Well, that was definitely an improvement. I'm not there yet and I can feel it, but it's SO much easier and very fun. I was throwing my normal X-step distances from standstill, and not really trying that hard...it feels like almost no arm or shoulder effort. Just maintain shoulder leverage and the disc just keeps in the air somehow. It's like the % effort I put in vs. disc flight is very far off of what I'm used to. It doesn't even seem that much faster out of hand but it must be, the disc keeps carrying.
With that grip I feel like I have to get "over" the disc and commit to a shot. If I do that then it's nose down. If I throw shots under say 250' then I'm going to have to get used to this. But I think it's related to my balance being off still, then hopefully I'll be nose down on all shots.
So I feel like I'm still behind the plant heel. As well I think I'm again swinging too early still? I feel my right shoulder in constant leverage in the backswing and transition, and feel the right shoulder in leverage moving forward. Then I unload the shot against my front leg. I didn't feel the same left shoulder to front instep leverage that I had been when drilling this, so I think I need to wait longer and get even farther forward before swinging.
Standstill was throwing mids in the 325' range and fairways 350', X-step adding like 25' to fairways and I know I'm not super efficient adapting it. There was a decent amount of wind though, so that messes with things. But the most positive with the wind is I could actually get full flights out of high speed drivers with a 10MPH tailwind, typically that much wind would cause my discs to fade out super early and knock them back to fairway distances. So that is very encouraging.
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