How to Throw Farther Forehands in One Week 

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I went to a Scott Stokely clinic and my biggest takeaway was that everyone is either a windmill or a pendulum person (aka loading up over the top or loading up down and around). I had been doing a windmill and he switched me to a pendulum and I instantly gained around 50 feet by the very next throw dude is legit a miracle worker. One extra detail is that for a pendulum person start with the top of the disc facing outwards and for a windmill start with the back of the disc facing outwards

The best thing about Trash Pandas videos is you can really see how much this guy loves the sport.

Use that back leg to explode through your follow through. It gets tied in with loading and engaging your hips but the added weight transfer really helps with speed and follow through.

The biggest thing that has helped me is "pinching" the disc. Everyone talks about the different grip options, but only Bens Big Drive talked about making sure that you're pinching your fingers against each other on your grip. This got me ultimately to end up changing my grip from two finger stacked grip where I had a hard time pinching the disc with my thumb and index finger and I switched to the Paul McBeth style grip where I now pinch my thumb on the disc against my index with my middle finger as the fulcrum point and man what a difference. The disc no longer comes out early and nose up every time. Now, I'm going to implement the things you discussed in this video with what I'm already doing and hopefully go from my max of about 300' of forehand distance to closer to 350-375'. Thanks for the help!

Note how you are always falling over toward the right tee side in your finish, so you aren't shifting or getting balanced or braced up properly on the front leg. You can also loosen up and lag your arm/disc more into a wider release like Long Toss Drill, you kind of keep your arm/disc more retracted in and tight like t-rex. I'd link some vids, but youtube usually deletes comments with links.

Engaging the hips helped me the most, standstills and run ups

Thanks for referring to a clip from our channel! I'm absolutely loving your video as I am now working to improve MY side arm! lol

Great vid and the innova corvette beast forehand disc for me

New to disc golf. I barely get to 200 forehand. I'm 6 foot 4inch 220 lbs and not on bad shape... This video makes me feel I can throw further... Without muscling it. Your form looks effortless and now I'm excited to practice. Cheers

The biggest thing that helped me was focusing on the pressure in my middle finger as I released the disc so I could add more spin to the throw. I.E more spin equates to more accuracy and distance.

One way to improve distance and save your shoulder and elbow is learning sidearm pitching mechanics. They throw 90mphish for years. Also fielding a ground ball and throwing to first can simulate easy shuffle footwork.

The feeling I imagine you have at 10:15 is one of my favorite feelings. “Oh that felt good, that looked good, and it’s absolutely repeatable

The best tip I got was to actually lean my body over my shot slightly so that I'm not throwing full sidearm. It was from a guy who used to be a baseball player and his pitching coaches used to have him throw with 3/4 arm position. Translating to a disc having to be flat he actually leans (I do too now) over his disc so that the disc is flat but his arm is 3/4. I was throwing almost 100 feet further after just a few days switching from fully sidearm to 3/4.

So stoked about this video! I've been primarily a rhfh player, and throw 330 with both a sidewinder and a katana, this will hopefully get my range up with bigger discs!

x step just like you do back hand... only in reverse...follow through too. youll get more distace with flexibality and following through. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.

The thing that unlocked the forehand power for me was when I started to show the top of the disc to the target look at some of the top forehand distance throwers Nate sexton, Chris Clemons, and Austin Hannom. Now I know Chris and Austin have baseball backgrounds as do I so that might be correlated but I found that allowed be to put more power on it and still come out clean. Also mini tip of bending over the disc and releasing it lower. 🤷‍♂️Hope that those might help either way love the channel and purpose keep doing what you are doing.

Hey Jesse, you need to reach out to Scott Stokely, to show you the way! He has written the book on how to throw side arm. And it would be a great RU-vid collaboration together for the both of you! Thank Jesse for this video!

I have the tip for your 400ft, but be carful it's going to add a lot of torque so. Warm up! If you look at your non throwing arm it's all over the place. What you need to do is have more of leading arm in the swing like a tennis player serving a ball, the arm will up to set the ball and then start the lead of the rotation, this it a little like what you should do but use your elbow, act like your going to hit something behind you, that is going to attack you ninja style. When you get the timing down this will help you get more of the whip and snap you need for that 400ft mark. GL, and I hope this help you.

