with barely an effort, my longest rip with a FLX Surge landing at 370', just a tad more effort. Most throws raised only about 2' above head height, definitely would have gotten longer with higher distance lines. Discs I used to hyzerflip (pretty severe hyzer sometimes) now flew the same or straighter line on a flat or minimal hyzer release. For example I threw an X Buzzz with maybe 2 degrees of hyzer, tops. It just leveled out and landed at 330'.
The only thing I did to my form (that I'm conscious of) is lower the arm. That's it. Average distance went up (if anything), accuracy and consistency went through the roof, and I'm using way less power and effort to do all of this. OAT is gone to such a degree I can rip on a Soft Challenger as much as I want and not worry about it turning over a bit (used to be a problem before). The speed of the disc seems about the same as before but it just goes on for ever at the end of it's flight.
Why am I writing this? Well, partly because I'm full of endorphins from this amazing success and had to tell someone. But mostly because if something this simple could fix almost everything I've ever wanted to fix with my throw and make me feel the hit like never before, I think it could help others. The guy in the red jacket (when the admins finally get around to activating his account he's going to be known here as turso, he's the guy who's been throwing only for about 2 months) was with me and it worked almost just the same for him. It just sucks we didn't have a camera this time to show off the results, but as soon as we get it back I promise I'll post a video.
KEEP YOUR ARM DOWN!