How to throw FURTHER with the POWER POCKET! | Disc Golf Basics 

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Im not much of a smooth discgolf person but my friends tell me I have a smooth brain, so atleast I have that going for me.

This is EXACTLY where I am at in my disc golf journey. After a gauntlet of tournaments I'm taking 2 months off and starting over with intense focus on step-by-step technique. It is so difficult, good luck Jonathan!! Here's to hoping we both come out better on the other side.

The best piece of advice I ever got was to get as loose and numb as you can, and then get looser. I started trying to become too loose, just to see how far I could take it before it ruined my shot, and that's when I started getting real power and snap off the disc

What is the power pocket and where can I buy that disc? /sarcasm.. Great video yet again, will probably help me reach the illusive 130m mark!

Definitely where I struggle the most, after almost 3 years, is trying to relax. My best shots are my slowest and most relaxed, but it is STILL totally counter intuitive. I try and focus on thinking of my hips rotating my shoulders and let my arm be as loose as possible, while still gripping the disc. Let’s get smooth and fast together everyone!🇸🇪🇨🇦

This is the video I've needed, I muscle the disc, and haven't figured out how to engage my legs. To the field!

The way I imagine it is like when you spin in an office chair and bring your legs in it speeds you up, and when you extend your legs the spinning slows down. Driving form is basically spinning in the chair 180 degrees. You start with your legs extended and then the power pocket is the speed gained from tucking everything in. Then you use the speed you gained from bringing your weight to center in the 'power pocket' and extend the arm, capturing the speed you made while tucked.

Thank you, Jonathan, Johannes and Lat64! Jonathan's humility and readiness to learn, combined with Johannes' straightforward instruction always seem to make those concepts in disc golf I struggle to learn easier to understand! I went to the park today and feel like I finally could get some power in my backhand throws from my lower body vs. my weak noodle arms. Keep these tips coming!

"Can you hear this"............"NO" 😆 Always love your videos and I have the same issue, feels smooth until I add the disc!

Can latitude 64 put some field work on the site. Id pay good $$$$? #eagleric

Don't throw full speed without weight in your hand. It can cause injury on tendons. Like a baseball pitcher uses a towel drill. Use a t shirt or hand towel it will snap as a bonus.

You guys absolutely hit it (with a nail?) with this one. 👍👍 But no matter how much you tell this to yourself (and other people) the slowing down and relaxing your arm part is not easy. Good luck for everybody in learning and also remembering this when throwing the disc. I've been learning this sport about 7 years and I'm still too fast with my hand waaaay too often.🙃

I’ve never been able to find someone to explain it this way. I always ask “am I supposed to try real hard with arm” but no one can really answer. So this was super helpful. Explaining it to be more like a slingshot and where to do that is helpful. You guys are my favorite disc golf RU-vid channel. Very entertaining and educational!

holding your disc *really* loosely and going through the throwing motion like you do in your kitchen, then tightening your grip RIGHT at the end and letting the disc rip will help your body understand how to throw more relaxed.

This video represents my biggest sruggle.

Regarding "Soft kittens". I have a keychain with a fluffy unicorn on my discgolf bag that hangs there to remind me to keep it slow and smooth and not being too stiff/jerky. Maybe find a keychain with a kitten and hang it on your bag to help you with that mindset Jonathan :o).

The best bromance in disc golf! Excellent video again J & J!

Your timing is off by you trying too hard. Compare Johannes and you in slow motion. Johannes has much better reach back, you try to get to the throw too early, which makes your reach back much shorter. It's like his reach back "touches the back wall" before starting the throw, yours does not. So slow down and concentrate to extend the reach back all the way back.. and RELAX!!

Thank you so much for saying, "Whip it good"!!! It would have bugged me for days if one of you didn't say it. tytyty

Great video Johannes & Jonathan! For all y'all who struggle with throwing smooth and using the power pocket - you can do it! For me, practicing standstills & runups SLOWLY in the kitchen we're what helped. Y'all got this.

I love that Jonathanisms have leaking into my game. Now when I throw the disc well, I say “oh, it did the thing.” Thanks for helping me be able to “do the thing”.

Come on Johnny, loosen up and whip the disc. Thanks for my fuse, great disc

You should try to take a larger last step. It looks like you are abbreviating your step into the plant. If you make that step a bit longer it will make a much more natural weight shift and make it easier for your hips to turn without forcing it.

