How to Throw a Flat Bag - 3 Pro Tips to Fix your Bag Flight 

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How did ya get on?

Glad to help. Nice job on your channel!

Ditto

Great to hear, thanks for watching!

Check out our other videos with the pros, it starts with the grip. It takes a lot of trial and error to get a flat bag, stick with it and you will be smoking your buddies in no time.

The backswing varies greatly between players. Like the golf swing, the backswing can vary quite a bit as long as the release is good. Check out the Cornhole Clinic with Brennon Ballard on our channel, he discusses his backswing in that one.

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First step is download Scoreholio and subscribe to the package you need for throwing tournaments. Then, within the software, setup a test tournament. Get as familiar as you can with the tournament format you want to use ie blind draw, switcholio, fixed teams, round robin etc. Practice checking people in, keeping scores, understanding brackets, etc. The software will be your guide to directing your first tournament. Then invite some friends and throw your first tournament. You will learn a ton your first time and struggle with the learning curve, but it will be worth it. After that you will be on your way.

Its a combination of both. The bottom line is you need your hand to finish in an over-rotated position where your pinky is higher than your thumb.

@@CornholeNetwork thanks for answering. I think part of my problem is that I bend my elbow on the backswing and bend it before the release on occasion too. I sometimes I end with my fingers over the top. Palm facing down

@@michaelminnie210 I know exactly what you mean and that is very common. The proper bag release is not intuitive and takes a lot of good reps to ingrain to muscle memory. If you are too focussed on outcome to soon your form will break down and leave you with that elbow out, sideways hand position release. Your brain needs to learn to trust that the palm up release works better.

We have seen this often, the across the body miss. One thing we have seen work is to feel like your shoulders/chest stay square to the target as you release. If you reach toward the target too much and let your shoulders angle toward the target too much this across the body miss can become a problem. Try to square up your shoulders/chest to the target as you throw.

@Cornhole Network thank you I will try it out

That is what we call the dead cat bag. The problem with the dead cat bag is, like a knuckle ball, it will move through the air in an unpredictable way, be highly susceptible to wind, and react to the board in an unpredictable way. A spinning bag will cut through the air like a Frisbee , offer much greater accuracy, and slide up the board in a predictable way. You will be able to play to a certain level with a dead cat bag, but if you want to move into a more advanced game you will want to start spinning the bag.

This sounds like a trajectory/speed issue. You want to throw each bag at a height that it will stop before it shoots off the back of the board. You could also try a slower bag, but with any bag you should practice trajectory control to stop your bag on the board either at or slightly behind the hole. Good luck!

@@CornholeNetwork okay thank you. I already throw carpet bags, so I just need work on trajectory, I can do that. I'll work on that today

Sounds like a recipe for the next episode. But in our understanding, once you have your mechanics of a flat bag locked in, you can focus on accuracy, which just means practice hitting your targets with this new technique. With enough reps you should find it.

What helps me, focus on aligning your release point with your line of sight of the whole. Kinda like lining up your front and rear sights with your target. I keep my elbows in and tight, and emphasize a straight motion as I throw. I’ve also really been experimenting with how the bag lands and how it reacts to hitting other bags and really focusing on changing flight angles and rotation speed. If it’s spinning fast it’ll usually hit and kick. Spinning slower it’ll almost absorb another bag and push around it. Where your bag lands, the angle it lands and the spin speed seem to be the 3 biggest factors. Long read, but im really fascinated in the physics aspect of the game.

If any one is decent with animation, let’s get together and make a physics video !

@@koycarley1787 Check out Anthony Ayon's Cornhole Science channel for some physics.

I have something you can try that should sort you out. With the proper release you should put less strain on your shoulder because it happens much lower in the swing, but it all starts with the idea of not letting your hand/wrist hinge during the release. Imagine there is a straight board running down the top pf your forearm across your wrist and back of hand, holding all that in a line. Now you want to throw bags like that while smoothly rotating your forearm open to the target. If your wrist stays firm the bag will feel like it wants to go straight up, so you will need to release the bag lower in your swing to get it going toward the target, this is good. Keep practicing this until it become natural, holding the finish position to make sure your hand and wrist have not hinged (back of hand, wrist and forearms still in a straight line). At first this will feel very weird, but you should notice quickly that the bags will come out very flat. Soon you will start to notice when your wrist does break down leaving you with a sloppy inside tilted bag. Give it a shot and see what you think.

@@CornholeNetwork thanks for the reply. Definitely going to start practicing on the hand position, gripping the bag properly.

Sounds like you have a good trajectory.

Have a look at our Top Boards of 2022 video for a great list of boards for all budgets.

Trajectory control is essential regardless of what bag you are throwing. Try throwing a fast bag high enough that it stops before the hole. Once you can do that you can dial your trajectory to stop your bag wherever you want it.

Make your toss more of a rainbow

That's what we like to hear! Soon we gonna have to feature you in an episode.

Keep practicing, it’ll come!

There are a few reasons: first so you can control what side on the bag lands on the board, second so the bag tracks up the board in a predictable way, and third so the bag flies through the air with the precision needed.

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You would get annihilated by these flat baggers. They average around 10 points per frame. You average about 4.

I am no pro by any means , however I feel like if you’re right handed and your bag is going off left every time, it might mean that your release is a split second to late. Try releasing the bag a second earlier. Just remember the follow through !! :)

How dare you.

@@CornholeNetwork When I tried for three whole days and it made my gameplay even worse

@@Romanking10484 Sounds like a skill issue, get good kid.

3 days isn’t long enough to see the improvement. 😂😂😂😂 muscle memory takes time doofus

@@Romanking10484when learning the flat bag everything is going to get worse… it’s not easy to learn

If this can’t help you you may want to try a different game.

I love it! Great tips

Very helpful if you apply and practice.

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Idk what you are talking about I literally tried the 1st tip and immediately starting throwing a better bag. Very very helpful when you actually try what they are preaching in the video

Are you kidding? Cornhole is the best thing to come out of America in decades! Now get your bag flattened out.