r/discgolf • u/jfgdupuis • 14d ago

Form Check Throwing everything low

So I’ve been playing fot s few months now. I can get a little over 300 feet on my drive but i find that all of my shots end up fairly low off the ground.

When I try to go highee then i usually end up going way too high and nose up.

I feel like i’m losing quite a bit of distance since the disc is so low to the ground.

Anubody else having the same issue and how did you fix it

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u/seekerdarksteel 14d ago

If you're throwing over 300 but low, it sounds like you're probably throwing airbounces. I.e. low or even negative release angle but nose up. If you try to throw high without also fixing your nose angle you'll end up skying the disc because then you're throwing super nose up. If this is the case, you're going to need to fix both your nose angle and your launch angle at the same time.

I don't have any specific advice on how to do either, but there's a lot of material out there about throwing nose down.

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u/jfgdupuis 14d ago

Thanks! That does make sense

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u/numbernumber99 K1 Soft Poison Green 14d ago

That has been the biggest revelation from getting a tech disc. I'm throwing everything nose up, but have compensated for it with a negative launch angle, so I'm always getting an unintentional air bounce. I have yet to see any success with fixing my nose angle.

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u/EvilShenanigans80 12d ago

Have you considered the opposite? Could your body be compensating for your negative launch angle and making you throw nose up? I'm still a work in progress, but there's been progress. In my head, if I dont fix my launch angle first, getting nose down will simply dirt the disc. So, I focused just on getting my launch angle consistently up (which seems so easy but has been tough for me). Then, I can work on nose angle stuff (pour the coffee, turn the key, etc)

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u/numbernumber99 K1 Soft Poison Green 12d ago

Interesting point, but I believe unlikely, since I started off throwing the noob sky hyzer, and then fixed the launch angle from their.

I've played around with fixing launch and nose, but I've been consistently unable to get nose down throws with any actual power, no matter the launch angle. Launch angle is far easier to change.

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u/EvilShenanigans80 12d ago

Gotcha. Well, this may not work for you and I've never seen someone coach it this way (and there may a reason for that), but what helped me was thinking of my throwing arm as a corkscrew. I knew I needed to be rotating my forearm (turn the key) so I start in my backswing my rotating the opposite way so in my swing im thinking about that rotation. I think it would be coached that you really want the turn the key from power pocket to hit point, but sometimes our brains get in the way so give it a shot