I just have to say that I have in the past been critical of these technique forums and even stated earlier that I avoided them around tournament time. Well I have to eat crow today because HyzerUniBomber you just fixed me. I went out to a field today and was just spraying shots everywhere. Let me preface this by saying that I've had the weight transfer and hip part of my throw down for a while but my biggest problem was my release and namely grip lock. Well today after frustratingly spraying shots everywhere I opened up an old video Uni, it was one of his older ones and it was about his routine for practice. The first thing I noticed was he finishing at 12'oclock on every throw whether it was a drive or upshot. I also noticed that I never did that, I then remembered how he had mentioned that with the proper elbow drive and hand slap that you could never grip lock. So I decided to give it a try and just stand still and focus on finishing as close as I could to 12 and guess what? No more grip locks every shot started going where I wanted. Mind you Ive throw 550+ in distance comps but my disc golf distance had always maxed at about 410'.... well after about 50 throws finishing at 12 I lined up and threw two perfect Destroyer, disc golf shots 500'+ I was blown away?!? It was the moment I've been looking for, for the last 6years of field work. Thank all you guys for what you do, I know I have thousands of hours of
Practice ahead of me but finally I feel like I'm the right track and it's all thanks to these threads!
Holy poop! What a nice thing to hear! That's really amazing. I couldn't be any happier for you man, that's really cool.
RE: the truthHurts -
I don't mind people doubting whether I can personally throw "far". I often doubt that I can throw very far. I certainly had doubts about guys like Beato / Bradley / Blake when I first read what they were saying. Then it dawned on me, who cares if they can out throw McBeth... they're trying to help me, and I'm glad somebody was!
I like to think I promote concepts that are sound and well thought out and that I practice in the field. they've totally changed my game. 180 degree turn around.
I've worked pretty much non-stop since I started playing DG (not even 2 years ago) and one of the most frustrating aspects of it was that there were very few guys on youtube or easily google'able that could help me understand what was up. I've talked alot about mis-understanding Beato's right pec drill... I read DGR, but left scratching my head because I was still on step 1 and they were getting through the post-doc.
All that I try to do is to simplify steps, and then say WHY I think that something should work that way. I video tape myself all the time, so you'll get a nice long video of me throwing putters and mids from a stand still and then you can look at all the countless videos I've posted from my account.
I was really proud to have the stars align and have a really awesome throw that hit 470-ish feet. I can't reproduce it. My typical distance in a round that I can throw flat and relatively low (10' off the ground) is about 425'. I rarely try to gun it full bore, as that's typically less accurate.
If I want to throw for max-d, it's maybe once a week for about 15-20 throws total. They are like gambling, sometimes I don't get it to crest the turn over and they're off into the road. It's not really a golf shot, and I like to play golf more than throw max d. And I feel like max-d shots are harder on my body.
All that I try to preach, is that the hit is amazing for throws that don't wear you out. You can be old like me (40 in 4 months), play multiple full rounds, and still get up and down at the end of the day if you're not trying to kill yourself to throw the disc.
And let me tell ya, I used to try to kill myself throwing discs. I left all of the early form videos in my youtube account. Everybody here saw the hot mess I started with... I just have a stubborn streak in me to keep failing and keep coming back for more.
I use google maps / earth to measure distance. I also play with enough guys here who would joyfully debunk me if I went around saying that I could throw 500', which I can't... so I don't.