One thing that I really focused on when I was learning.my forehand game was when exploding with the hips I make sure they come all the way through and finish with my momentum still moving forward. In your shots you come through the hips but when you see your leg finish out to the right like that I feel like your pulling your energy your creating away from the shot. When you see a baseball pitcher throw they explode and land forward same thing to me translated to the forehand shot. So basically I'm suggesting trying to get those hips through and not really anchor yourself to the side when you follow through might help a but. Hopefully that helps and love the content

I am a beginner at frisbee, have about6 weeks of practise so far. My best forehand throw distance is about 45 feet. Aiming for double that. PS: I am also legally blind

Thanks for your tips! I watched two of your videos and they are great! I used to only backhand and added forehand mostly for approach shots. Learning proper form, I now can throw as far or farther than backhand. This is especially helpful as I move up to 60’s division next year. Thanks!

This was nice to watch. My forehands turn into a hot mess when I try to put real power in it. They frequently come out on an extreme hyzer angle. So far, I only really use forehand for utility/scramble cause it's the only distance I can control the angle but I'm slowly upping the distance at which I'll use it. Gonna be putting some serious work into my forehands soon.

Love the video, and I have some forehand tips! I’m no pro, I’m terrible at backhand and putting, but I do have a decent forehand. Here’s some context. I consistently throw 420ft forehands. My farthest throw on flat ground with no wind was 485ft. My farthest throw on flat ground with a tail wind was 500 ft (20ft past hole 14 at Bird’s Nest). The most important and most difficult thing to get right with the forehand throw has to do with the shoulder, upper arm, forearm, wrist, and fingers. YES, a good run up and a loaded-spring-like hip rotation add distance - a lot of distance… BUT those things aren’t the basis of a powerful forehand. Purely to illustrate my point, I can throw over 300ft sitting down. Here’s what I think about before every power forehand throw. The first thing I think about when I’m on the tee-box (or in the fairway) is my grip. It’s super important to have a tight grip that causes the disc to press hard against the webbing between your thumb and pointer finger. I also lick and dry my finger tips to increase friction as any slippage greatly reduces distance and accuracy with the forehand throw. Everyone’s hands are different, so it’s a good idea to experiment with different grips - I prefer the power grip. The next things I think about before throwing far is simultaneously disc release angle and disc flight path. I don’t consciously think about my form when throwing forehand - which I know is next to impossible when trying to improve forehand form. I definitely agree with throwing under stable discs to achieve max distance. At 5280ft elevation my go-to max distance distance right now is the shryke. How I personally developed a good forehand - I grew up throwing ultimate frisbees forehand. I took an ultimate frisbee on hikes, to school, church - basically everywhere. Throwing ultimate frisbees countless times allowed me to transition effortlessly into disc golf, providing me with both power and touch. Obviously, there’s lots of ways to practice forehand form, but one of the easiest and most fun ways is just playing catch with an ultimate frisbee. Learning how to throw an ultimate frisbee forehand very hard without it turning over will make throwing under stable disc golf discs seem effortless. Throwing forehand is a mechanical skill, so practicing the forehand motion in as many ways as possible will go a long way - skipping rocks, playing ping pong, throwing baseballs, and so on.

Awesome video once again! The noise at the end could be due to a loose connection or faulty cable. You could add a small compressor on the audio file to fix what you've already recorded.

Biggest thing for me to get distance is to have a good extension on the arm so I can be smooth coming through and not put unecessary strain on the arm. Comparing myself to most others out on the course I probablly have a very slow arm speed but I think the long reach gives more time to accelerate so it dosent look as violent, and sure dosent feel violent. Also really over emphasising the lull the curtain movement with the off arm gets the shoulders away from the target and loads them up. For me a sustainable form comes first. Getting distance is nice but being able to throw 100m everyday is alot more fun then having 150m but then shortly give up the sport.

