3 of my drives: change over time

[CJ1998]

I have three examples of my drive taken at 8 month intervals. I started playing in June of 07. The fist clip is from August. The second clip is from April of this year and I received some good feedback on it. The last one was just taken yesterday. It was a Champion Leopard which went about 320. I think I've made some pretty big strides this year, but I still don't think I get my weight forward enough.

Then and now.

Feedback is always appreciated. Fire away!!

The latest drive is at about 40 seconds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5CvdURxhKw#t=0m40s

[Bradley Walker]

This is an amazing transition.

More elbow lead (I sound like a broken record).

[C. B.]

That was cool to watch. Thanks for posting that.
I'm in no position to critique anyone elses throw, but each one looks progressively better.

[JR]

Agreed on the need for more weight forward and elbow extension. Also try a 2-4" lower stance by bending the knees more. The muscle stiffness in the right leg in the plant should be loose to allow your stance to drop while pushing with the left leg to turn towards the target. Only after your stance is low and you're about to hit you should start tightening the muscles in the right leg to about maximum stiffness. This stiffening should coincide with retarding motion speeds so that the disc can pivot between the index finger and thumb.

[Craig Smolin]

the transition from a huge runup that didn't transfer any power to the disc

to

a short, very compact runup, with great hip and shoulder turn. this "walkup" starts slow and has great acceleraton at the hit. your transferring a lot of power to the disc at the point of release.

I've actually modified my "walkup" such that it is actually pretty similar to this. Accuracy is greatly improved, without sacrificing too much distance, because you're getting solid hip-shoulder turn and good snap.

damn, I should prolly rewatch it again and learn something.

edit: the only thing that seems to be missing is a real "hard push" with your plant leg. you might get a bit more distance working on that.