Recent content by BenjiHeywood

I dunno that i agree totally. Throwing a ball overhand is not actually all that natural, it's just something we've practiced from a young age. The 'timing' in the kinetic chain feels automatic, but it definitely isn't. Throwing with the off hand is a good indicator of that - most people will...

From a brief watch of the relevant segment, i think he's suggesting something quite different. He's talking about maintaining balance, so as the arm goes out to throw, the back leg goes back as a counterweight. You can see he's pretty stationary on that front foot - rather than trying to gain...

If we think about inertia again, this might start to seem obvious. For maximum easy power, you'd want to use the legs to get the whole system moving (including the shoulder and arm) and only then, when you've stopped accelerating with the legs, add a bit more with the arm. Imagine you're...

I always aim for the link i want to actually hit. It's a point of focus, but it's not an aiming point for the initial trajectory (as Neil seems to be describing above where he talks about expecting to hit a different link than his aiming point). I'm trying to get my conscious mind out of the way...

There's a cool graph of p-hacking in Jordan Ellenberg's "How not to be wrong". And I never miss an opportunity to recommend that book. A totally brilliant book about maths for the intelligent layman (much better than it sounds from that description!).

I'm enjoying the discussion too, but my own experience encourages me towards the holistic solutions. The biggest game changer for my nose angle was suitcasing/briefcasing whatever you want to call it. Keeping things so pronated into the hit puts my wrist and forearm in a position where they...

Lol, no worries. I read the first sentence, particularly with the emoji, as 100% sarcastic. Says as much about me as anything, i suppose.

Sorry, no insult intended! I was just going off your suggestion that '3' was part of the issue. '1' is hard to fix, but it'll largely fix itself over time (more and more tournament experience, more and more confidence that you have all the tools you need etc). Unless you have real anxiety or...

I only know what you've told me, so I'm not in a perfect position to advise, obviously. But it sounds like, if you want to score better in tournaments, you'll need to practice the shot shapes, stances and distances that come up regularly on the courses near you. 570 feet is more than enough to...

Hard to say without watching you play the tournament. But there's a couple of fairly obvious possibilities that leap to mind. One is that you aren't executing well in the round, due to pressure/expectation, but you're more comfortable in the skills bit and therefore able to execute better. You...

Yeah, i didn't really understand all that collision stuff but didn't feel qualified to debunk it. I do think that arcs and levers are an easy aspect to overlook, so i guess i made the assumption that some of his other stuff made sense (even though i didn't understand what he was saying in...

That's really interesting, and ties in nicely with some stuff I've been thinking about with the 'whip' idea in throwing and how each link in the kinetic chain goes round an arc. The one thing I'd be tempted to push back on is the 'end range of motion' idea, or at least the implication (whether...

I'm enjoying the strive. It really does fly a long way, holds the turn forever. But it's definitely touchy. Lots of fun, but not a disc I'm going to reach for often in competition. Mine doesn't really flip up much if i start it on a decent hyzer, and doesn't get great distance. But if i start...

The opposite - it's sometimes not recording for long enough. All i know for sure is that it needs to be stationary to calibrate. Here's what i imagine is happening - a bit of guesswork but i bet it's not far off. When the disc is stationary, the combined acceleration measured by all the...

I'm going to defend techdisc a bit. It can throw out silly numbers once in a while, if you do something funky, and it's possible to game it if you know how. But if used properly i find it very accurate. You can get daft numbers if you don't let the disc be stationary at some point in the 6...