Noticeably better timing on your “after” clip. Keep at it!!

You stay smooth when you are happy and don´t try too much! So have a fun! The disk just follow your body, not your hand! But yeah, it is hard! Last two weeks are first smooth throws for me for this summer... Same happened last year also at autumn... Maybe I should start my diskgolf season at may... no too gold. You see my problem... But getting relaxed takes time to get it right...

I can also suggest watching slingshot discgolf..good explanations on how to be soft and smooth

very strong.. handsome legs.. lets use them.. LMAO love you guys!!

The random dance off when 50 Cent came on was incredible. Thank you for this video! It touches on one of the bigger struggles in my drives and approaches, and gives me a way to work on it! I can't wait to try them!

5:15 me as well when i watch your videos Jonathan.. me as well...

Man, I hate Power Pockets. They're always hot as hell at the ends and still cold in the middle.

You need to try the Twirly Bird! Think it’d really help you loosen up.

Hi! Love your videos!😍 could you please show us how to throw a good forehand!

My Jonathan special edition 179g orange Fuse came in the mail today. The stamp artwork is lovely, thank you.

a trick that has helped me be smooth is to throw the Champion max weight MAKO3 the reason is IF you throw this disc hard at all it will turn over and burn into the ground you basically have to throw it like youre trying to lay up a putter from 40 ft away very soft but let your run up and reach back add the distance not your strength so grab yourself a MAKO3 and try to smoothly throw it on flat angle nose down and it will GLIDE 275-300ft like a LAZER with zero fade and that tells you that you just threw it perfectly this disc is a form helping disc imo and i can throw my drivers with way more accuracy now!

I wish i could rotate when i throw i'm as stiff as a scarecrow.

I hate it when my shoulder goes "what up, doe?"

En klejmår med 2 i fade? Skön video gubbar. Stå hemma med dinglande armar och avslappnade armar och rotera höfterna så kommer fröken snärt på besök ska du se :) GoGo powerpocket!! Du är duktig

I have a problem being stiff also, i can be loose without a disc, but as soon as i pick one up i get stiff as a crowbar 🤷‍♂

Nice Devo reference ! Even to this day, I have the lyrics to that song totally memorized. Not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing......

I'm in the same boat as you. I can be fluid as you can, when we don't have a disc in our hand. We can let the arm be a whp and it looks great. Put a disc in our hand and we stiffen. up and that whip is really hard to obtain. So def in the same boat. Would like to know how to disconnect that stiffness when holding a disc firm.

Pretty sure Jonathan didn’t get the “whip it good” reference. Thanks to both of you for helping me in my disc golf journey! 3 months in now.

got my first order of discs ever from you this week, and just cant wait to trow them slowly now. those videos are so wholesome, the humour is always pure and there´s just no negativity. keep it up jonathan and the whole team

I came for the Scandi Death Metal, but stayed for the lessons. Seriously, this has helped me think differently and more consciously about how I throw frisbees. Thank you for this :)

5:56, that’s a crazylaugh.

this is what I'm struggling with too, I feel like I'm constantly pulling the disc right because I'm letting my arm get ahead of everything else

The power pocket with the Jonathan stamped Fuse has helped me reach 1,000m distance. It can do the same for you.

You need shoes with better grip

This is great. After years of playing wrong I started from scratch. It is very difficult to unlearn what I was doing. I’ve been doing much better, my distance has improved greatly. Unfortunately my scores haven’t but it’s only a matter of time. Jonathan and Johannes thank you so much. Love you guys!!!

slow is smooth and smooth is fast

I think I'm probably the stiffest disc golfer in the world 😂. I do have some spinal limitations, but I try my best! You can get it, Jonathan!

Pro Tip… Relax 😉

YOU ASK HOW TO BE SMOOTH - you never use arm muscles dont even grip it hard enough to feel forearm muscles tighten.. this and look up Dan Beto Drill 2.0 that drill will help you find the power pocket timing!

I still have a long journey to work on form, it has helped me to imagine driving with my shoulder, not my arm or hand. If you time the drive with your shoulder, it should sync with the rest of the power your lower body is producing. Imagine a horizontal string pulling your shoulder forward after the reach back. Just be as relaxed as a puppet and slow it down if need be. I have trouble with trying to rip through the disc after the pull back and It’s throwing the whole sync process off. Gonna have to try some field work at 20% power and just try and get into that power pocket flow. Also be conscience of leaning to forward or back. A good visual of a a hoola hoop around you.

