Hi Forum,
I just recently found this forum and saw that a lot of people are getting great feedback here.
I am a 30-year old guy from Finland. I have been throwing discs for five summers now, just casually on courses with friends. It was enough to develop me for a couple of first years, but now for two years I have seen hardly any progress. I have not done really any dedicated practice so far, but I decided change that.
There are probably tens of different things to correct in my game, but the most frustrating problem that has crept into my game quite recently is that my backhand throws tend to leak to the right. This is especially bad here in where I play, because most courses are quite tightly wooded and require an accurate but not necessarily very long shots.
Today I went to a local football field and I recorded some of my shots for the analysis and feedback.
This is just a shot at a target in 150'. I would not definitely need a run-up here, but I did it for the sake of demonstration:
http://https://youtu.be/_vsAxD56Yhs
A similar but not the same shot with the back view:
A shot to 270'. Actually almost hits the target water bottle, but the line is way more right and high than what I wanted.
A shot to 250'. Goes super right, but this is what I do. You can see the flight pattern.
It looks like classical rounding to me. The reach back itself does not look or feel that bad, but when I start to pull, I sort of bring the disc behind my chest. Is this a correct conclusion? Also the follow-through with the throwing hand pointing to the sky looks super awkward. From the side view, the angles of the throwing hand seem to be quite off as well and in addition, the disc does some sort of down-and-up movement during the throw.
And the more important question is that what can I do for that? Even though I concentrate on not rounding, it did not help at least in the short time span of this session.
Finally, just for a couple of throws after reviewing those videos on the field, I deliberately started concentrating on bringing the hand in the follow-through to the side and down rather than pointing to the sky and it seemed to help at least on the very limited sample size. Here is one clip of such a throw, where I threw Buzz SS 270' on a straight and intended line, sorry for the bad camera placement:
I did not have any more time to record the back view of the similar throw.
Any feedback is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!
I just recently found this forum and saw that a lot of people are getting great feedback here.
I am a 30-year old guy from Finland. I have been throwing discs for five summers now, just casually on courses with friends. It was enough to develop me for a couple of first years, but now for two years I have seen hardly any progress. I have not done really any dedicated practice so far, but I decided change that.
There are probably tens of different things to correct in my game, but the most frustrating problem that has crept into my game quite recently is that my backhand throws tend to leak to the right. This is especially bad here in where I play, because most courses are quite tightly wooded and require an accurate but not necessarily very long shots.
Today I went to a local football field and I recorded some of my shots for the analysis and feedback.
This is just a shot at a target in 150'. I would not definitely need a run-up here, but I did it for the sake of demonstration:
http://https://youtu.be/_vsAxD56Yhs
A similar but not the same shot with the back view:
A shot to 270'. Actually almost hits the target water bottle, but the line is way more right and high than what I wanted.
A shot to 250'. Goes super right, but this is what I do. You can see the flight pattern.
It looks like classical rounding to me. The reach back itself does not look or feel that bad, but when I start to pull, I sort of bring the disc behind my chest. Is this a correct conclusion? Also the follow-through with the throwing hand pointing to the sky looks super awkward. From the side view, the angles of the throwing hand seem to be quite off as well and in addition, the disc does some sort of down-and-up movement during the throw.
And the more important question is that what can I do for that? Even though I concentrate on not rounding, it did not help at least in the short time span of this session.
Finally, just for a couple of throws after reviewing those videos on the field, I deliberately started concentrating on bringing the hand in the follow-through to the side and down rather than pointing to the sky and it seemed to help at least on the very limited sample size. Here is one clip of such a throw, where I threw Buzz SS 270' on a straight and intended line, sorry for the bad camera placement:
I did not have any more time to record the back view of the similar throw.
Any feedback is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!
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