Independent of what you already went over in terms of using your legs/more under stable discs the thing that I think really translates into more distance for me is rotations you put on the disc/decreasing off axis torque. This is reaaally important when getting distance as the more rotation you get on the disc the more resistant it is to fading back out at the end of its flight if you’re throwing a full distance flex shot. What I do to get more spin is simple. Just work on being able to throw my understable putters with good spin and not letting them wobble at all. When you work on your release like this with a putter when you pick up a driver the release will carry over and you’ll be able to get waaay cleaner snap on the disc. Cleaner snap=more rotation and more distance. I also think this is a big reason a lot of players struggle to throw forehands farther because they go straight to overstable discs and use them to mask their bad form/poor release and they have tons of OAT and lack of spin in their throw. Also I should point out what makes a good release which is basically all shoulder, elbow, and wrist. Power comes from the legs but the release in a forehand is all from the arm/wrist. I practice keeping my wrist cocked leading with the elbow and just throwing nice and easy shots feeling each one come off the tip of my middle finger cleanly. The further I throw the more I use my legs until I’m up to about 250-300 feet which is about my max usable distance with a putter forehand without burning it over. The whole time I’m just focusing on snapping the disc, making sure there isn’t OAT on it/wobble, and that I’m using my hips more and more when I’m throwing further.

Awesome video going to try some of these tips thanks

As a forehand dominant player, amazing video for all skill levels!!!

I use the Nate Sexton crow hop on long forehand drives and just a regular walk up when i need more control

Great video as always! Definitely gonna give these tips a shot! Hoping to be able to consistently hit 250!

Thanks man I am still fairly new and cannot throw forehand or backhand very far. I have been seeing progress since the beginning of this season but this video has moved me to take one week and try something similar to what you have done here. Hopefully I can gain a little distance and maybe even develop something that resembles a forehand!

Right now I throw an old first run vulcan for a hyzerflip and I throw a rive and a ballista pro. What I do on an over stable disc is hold it slightly nose down but when i throw right it I put a lot of rist action and lift the nose into a slightly nose up and turn over on it the disc then it turns left for most of flight then fades out.

I wanna see you try the pitcher load out in your next video. And I mean perpendicular stance to the target, load out as if you were trying to get a 90mph fast ball with plant leg swinging across body to help generate rotational power. Exactly like mlb fastball

Nice job

Thanks for the tips. I suffered from shoulder impingement for a couple of years, which limited the forward movement of the sidearm throws. Got that corrected and now I am ready to try your suggestions.

honestly the Eagle tip of cocking back your wrist was probably my biggest help. I would encourage you to work on that. The Nate Sexton hop, havent tried it but i want to. I love baseball and played it a lot in my youth. A lot of outfielders coming in on a fly ball or a grounder will catch the ball and hop on their back foot and throw themselves forward while throwing the ball, it generates a much stronger throw. You probably already knew that.

Your starting point is me to a T! I forehand a Champion max weight Ape 350, my other forehand discs are champion firebirds and start destroyers. I will be watching this video many times. Thanks for what you do!

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One tip that helped me was my buddy said push the disc before I snap my wrist. Before I was all wrist with no accuracy, engaging my elbow to push first gave me distance and accuracy cause I was able to slow down my throw and stay relaxed without muscling the disc. Also the stomp, on up shots or stand stills this has improved my distance, ill take one step back so I can turn my hips and stomp my lead foot to engage my whole body.

I struggle to throw a forehand with any kind of power. I flip everything over bad, even my most stable disc's thrown on heavy hyper flip up and over. I'm going to do some field work soon and try different discs, but I can't imagine my understable discs doing so hot.

So interesting! Shoutout to Skill Share!

Best tip for me was to get rid of the stacked finger grip. Instead, tuck the index finger just “below” the middle finger, with both of those fingers on the rim. Feels more natural and gets the disc out on an angle that seems better, and reduces disc wobble.

The squeaky audio was from a cell phone near the recording device. Cheers.

Best thing for me was to find the right grip, for me it ended up being a one finger grip, as it was the only way for me to get a clean release on my forehand throws. Coming from a baseball background, I have always used a crow hop (Sexton hop as you refer to it) as it is just second nature for me now. Now I just need to get my backhand distance up to snuff with my forehand throws!

I'm quite the opposite my forehand is 420+ but my backhand is about 330

I've been trying to use forehand more, but mostly as utility. Instead of relying on crazy understable to hook right, I've been using over stable with a forehand. Never measured my distance before or went for max distance but I definitely want to check it out now.

You'll get there man. I've been playing for 13 months and throw farther forehand than backhand. I threw a 409 ft standstill with nuke yesterday in tournament. I suck in tournaments which is why I shank 50% of my drives... I think I see the last bit that will get you over 400 at this altitude! Bringing your upper body into you max distance drives. Right when you engage your hips you dip and drive your shoulder through while still keeping elbow first and that big snap at the end. Trying to finish perfectly square might be taking a touch of momentum away at the very end. My Right foot finishing 20-30 degrees past square on full power. You gotta let er rip in this this air. Ps got my first black ace in that tournament lol 391' with a jomez nuke forehand. I've played 89 rounds this year in the metro area and would love to throw a round sometime.

