Hey
I am wondering about what should be done differently on shorter drives. For example 200-300 ft shots through gaps where accuracy is more important than distance. Do you shift your weight in the same way, simply shorter? Do you plant the lead foot more open? Any other interesting ideas?
I have learned that when I throw it more with my arm, I am more accurate. That means I consciously bring the disc to my pecs. But that might be just my experience. And the slower tempo of course.
Interesting Q, I'd been noticing a lot of variability in this range.
These are the holes I throw most commonly (lots of woods and gap shots around me) and I've been getting much better at them C1 hit-wise. I now consistently lose more strokes to putts than to drives at this distance by a fair margin. Here's what I think I generally do:
1. Developing an accurate distance game always makes hitting gaps at distance easier. That involves the whole body. I always use a weight shift even if it's small.
2. I always have my eyes on an apex that will park the target, or often aim
through the target. This seems to help improve my precision.
3. Throwing from one leg or standstills is a legitimate way to do this if your technique is good. I always make sure I am pumping with my front leg - "all arm" to me implies fully inert legs and that's generally dangerous for the arm and shoulder. I prefer my arm to be along for the ride. The liability is that it's fairly easy to overshoot short holes just from a good one leg throw, so I usually use tricks to control distance at the shorter end of that range.
4. At 200' I throw mostly from one leg or an inline standstill. If I'm x-stepping it's basically just helping me find rhythm before throwing on one leg. Putters, Pigs are most frequent. If I can, I like to throw stalling shots to control distance and drop on the target from above. If it's a low-ceiling gap shot, I'm usually throwing on hyzer so even if there's an overshoot it will tend to come back to earth rather than glide away.
5. At the 250' range, I sometimes throw from one leg, but prefer a standstill, or a compact or downtempo x-step. It has gotten easier to achieve the same thing different ways with practice. Putters, Pigs, and Comets are most frequent depending on the line.
6. At the 300' range, I still am preferring to throw putters or mids, and usually am using a downtempo version of my distance form to try and lace the gap. That way I'm still learning about my distance form, but working on staying in control to hit the gap or stay in a tunnel. I usually use Comets at this range if it's a gap, or a Buzzz if it's more Anhyzer or needs to hyzer out in the finish. Also remember that a 267' shot gets you into C1, so know how you are rolling the dice in terms of parked vs. a long putt based on your own percentages.
