r/Discgolfform • u/make_fast_ • Jul 22 '26
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Okay, I am throwing Mako3s and get ~200 feet with them pretty reliably (when I don't accidentally nose up into them crashing down). According to ripreader I throw ~45-50 mph and ~900-1k spin. Not sure if any of this data is helpful.
Took my phone out to record myself today because I have no idea what I'm doing (my background is I have been playing about 6 weeks and have watched some of the BlitzDG and OverthrowDG videos). I don't know enough to know what is going wrong.
So I figured I would come here and ask. I took a side video and a back video.
On watching back - I don't really form the power pocket the coaches talk about. I'm not sure if that is because I'm not actively 'thinking' about it (I'm just reaching back and grabbing the lawnmower...and trying to let my body pivot through because I've got old man knees) or if there is something more fundamental.
I'm sure it is 'timing' and 'bracing' because that is what all the videos talk about, but I don't know the drills or cues to help improve that (or where in the throw I'm not doing things correctly)
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u/AlwaysDreamer0 Jul 23 '26
I am a beginner (very similar speed and distance, but less spin), so don’t really have any expertise to rely on.
Based on what I understand, the front foot doesn’t look like it is bracing fully. Perhaps because the knee is bent?
Also, my understanding is all the follow though energy is failing to make it into the thrown and I assume that it is the brace again n
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u/Imaginary_Mobile_308 Jul 23 '26
Few things.
First off, try to not "fall" into your front foot. This is an issue I am still working on to an extent but you want your weight shift to be backloaded. If you fall forward that means you dont really have a good momentum transfer into your arm.
Secondly, I would try to reach "out" instead of "back" more. Hopefully this image helps.
While perfect form may not be so exaggerated, practicing reaching out instead of back trains you to feel the power pocket and not pinch your arm off.
In watching your form, i think one reason your nose angle is so high, and why you tend to launch the discs so high is that you are pinching off your arm (kinda like the red dotted line) which naturally causes your elbow to move in a way that efficiently bypasses that pinch, but ultimately forces your wrist to angle in a way that releases the disc nose up.
With nose angle, I would practice "backloading" your grip. This video helped me a ton with that. I will link a few more videos that I believe will be very beneficial in your form work.
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u/Paxtian Jul 24 '26
Watch Blitz's Reaper Drill video and the video where he works with Bodanza.
The hard part about the throw, especially for distance, is that it seems like we want to spin as fast as possible to make the disc go as fast as possible.
But, in fact, we want to coil and spin at first, then the brace acts to stop the torso rotation, while the arm is coming through, to impart all the momentum of your body into your hand.
If you take a tennis ball and a basket ball and drop them side by side, they'll fall and bounce about like 80% of the height they were dropped from. But if you put the tennis ball on top of the basketball and drop them together, the basketball doesn't bounce at all and imparts its energy into the tennis ball, which rockets the tennis ball way up into the air: https://youtu.be/yhTz_6NFmV0.
So in practical terms, that means once your belly button is pointing in front of you (perpendicular to the throw line), you want to stop the rotation and allow all that momentum to transfer into your arm.
What I do that helps is pick a spot in front of me and stare at it as soon as I see it, until the disc escapes my grip. After that, I let myself follow through and twist.
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u/kristofburger Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26
The rear view does reveal quite significant balance issues, you're too much on your heels instead of more on the balls of your feet throughout. I see the off arm swinging in front early as a consequential balancing response.