Good video and congratulations on your improvement, but a quick comment. Telling someone to engage their hips isn't exactly telling what engaging the hips means. Do you twist them? push them forward? recoil them during upper body rotation? So this video tells us what you did, but not HOW you did it. I'd like to know . . . .

Noice improvement. We have a similar tale other than my backhand kind of stalling at 330 as well after being forehand dominant for years. Now I'm just not sure what I am any more beyond mediocre at both 🤣

Heyy Jesse.. I finally got your plastic, thanks man.. So when it comes to forehands, I learned a lot from Wysockis video.. it’s called pig tutorial, where his feet is set up like a clock..

My favorite part: coffee!

I am excited to implement the hip mobilization. I too can throw just about as far stand still as off the tee (yes run ups should only be used for teeing). My method has been to learn to control my most flippy disc sidearm and then transfer that smooth form with power to my understable drivers. Allowing myself to trust the flip up turn over to get me easy distance. My favourite disc for this kind of shot is my Sphinx.

And on the Sixth day Jesse rested and it was good

The video is great. My one critique is to get a better coffee grinder.

In baseball it's called a crow hop. You preload your rear leg or push off leg for 10%more free energy. Another 10%is the wrist. I throw forehand because I played baseball. Everyone who played with me starts to crow hop every long drive it works.

Suggestion to you good sir.. Please put on screen the distance of each shot at the time of shot..ty

I’ve seen videos to throw under stable disc to throw further backhand but not for forehand. When I throw an under stable disc it just fades left the whole time “sidewinder” with way less distance. I throw an under stable it goes straight and turns right slightly at the end like When I throw my axiom disc distance driver “DEFY” side arm it goes perfectly straight and finishes slightly right averaging 350 to 400 every time unless the dreaded 🌳comes in play. It has the same flight #’s as a wraith, but the wraith curves left then comes hard right with a skip with less distance. I’m guessing I should put maybe some hyzer on the sidewinder?🤷‍♂️

Do not worry I can't even throw a Valkyrie or a less gram DX Dragon forehand or even the most US discs like a Wedge or others I do with almost everything a forehand flip to roller off to the right after 50-75 feet on driving ones. I can't do forehands past approach at 50--75 feet and in for some reason and have done a putter forehand for a turbo replacement since I can't do a normal turbo due to hand size. I sucked at the forehand after I grew from 5 foot to 5 foot 2 my current height in high school, I could no longer do them and did a turn and burn but I have this amazing turnover to the left or a power left shot I can use with a Star Archon or even an OS mold like the Champion Destroyers if I release later then what most people do. The correct way for the power left turning shot is I power up as if a Distance Driver on a DX Dragon and release only a tad late for a sharper US shot or use my Z Archer for this sweeping shot that just gets more and more US fade as the shot goes on.

In baseball, speed is gained from arm flex…. Pitchers long toss, 180’+ to increase flexibility before pitching. I wonder if a round of long toss would benefit?

One thing that really helped me was in a foundation disc golf video. They basically said cock your hand and arm like Adam hammes or Paul McBeth. I started doing that and it got me a more consistent power. It helped me learn I wasn’t fully reaching back every time I threw.

Pls make a lego disc soon🙏

Ha...right...you think we believe you actually took a rest day? LOL! Was probably hard for you to sit that long without working...the entire 13 seconds. HAHA! You rock man, cheers and keep up the great work! Lean into your audience, many of us want to get involved with you and have talent that we can share...not me...just saying there are some people! But I'm all IT/Security, let me know if you need anything.

One thing that helped me was getting low and finishing foward vs up like a lot of people do

Would the disc choice be the opposite for a leftie? Overstable/stable instead of understable/stable?

Hey does anyone have any tips or tricks for learning to throw off hand quickly? I had a severe elbow injury several years ago and as a result driving backhand is extremely painful. I want to have options to be able to throw different directions.