Jonathan! Remember: Soft kittens, fluffy pillows! :D I am not smooth by any means, I am stiffer than a rusty old kylskåp. Watching you is an inspiration, keep it up!

I need a latitude64 support group. I fear my legs arent sexy enough tho... Excessive libation typically makes me smoother, but then my give a damn seems to wander. Thanks for the vids guys!

Keep working on it. I found it this year and I have been playing since 2014. Repetition until it becomes completely natural is next.

I am like you jonathan. Except I dont have muscles, or charisma. Everyone are saying the same thing, but you need to hear all the different ways to find one that clicks with you. I prefer that instead of "get disc to power-pocket then pull pull power-powah!", I like to think of it as accelerating, instead of power-pulling. my brain and body accepts that much better than power-pull. I also heard another thing the resonated a lot with me too. Imagine instead of holding a disc, you are holding a small stick with a little nail in it. Mentally hang the disc on the nail. Now throw. If you are too jerky, or aggresive the disc would simply fall off. If you dont accelerate smoothly, the disc will just wobble. if your wrist is all stiff, you will not be able to swing the small stick to get the most out of the throw. Its like the little chinese hand drums that you spin. Infact, maybe this could make for a good fun video? Trying out peoples wierd suggestions ;)

I try to think of myself as "spagetti" when i try to loosen myself up before a shot... My friends are jealous of my slingshots, even thou my accuracy is.. debatable. More control for me will do wonders!

I’m fairly new to disc golf and this is presently my favourite video lesson. Highlights are at 1:03 and 9:06, both are better at .25x playback speed. 😅

I think something that may help is to think you're not actually pushing and pulling your hand/disc. You're rotating your shoulders on axis. So more power means rotating the shoulders more before rotating them back. Your hand is a trebuchet. The further you push the spring down, (Rotating your shoulders back) the farther you can project the rock (the faster your can rotate and snap the disc out of you hsnd)

Wow! That's what I often do...muscle the Disc with my upper body like I'm power lifting...forgetting to engage my lower body 😱👀

There is so much going into a backhand throw (literally your entire body) to even put into a 9 min video its best to start from the ground up starting with footwork which is the foundation and working your way up. Great job guys

I would definitely recommend you to try transferring the weight from the back leg to the front. But focus on being low on your feet, hips staying on the same level through the whole run up. Hopefully it helps :D

You just need to play more Jonathan... Your body will start doing what you want after a while of repetition

At the beginning it was more chainsaw than smoothie. At the end it was a real smoothie. More delicious than tasty and a little bit sexy too... 🤣 Keep on going. 🙋🏻‍♂

If you like geeking out on form and such, you should take a look at how "Sketches for humanity" took his throw from 250-400 feet. Absolutely eye-opening video! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_DenVu3kaKI.html

I wish I watched this video before I chucked a +26 thru 18 today. It be like that some times, aiming for better tomorrow.

I'm going to try this. Played for the first time Saturday... nobody accused me of being slingshotty or smooth. Thanks for the instruction.

What's the weight of the disc you are throwing? 🤔 I got all my discs in max weight and I can't reach 100 meters. Should I buy lighter discs?

Are you trying to rotate on your heel during the follow through? Some don’t do that, but I think most do…? I feel like that is one small thing that helps me focus on complete body engagement and rotation.

Jonathan, there was a big difference in the before and after. Here's where! Notice the last couple seconds of the swing. In the second shot you generated so much more power that your whole body keeps twisting after you release! I think its like "follow through". You almost spun yourself completely around.

I really love these videos and the metal vibes. Add my band “ Poisoned Breath “ to a video and I’ll be forever grateful! Keep up with the amazing content.

By Hit point I'm meaning your disc release point. You go straight like you've been jolted by electricity. Stiffness is the order of the day? Johannes nails it, keep your head down until it's dragged by your left shoulder and don't stand at attention soldier:)

Air Bolts in the power pocket for the win! Make some please (and thank you!)

Great video!

