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Be very careful in choosing an overload/underload training program. (Injury alert) Start slowly and be very selective of adjustments. It takes a long, long time to see substantive goals. In ball golf, Matthew Fitzpatrick began working with Dr Sasho McKenzie, and gained less than 1/2 mph per...

Fix your sequencing first. You are pulling before planted and over rotated at release. Elite arm speed needs perfect coordination of all segments. Timing vs muscle.

Yes. My comment was meant to say, in thinking about spin, think more about the benefits to forward velocity than down range stability. For distance throws, I see no one trying to add more spin. It is a by product of many release conditions.

No. The theory is the same. The difference in forehand vs backhand is the amount of distance torque can be applied to the disc in creating spin. I refer to it as pivot point travel (degrees of rotation around the thumb/index grip point). The amount of pivot point travel in a good backhand is...

Neil, I think the need for ulnar deviation goes back to my earlier comment about pretending to put a pencil in your grip as you are “turning the key” as in aligning your thumb/index position on the disc with the axis of rotation (pronation/ supination) of your forearm.

The simple answer is “yes” but not in the way you are thinking. Down range, spin increases gyroscopic stability which results in (1) resisting any change to the initial thrown flight pattern (2) decreasing wobble faster. Both of those can/may extend flight somewhat. The complex answer is spin...

Not being cryptic. You mentioned that the hips are pointed at the direction the disc is going. I’m trying to understand if you are saying at a specific point in the throw, the hips are pointed at the disc release direction? Or at what other direction? This is something I would like to look into.

Sheep, in your experience, at what part of the throw are the hips pointing in the direction the disc is going?

Sheep, what the data is saying is everyone that is throwing nose up or nose down is doing some amount of pronation/supination AND some amount of external shoulder rotation from PP into release. Everyone. Pros have figured out how to throw (change) the nose angle they choose to throw when they...

The anatomical mechanics of “turning the key” is ‘some amount of forearm supination and some amount of external shoulder rotation’. Every single pro I have tested, through their natural (or learned) mechanics, is “turning the key” in their own way. At this point in ‘their’ game, they are likely...

I’m only talking about backhands. Forehands are a total different animal.

Chin ups not pull ups.

Yes, but it gets more complicated than that because if during a round, we decide to apply more power than our standard stock throw the disc will get tugged more to the right and tend to hit first available. Each person’s natural release point is tied to the power being applied.

Depending on how much a player flexes(curls) their wrist into the PP, there is some extending from a curled position but I haven’t seen anyone (that I have motion captured (20) or filmed from drone above (100)) get back to a neutral position. See my earlier response as to why. Most of the...