Round report, v. Cool findings. This is just stuff I've "learned" today.
1. This move is
bonkers. I love it. I'm commiting. It's going to be uniquely mine in a few ways, and I like that too.
2.
Basement vs. Outside Exhibit A: I was going to shoot 18 but was having way too much fun off the tee on the open hole 6. I was initially having a hell of a time getting the swing plane/trajectory right to get the "tip of the whip/snap" factor. However, I started to get it and then the discs started to flip and ride their turn phase longer than before and kept drifting longer farther right than before even from medium to steep hyzer. Intent matters: once I finally stopped messing around and decided to score the hole I pulled out my favorite distance driver. I exceeded my best controlled distance shot ever on that hole. Legit ~400' right at the mouth of the upshot tunnel, almost exactly where I wanted it. The flight was beautiful to watch. I barely felt like I was working for that shit too. God that felt good. And only needed a narrow 3 step X. Wow.
3.
Basement vs. Outside Exhibit B: My brace suddenly felt way more stable than it usually does. It's also dramatically recruiting a vertical brace force and putting the load squarely through my "posterior chain" group. My leg and butt are a little sore, but I think I was putting less lateral abuse on my knee. I am taking that to the bank.
4. Espen hop is clearly "correct" for this move even when I'm botching it a bit. Since I don't have great stability from that rear leg, as long as I'm getting "in front" of it and gaining momentum it works. I also was tempted to try literally clicking my heels like
@Sewer bill mentioned but didn't quite get there lol
5. I do not think this move is easy to master but I perceptually Understand much better why both Feldy and GG moves work, I think.
6. Wisdom for a developing golfer: Trying to finesse shots out of this move is
not for me right now. The tip of the whip is finicky like Bill predicted. For now this move is for when I want to smash hyzerflip control drives off the tee. I guess I can tell my wife why I'm buying a couple more discs! What a great day.
7. Fitness: my legs are only in good enough shape to pull off so many of these even though it "feels" easy. Will continue to work on fitness and space out practice. Will aim for 50/50 inside outside since that seems to help offset "basement vision" effects.
Swing thoughts right now and "dampening the pendulum/centrifuge:"
"This man thinks a lot!" Yes. But happily when I tee off
I am just throwing hammers at this point.
Swing thoughts that seem worth focusing on:
(1) nail a balanced Espen hop. This is hard. Interestingly though, as long as my CoM is not getting caught up and I land in braced tilt, I can get a pretty sick "hit" on the disc.
(2) Land and commit like these guys, and even more like Clement than McBeth here, which makes my lever arm/dingle much bigger like GG (with my short arms). This is easier for me than (1) but obviously depends on (1). My guess is that it's going to take some time for my arm/grip to figure out where the "sweet spot" is between a completely straight arm vs. a bent arm.
Observation/hypothesis: my move will work
sorta like Paul's, but more like GG's in how the disc "hammers out" because it will "drop" a little more vertically from my chest:
(3) direct the force out from the braced tilt more horizontal, which is hard to "capture" but possible from the vertical transition plane. This is hopefully just going to improve with intentional practice/actually targeting shots.
Fuzzy Force Ideas
Also, here's an idea that will probably help exactly no one and probably too abstract to be useful, but I was thinking about this again. GG's "3D centrifuge" in his motion is
enormous in X, Y, and Z dimensions. He is big in the vertical, horizontal, and West-East planes overall. He has maybe the largest non-straight-arm redirection out from his center and widest pocket of anyone I've seen. Mine is probably going to end up more "squashed" in the West-East dimension, but I am taller and stand with less hip hinge (right image). Mathematically GG's move involves two very large Ellipsoids. So my guess is that a significant percentage of his power comes from the "surface area" of those in his motion. Mine will always be smaller overall in at least one dimension. Athleticism and levers are part of it, but no matter what I do his move is always going to be better than mine due in part to the way his motion traverses this force space.