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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...

I'm sorry too, i didn't mean to suggest there's anything other than precession happening. 😀 I'm still just imagining that as the nose moves around the disc - and the axis for the precession changes - some interesting things might happen that would have an effect on the edge-cases when you're...

I found this online (and similar info in other places) about a spinning top. My emphasis. "The expression for precession angular velocity is valid only under the conditions where the spin angular velocity ω is much greater than the precession angular velocity ωP. When the top slows down, the...

I'm not seeing it in the videos, but I'm also only looking on my phone. I was thinking it sounds impossible for anything to affect nose angle so drastically in such a short time. The disc would have to be traveling sideways in order for precession to move the nose. But this led me to an...

@sidewinder22 Here's a thought. Imagine a disc spinning completely on edge like when you spin a coin on the table. It surely experiences significant drag which works to reduce the spin rate. There's a continuum between spinning entirely on-axis in a clean flight, through a bit of wobble, then...

I dunno... Funny things definitely happen due to any wind gusts later in the throw, when the disc really has slowed to around zero airspeed - but at the peak, where ground speed is zero, the airspeed is probably at least 20-30 mph because of the wind. You wouldn't want to try and set mta records...

An excellent point. I'd be astounded if he wasn't deforming it. I've seen pics of ultimate discs distorting when thrown, and whilst they're a bit bigger and less dense, they're also not thrown at 85mph. I can't find a good photo just now. I think the split-second distortion of a disc is...

Perceived distance increase was noted by Nick, from the simulator. Eric just agreed that it is possible for a particular throw to get more distance, if it previously didn't have optimal turn - but also made clear that he didn't have total faith in the simulator anyway. Personally, I'm convinced...

You may be, more generally, i couldn't say. 😅 But it's a safe bet that you're right on this one. There's no way that wobble, with additional drag, can add distance potential, unless perhaps the lift associated with wobble-drag was somehow way stronger than ordinary smooth-flight lift. Which...

I think Eric is saying that the examples of increased distance are simply because the wobble adds turn to a disc that otherwise wouldn't achieve a full flight - wobble might add distance for a given stability/hyzer angle/nose angle, but couldn't add extra maximum distance potential to an...

Just linking to this fabulous data in another thread.