Johannes smashes. Noticed that last year, another Lat 64 clip during Swedish winter. Anyway, Jonathon, you have more hip rotation than your utilizing I think and you seem to want to stand tall on and after the hit point (follow through). Just one guy's thoughts

Thanks Jonathan. I feel the same thing you do. I do my runup with no disc and it feels good. Then, I go out and throw and it feels offand unnatural. I have been able to improve a bit, but I am definitely still rounding. I know to bring the disc into my chest and lead with triceps, but I just can't do it in practice. I will just keep at it. My timing is definitely getting better.

I've watched this video when it came out but I just rewatched it cuz I'm really trying to find the power pocket that's what's holding me back I watched this video went to the field and within 10 throws found the power pocket and it feels glorious it's a little scary at first your arm can't do s*** but once you feel it and find it you're going to feel blessed so go try and thank you Johannes

Hey I lost my Royal bracelet at a tournament this weekend and I'm wondering if there is a way I can buy more?? It came out of my Royal box and I always wear it during my round! Thanks in advance!

Looks like you are doing great to me. I'd love to see you try some of the more unique styles like Matt Orum. I'm always trying different techniques to see if i can make improvements. Keep up the great work!

There was improvement between throws. More follow thru, and your head position. May I suggest, more bend in the knees in the lower body, think about dropping the front shoulder, and let the hips start the flow of energy , as Johannes said the arm follows the base. Snap a towel, it is not strentgh but smooth speed that makes it WHIP.

just watch Karate Kid 2 and be like the little drum. Seriously, spin back and forth with dead arms. Work on the timing until your hands hit the opposite shoulders at the same time repeatedly.

8:51 and puase haha you are actaully trying to NOT look the point is to not try to PEEK but dont fight the flow with your head haha

It's about the hyzer flip and opening your hips.

The amateur guy is too tense and stiff. He needs to practice with no disc in his hand, letting himself feel the 'whip' motion in his arm. With no disc, good players can still make a snap/whoosh sound with their arm, just by letting it go loose and using their lower body to create a whip. The amateur's arm is too tense to ever make this whip.

This works super well for me: During the run up, keep the x-step small and fast, then there’s a delay, and then you plant step. This extra half second that you buy yourself allows you to do some key things: lets all your joints catch up and hover in the right position, allows you to check your aim is true, and most importantly… RELAX. This way, as soon as your plant foot touches the ground you’re already positioned to snap everything forward

I have trouble gripping the disc tight and keeping my arm loose. If I am gripping the disc tight, then my arm is also tight.

In your second shot your body is more erect, slightly bent over, with your right shoulder and hip straightened with your body. While on the first one you are bent down more, with your right shoulder and hip turned right.

Thick rubber band doesn't need to stretch as far as a Thin rubber band to generate the same power. Don't confuse effort with actual power.

Not that I throw far, but the disc golf approach is like a dance step. The rhythm is important, just like in dancing. It takes practice to feel the rhythm, but try doing it to a beat

For me it took all back arm timing for 4 months. Then once I realized I hit a zone in round where I was better using my front shoulder and plant foot as my timer but my back arm activated the same it all clicked. I think the back arm focus is the key and once you click you can time the front arm cause the body learns to rotate. It is not a quick thing to learn.

Probably one of my biggest problems. My power is massively lacking and I always blame it on being a tiny person. I'll practice this and see how far it takes me lol

Please can we get more US release of the jonathon fuse please… I don’t even wanna throw it, it needs to be on my wall collection

I recently started working on this as I would muscle the disc, just loosening up my body and using more hips in a standing position I was throwing my mids 25" further the very first day lol. I got a lot of work to do as its now messed up my 3 step timing/speed but I think I'll finally be driving with mids vs fairways to get even more accuracy

I think the difficult thing for myself is strong grip but relaxed arm.

Always love the videos. Just remember, slow is smooth and smooth is fast!!!

I will try this one and see what happens. Just been playing some months. So thank you for the tip. maybe we should challenge you Jonathan in a game on some course thats not super duper hard here in Sweden hahaha

Thanks guys ☺ Helpful video 👍👀👂💙

Awesome video my man. I feel like I'm in the same boat as you are. Im starting my disc golf journey and I'm hooked and learning and developing my swing. So I feel everything you're going through. Some days it feels like it's coming together and some days not so much but I love your videos man and just watching the progression is awesome! Keep up the great content!