I started to try 360s a few months ago… and although it’s not as accurate I consistently throw 50 feet farther doing that than my normal run up. My normal forehand is 350-375 while my 360s go over 400 feet most of the time

I don't really have a tip for forehand because I'm still working on mine. But it would be interesting if you touched on why my arm hurts so much throwing forehand. It's probably something yo do with my form, but I haven't figured out why yet. If you or anyone else has had this problem, please share some insights on what can help take the pain way. Thanks! Awesome video!

What's your favorite course in CO??

When measuring a throw on UDisc does anyone know if the + whatever number down in the corner is supposed to be added to the number for accuracy? I never counted it on there but have always wondered what it was for

I came from ultimate, and i had a forehand only player tell me to just grip tighter, and i immediately gained 50 feet.

What discs did you find that worked best for you?

Scott Stokley says to abbreviate your follow through to generate more spin on the disc

Just apply a low-pass filter on the audio when you get that high ringing sound and it'll knock out the squeakiness. Are you using a RODE mic? I think that can happen when the batteries on the mic get low. :) Love the video! I'm excited to try this out for myself!

How far did the putter go

Quick thought. It seems like you're not getting full hip/torso rotation because you are planting into your heel. As a result, it looks like your body weight can't come forward finishing the rotation. Try transferring your weight forward onto your forefoot during the throw, just like throwing a ball.

The only warning i will give for eagle’s cocking your wrist back as far as you can is that i tore my tfcc in my wrist from playing this way too much. 10 years later and it still hurts to go bowling. Please remember to stretch your wrists and use max power sparingly

I find that my best forehands come when I throw them backhanded 😂😂😂 just kidding (but seriously)

Here for Panda Pete.

Hey Jess can you elaborate on your finger form? I’ve been throwing in the 350-375 range and when I changed my finger position I gained about 30 feet or so. (When I don’t shank it) thanks bud keep up the great work!

I can't even reach the minimum you throw and that bums me out. But I can throw with right AND left hands. Guess that's something....

Forehand, what's that?! Hahahaha. I just started throwing a baby flick for 100-150' approach shots. No way I'm ready for forehand bombs. Baby steps!

I wear Altra Lone Peak 5s. What model were you wearing on day 4? Thanks for another great video.

Can you describe perhaps what was different in this engagement of the hips?

Great video I will use this … but question… how long did you actually rest on day 6 … some how I don’t believe you rested that long 😊

I thought the recommendation was to throw slower, under-stable discs, but the 2 at the end that you threw were high speed, over-stable discs. Was that recommendation just for beginners?

I can throw sidearms 400ft with a a Firebird sidearm, and I’m 38. 🤷‍♂️

I would love to work on my forehand more, but I find that even after just a handful of forehands in a row, I start getting bad elbow pain. I'm only 26 so I'm not like...thaaat old haha. In tournaments where I have to rely on forehand for 36 holes a day, it can get bad enough to be bothering me between shots. Weirdly, it usually doesn't hurt when I'm throwing it, but after the fact, between holes. My best guess is tennis elbow (disc golfer's elbow??) , but I'm not sure. I can't tell if it's just something that will get better with time and with more throws, or if there's something else at play, which would make working on it more and more only exacerbate the problem. Anybody have any ideas or things I can work on for this?

My biggest takeaway from this was skillshare.

No index finger. So I’m kinda three fingers throwing machine now

Check out one of the greatest arms in history, Ichiro Suzuki - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1rA0OVXpdLU.html I use a similar x-step to his, which is funny because as a kid I played left field in little league and regarded Ichiro as a god. Our coach would always refer to his iconic throw to 3rd base throw, funny how that stuff stays with you.

I can’t throw a forehand I use both hands back hand.

Right from the start of the video I was saying "why are you stopping your follow through?" Let that right leg come around in front of you.

Question if I can throw a destroyer 400 ft forehand should I try a more understable disc for more distance? And how do you get the disc to not flip too much

Step one for me would be throw a forehand period 🤣😭. I did manage my farthest backhand today at around 440.

i beleive i can through a further 4hand than u

Tip 1. Focus, Aim, Breathe then Shot Tip 2. Grow younger, or adapt to an aging body. Tip 3. Believe in yourself. Tip. 4 Avoid negative thoughts.

I'm going to have to start unfollowing all of you Disc Golf pages. We get stuck with stupid ads from youtube...we don't need stupid ads for sponsors.

Wait what, people throw forehand with understable discs!?