Hey nice, just in time. I live in Minnesota and the DG season is just around the corner. This will be a well needed refresher course for myself and the friends I frolf with.
The reason its so low compared to other sports is that disc golf is really still in its infancy. Over the last decade, especially the last 5 years, it has really exploded and started gaining popularity. In the future with the growth of the sport, sponsors will be attracted and there's your money maker on the professional level.
I love the Discraft videos, and I learn a lot, but I wish I played in the cow pastures you guys play in. Every course I play in Maine is in the woods and you're threading the needle through the trees. Think Shrwood Forest, and you got it.
Yeah, same in Asheville, NC, and we have the mountains to deal with too. My regular course is in a thick forest, over and around the top of a 3500' mountain. So yeah: trees, mountains, and wind all gang up on you, particularly in the fall and winter. I used to live in Maine, actually (in Limerick and then in Bar Harbor), as well as in NH (Laconia); I miss it all the time. Friggin wish I could still afford northern New England, but I'll be back one day. Anyway, I digress. I really just meant to say that I sympathize completely. :-D
Robbie Bratten, I swear this is the guy that dated my neighbor for a while. First person I ever went disk golfing with. Nice job going pro man! Thats pretty cool. Makes me want to go out and play more often. I have been playin out at bridgelands lately. Makes me want to play more now. I think the place he took me was called Agnes Moffitt Park. I know he practiced this sport a whole lot!
I watched Mike Robinson overthrow this hole at Am Nationals in 2005. He buzzed the guys on the next tee which is pretty far to the right of the basket, but he definitely had the distance.
@Lthies91 some are anny's some hyzers. because it's hard to see the angle of the disc on release the best way to tell is by looking at the plane of the shoulders on release and the follow through of the arm. When throwing a hyzer the chest leans forward and the shoulders are more parallel with the ground. Upon release the arm follows through towards the sky. Anhyzers are essentially the opposite.
I'm so happy. I'm 16 and I've been playing for 1 year and yesterday I measured one of my throws at a football field and it was 480'! I'll post a video as soon as I can.
@GodMara That 820' through was at Big D in the Desert in 2002, 3000 feet above sea level and with 25 mph winds. The best I've ever heard of on flat ground with no wind is just over 600'.
@AdnanCucak I've seen people play it but when I decided to throw a disc, I got hooked. You got to try it. Nothing like being outdoors and throwing a piece of plastic/rubber around lol!
@obtom1331 Its near brighton at a metropark called Kenzington, sadly this is the toboggan course and is only up 2 months of the year for the pro tournys
@Cramp213 Keep your front shoulder down. That will keep the disc down and flat. If you're playing in tight wooded courses, you don't want the disc raising and hitting branches. Even in an open course, elevation kills distance. Like they said in the video, smooth and clean, nice follow through will generate power.
@bd36576 the reason they are throwing anhyzers is because anhyzers have the most distance because they tend to glide more than hazers which normally fade to quickly
This is useful.... so, x step, center core (level arms across chest), and mad practice (visualizing it) and doing it does it. Well I'm off to Terrace Creek, to give it a throw. BTW being a newbie and all. what is ESP disc? cheers
I just started playing today, 20 minutes in and I lost my driver in a pond. So, went and picked up 2 more, a distance driver and a fairway driver...with that said. I'm finding the sidearm throw much easier and more accurate than I thought it would be and I've gotten more distance out of it than my "power" backhand. The longest hole where I was is 430 feet and my best backhand was just over halfway while my best sidearm was probably two-thirds of the way, hoping to get more accuracy and distance.
@H1shman This is fairly simplified, but basically forehand will get you more distance now, backhand will take longer to learn but you should steadily get more and more distance year after year as you improve. Having both shots can be really helpful, but I'd start by working on only one. Also, backhanding is a lot easier on your body, I know some guys who have blown out shoulders and elbows with big sidearm shots.
ok well my friend took me for the first time today i bought a valkarie for my fist disk and i did ok i can only get about 200' but im getting better i have a question does backhanding or forehanding it give you more distance.
If you want to throw as far as these guys --- heavy disc. That might not mean that you personally can throw a heavier one farther, but generally heavier discs (174-175g) are the way to go for long distance.
when ever i get my swing around when spin to release it always does a sort of a really slow anhyzer, is that normal or to be expected? i do it about with every disc
Sidearm is ok when you are starting. I threw all sidearm my first year. However, in terms of what is going to get you the most distance if you work at it, it is definitely backhand. I throw primarily all backhand now except for shots that I could use the sidearms fade on. Not to mention, sidearm is more damaging to your elbow and most elbow injuries happen do to excessive side arm throwing. Backhand will also be much more accurate when you work at it too.
Disc might be too light but a slight or even great anhyzer is how you generate serious distance. Virtually all of these guys are throwing anhyzers to some degree. Getting the disc to fade straight as possible gets distance.
@cjd891 yeah throw flat straight across ur body dont release high and tilted, also get a decent disc. dont throw trash. i dont know ur style of discs but try to start with something stable.
isn't anhyzer when the face of the disc is toward you when the disc leaves the hands? when they throw they have the outside edge pointed down. i thought the disc was turning right because of the stability of the disc. Even when you throw an overstable disc you can get it to turn right if you have a fast enough arm like these guys
Robbie is so light on his feet - his footwork is incredible. His body has so much momentum through his drive, it wants to keep spinning. With all that torque, he somehow manages to stay centered. Smh
Even though I can throw somewhat further with a backhand, side-arm throws are more accurate for me and get me where I need to be for the majority of drives an upshots. Proper technique dictates using more hip and less arm motion. (That's just nonsense about ruining your arm with side-arm throws.) An accurate, 300-foot, side-arm throw is good enough most times!
i just had a 10 dollar distance competition with the 2009 worlds 19 and under champion Nageeb Laborde. were both 16. I bombed 520 ft but that fool threw 550! I was like wtf?!?
@CatsTasteDelicious They show you what discs they are using before they throw. Robbie throws the ESP Predator. It has a stability rating of 2.5. So, very overstable. I think a couple of the other guys were throwing Surge's of some sort. They have ratings of 1.5 or 1.6 which is overstable. The Flash ESP has a rating of 1.5, overstable. FLX Avenger is 1.8, overstable. The Surge 150 is 0.5, which is barely overstable. Pulse ESP is 1.8
my roommates younger brother just turned 15, and he can throw a 500, not very accurate though. he averages 400. i can throw a 550 backhand but not accurate. i drive sidearm avg around 450
I can't seem to get past 350 feet on my best drive i made a video of me driving in slow motion its on my page its called "brian couple of fun days in slow motion disc golf" if u guys can watch and tell me what i could do better be great thanks
me and my friends met up with a group that had a 12 year old withm and he was whoopin ther ass hah its good to c younger ppl get into the sport (im talking like im old hah)
The types of plastic you can choose from are very similar in performance and durability in both cases. And when it comes to discs and shapes it, In my opinion, all comes down to choice, what works for you and ALOT of psycology ;) Both Disccraft and Innova make awesome discs.
Not saying this is a necessity in the sport of disc golf, but any sport you do can be enhanced with powerlifting. Distance, accuracy, pretty much anything in disc golf can be improved by a few power cleans here and there =D.
