Back Leg Dos and Don'ts 

Every video seems to be perfectly timed with what I'm working on. Also love your coaching style. Concept, reason, feel, drill.

Running out of coil time is my middle name. Appreciate this video, Josh and Mikey!

Aw, man, second...lol Yeah, from a softball coaching aspect, we stopped coaching the back leg twist (squash the bug) years ago. It just isnt effective.

Always good to remind about this! Cheers, men!

Pushing with the back leg fixed my foot work, reduced hip pain (as opposed to letting the back leg just drag behind) and finally got me consistently over 500' with minimal upper body effort. Just a quick push, no twisting or squishing. I was stuck at 450' for a couple of years because of RU-vid coaches teaching to just run agaist the brace, as in this video. I recommend watching Nick Krush's videos on brace.

Too good. I've been focusing on standing backhand drives, I never knew about that aspect of the back leg. I plan to try it out this evening. This guy is now an Intermediate Patreon 👊 Proud to be supporting the OT fam.

I'm in the weight shift camp. Working with your video, when to step lead heel down. loading weight on back leg till hip locks, goes from up to down, heel down then shifting weight forward without pushing off back leg.

I used to prioritize a perpendicular left foot on the X step; Until I prioritized hip angle, then it became just X step and maintain hip tilt till it drops on the reach back, the lead hip. up up down up

Love this take! Had a similar thought a few months ago. Thanks for the video!

As someone who finds themselves throwing a lot of hyzer (20%-25%) without putting any thought into my release angle, I think it's time to look at footing and figure if that's contributing! Thanks guys!

Very helpful and insightful content as always! I focused on not pushing off my back leg in my latest fieldwork session, and found that it really helps me get a consistent plant with my front leg (resulting in more consistent power). It helps so much with overall timing as well. Thank you!

Good video. To add to the first question, it seems like McBeth kind of pushes from the back leg when going slowly instead of gliding. He seems to kind of slowly go through the x-step and end up in a position where he kind of balances on his back leg. He pushes off from it more like doing a standstill. So "it depends" is a good point, but I just wanted to throw this thought also in the air, where it seems to be used differently. I also might be wrong, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

I have a feeling that this video was created because of my question on the live stream. LOL Thanks for this!

I understand what you’re saying but if a disc golf throw is in a lot of ways parallel to a baseball hitters swing, hitters definitely drive off the back leg. Can you imagine if they didn’t? All arm swings which would never get out of the infield. I understand they are in disc golf terminology effectively doing a stand still as you put in the category of when you do drive off the back leg, but I just don’t think the disc community as a whole has come to any coherent consensus on back leg drive. Yes in theory you’re getting all the momentum you need off the run up, but I would bet you ask 100 pros, particularly those that are not 6’5 who mostly don’t have to obey any of the rules of good form to throw far compared to us normal sized folks, and you’d get any of a handful of answers. “Do you drive off the back leg on distance shots?” “Not at all” … “a little” … “I don’t think about it” … and “definitely” I am however positive they don’t focus on how their leg swings or balances them, unless they’re sumo legging somehow, which they’re pros and don’t do that. They just stay in balance like a hockey player does the necessary things to stay on their skates and don’t think about how they do it.

I love that you mentioned you shouldn't need to be pushing off the back leg on a run up. I think people are working way too hard when the momentum is already there for you. I also think the standing on one leg drill would help a lot of people. Reminds me of DG Spin Doctor's "Post Man Drill." Also very effective. Great stuff.

Epic. Such a good coach

How do you come up with this stuff, Josh? That counter balance weight exercise is so Zen

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Thanks!

I’ve been arguing that no pros “push off the cross step” for years without much success this community has been stuck in a rut and I’m happy to see people charting a new course away from it.

We all learned from Dana vichi, he moves in slow motion, now Buhr, redalan, the Robinsons all seems to be creeping into there drives Everyone wants to sprint like Conrad, so difficult to make adjustments at full speed.

In other words, pushing off the back leg may increase distance but I'm going to lose discs. To me, I just know that's not what I need now. I need control

You keep saying perpendicular, I’ve never tried to put my rear foot at a 90 degree angle to my front foot. Do you mean parallel?

Now that I've seen this video, I'm changing my channel name to "Glide and Slide" Disc Golf (GAS DG)™

V good

Get Mikey to do a distance competition against the Slingshot guy who does that back leg stuff.

First view, comment and like! Boom!

Players talk about getting your hips into the drive, could it be that the back leg turns as a result of those driving with your hips? For instance Albert Tamm drive from gkpro. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hIrWglI4WQU.htmlsi=UJ-z5HFHXxGd4Q2n&t=31

Yall need to just come out and say it... Sling shot is full of shit