Ricky Wysocki's 5 beginner Swing Tips for your backhand! 

I remember looking up a putting clinic he did with Paige at least 3 years ago and he was a stuttering mess. His on camera skills have improved massively

He’s come a long way. It’s a great example of what disc golf can do for people.

Funny that was my first thought within 10 seconds

I never cared one bit about anything but how he played the game which is nothing short of incredible

@@ryosapien27 I never did either.. but I’d you watch Ricky’s workshops from 4 years ago. He has gone from low confidence introvert, to confident extrovert.

Welcome to this wonderful sport!

Seems like aiming at the release point makes more sense. If you aimed your feet at your target, you'd adjust your body to throw the anhyzer because you know that's what you want to throw, and you'd make it anhyzer too far. He was using his body to adjust the hyzer angle, not where he was pointing. Might depend on what disc you want to throw as well.

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I skied most shots until i figured out 3 things, wrist angle, forearm angle, and forearm rotation. 1. For your wrist, think of grabbing a jug and pouring it onto the ground, keep your wrist in this position (relative to your forearm for the entire swing). 2. For your forearm keep your wrist slightly lower than your elbow (relative to your throwing angle), to others your forearm should look flat, but to you it should feel like your wrist is slightly lower. 3. forearm rotation, basically, dont rotate your forearm. going from palm down to palm up will induce a nose down angle, going from palm up to palm down will induce a nose up angle, My guess is that you already do #1 you have not even thought of #2 and your problem is probably something to do with #3 Best of luck, hope i helped :)

Hips engage first then everything else follows is what I thought.

Seems like he's thinking about the hips in a follow-through sense. Anyway, thinking "lead with the hips" leads to a spin out imo.

@@Postermaestro only leads to a spin out if you’re twisting instead of shifting your weight forward. Hips move in a lateral motion and then rotate when they hit the end of their range of motion.

You always always lead with your arm ,shoulders, then hips. It's the same throw as a placement shot 150ft you throw it with your arm you don't use your hips, it is the same throw long-distance. If he fired his hips first you would see both back pockets on his pants. But here Ricky is getting ready to throw the disc and you still can't see both back pockets.

The hips could move before those others, you wouldnt maybe feel it because your whole body is in movement but Ricky is talking about the mental side

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Thanks for the comment. Having watched other content I was confused by this, as I was under the impression that hips go first. But I’m a beginner and was just about to hit the field going elbow first, because Ricky said so.

Yeah I was totally thinking the same thing that the hips start the swing. I think viewing the hips as firing last is either more of a feel thing or maybe more of a visual thing since the hips seem to not only start the swing but also can be what finishes it after the follow thru is completed..the firing sequence happens extremely fast.

@@mikebeireis3990 right, they technically swing through after the upper body, but fire first. Throwing is lower body First to upper body last, the follow through is upper body First to lower body last.

@@fronkjd8853 Yes, I suppose the key takeaway of Ricky viewing the hips coming around last ensures that he has fully followed thru and the swing definitely involved all moving parts and wasn't an upper body throw only, which would cause many problems including minimized power and potential injury...it's definitely interesting to see how the champ thinks about the swing sequence. Follow thru ftw!

Fronkjd this is spot on

I'm surprised he said this. It's going to mislead a lot of people, I think. It's definitely hips first if you want to be able to throw 320+.

Not really, moving the hips too far too early can make you lean into the shot or pull it right.

If you watch the shots of him throwing he does go hips->shoulders->arm

@@J_Halcyon That is kinda my point. He states it is elbow first, which is contrary to every other teacher I have researched, and then he follows it up moving his hips first, like you said, which is contradicting his own teachings.

@@heartdisciple I do agree with this

And you get to hear "Drunk Ricky"

Yep! The technique is not that complicated.

Don't know about you but this was fairly straightforward... i think you just didn't relate to any of the tips

Totally

Thank you

His left foot looks like a short abbreviated step that's almost autonomous so he probably doesn't even realize it.

He actually starts with his left foot, which moves into roughly a 45 degree angle, followed by the right foot, which moves to approximately a 90 degree angle. There's a difference between a walk-up and a cross-step. The walk-up includes all the previous steps, but the cross-step are the last 4 steps of that movement that he's talking about.

@Nick Carroll he does and that's my point. Between 43 and 60 seconds he shows and describes how he STARTS and it's with his right foot first. He doesn't .say that's his x step...he says that he takes his first step and turns his shoulders. But when he really begins his walk/run up, his first step is the left foot. Kind of...do what I say, not what I do.

@@BillFromAZ yeah this video highlights the point that the pros often say something different than what they actually do. From the historical imprecise use of terminology, to incorrect understanding of some fundamentals, to teaching inaccurately a variety of things. The sport has evolved despite these things, thankfully, and we're starting to nail down a lot of things now.

@@NickCarroll I've learned to watch what they do and listen to why they do it. That seems to work the best. BTW...are you the Nick from the Nick and Matt show? I really enjoyed the episodes.

“Feel vs Real”

He leads with the hips

No he doesn't lead with hips. If his hips went first you would see both back pockets on his pants, but you don't you see only one. Not sure who keeps put out there your hips go first but they are wrong. It's just like a placement shot 150ft you throw it with your arm you don't fire your hips first they fallow. Whenever you watch a video just Freeze Frame it right when the guy releases the disc and you can see that his hips and front foot are still perpendicular on release of the disc.

@@JJGlyph I watched the vid a couple times and think you are interpreting that correctly. Ricky kind of went all over the place and didn’t use proper sports movement terms which made it a bit more cryptic to follow. He has such a pleasant and energetic personality, it was still fun to watch twice!

Most pros can’t articulate or teach as well as they can throw.