I really thank you so much. I have to give a presentation in sports and I didn't know how to throw a frisbee. But you told it step by step so I could understand it. So thank you, you're doing a great job!
Yo, its crazy to watch that top down view, you can see the grass underneath the disc gets blown backwards as you release! That's just crazy to me. I guess every force has an equal and opposite force, eh?
Teaching this to high school students. I want to mention - as the cutter, notice when the mark is cheating a lot. When they do, it means you can get the disc to the break side much more easily. Which means your next pass will be a lot easier and easier to score - try to beat your defender to the open side by dragging them to the break side first if possible... - I don't know about brackets yet for defense on juniors - play differently on the trap side and flat side and middle - clear hard and as if you are cutting for the disc to keep your defender occupied. You have options. deep, 7 cut, Or to the stack in the middle somewhere. - teach OS reset cutting, especially the wheel to get the disc to the break side/flat side - trap side reset and rule of middle line for swing continuation going break side
sorry for the month late response but yes its very common. I throw pretty much exactly like rowan and just tore my UCL. Its all from overuse however and most times its just a UCL sprain. Best thing you can do is don't overthrow and when it hurts, stop. For continual pain you might need an MRI on your elbow to check if UCL is partially torn
I'm referring to the fact that the elbow / wrist are in front of the disc until the end, so it almost feels like there is some tension pulling the actual disc until the last second!
Any tips to queue leading with your elbow? I feel some stress on my shoulder and struggle to keep my forearm flat when leading with the elbow (not sure if that's just a lack of reps though) and so in games will subconsciously revert to leading more with the forearm
you can actually lead your middle finger with your wrist (same concept) to compensate for other inefficiencies in the chain. so focus on keeping the wrist 'loaded' 'cocked back' so there is range of motion there when the elbow finishes doing its job
This is an interesting question, because i am extremely inflexible. but this motion is smooth and pain free. I'd say don't do anything that hurts, but if you can get the disc to lag behind the elbow even a bit, should help.
The principle is the same but if you're throwing 15 yrds you don't want a huge windup that's able to be reacted to and hand blocked. Also just in general at the short to mid distances its worth it to practice throwing with just wrist snap so you can get your arm out as far as possible to get around the mark for different break throws. So you're still leading with your elbow like with the huck for your flick form, but you can kinda think about it like this. For the huck you're leading with your elbow bakcward and then forward and on a short range throw its leading with your elbow diagonally backwards away from your body and then diagonally forwards. And depending on how good your wrist snap is and how far you need to throw you are in some spectrum of that movement. Experimenting with different release points and the distance from your body you can throw from is something that's highly beneficial.
Lot's of good points in this thread! There are several important principles that overlap in short and max power throws. and ideally, when you work on the max power stuff, the shorter distance throws become much more efficient. Efficiency is so important because it reduces movements, leading to mistakes.
Hi Rowan! Enjoyed the video, enjoying the pod as well, keep up! Ngl I am hoping to see you on Disc In camp this year :) it would be a great way to get deeper into "European style" for u, and ofc for us to learn from u
