Recent content by bstar

Thanks for the responses, guys. All comments are applicable to my problem(s) right now.

Recently, after eight years of not playing and struggling to get my timing back, it's felt like the timing of the plant is off. Watching Dan Beto in slo-mo here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOMbSi_-3-k), it looks like the disc starts forward from the reachback an instant before the front leg...

I've found the "Throwing 300 feet" thread, JR, which is so chock-full of things I'm sure I'm doing wrong (strong-arming it!!) I'm just going to dive into that. I had the towel out last night trying to get it to snap correctly. I just need field practice really bad. Thanks again.

Thanks for the reply. I don't actually own all those max D understable discs, I've just thrown them in casual rounds (well, I do own a champ sidewinder, which is a 9 speeder.) I've thrown a wide assortment of fairway drivers, sorry to not make that clear. Leopards, Eagles, Cheetahs, Cobras...

Hey all, been lurking here for about a week and decided to finally start commenting. A brief but probably all-too-familiar history of my disc hucking: I started playing disc golf with frisbees around 1980. Hooked immediately, we used trees, mailboxes, stop signs, etc. as pins instead of...