Disc Golf Tips and Technique: Driving with Dan Beato (Video)

[patdabunny]

Dan and Blake--

Gotta give major props to you guys continually. I had to sit out almost a year with health stuff and I came back to the exact same max D (550') after just a few rounds and throws! Your technique is absolutely spot on once you get it.

The only thing I have to add is that I tried one thing that added some acceleration to my hand late in the throw. It's actively opening your wrist from the time it passes your sternum to the hit point. It works beautifully on both mids and drivers. When my D is on, this adds at least 50-75'. It amazed my brother when I showed him up pretty badly with his own discs. Never thrown it before (esp nuke, regular) and bombed it 550' and about 200' past his best with it. He wasn't very happy about that!

I appreciate both of you putting up with my constant questions while I was learning. I'm now helping others with this technique and pointing them toward you guys. Hopefully they learn faster than I did and don't bug you guys too much!

Daniel

[Whiz]

Psh, I don't believe you can throw it 550.


JK, I will see you on DGCR racer93. If I ever am coming through Louisville I would love to get in a round.

[Triflusal]

shit dude, racer93 is patdabunny

i'm glad I believed you

[Crosseyed0811]

Hai,

I am the new one of this forum. my suggestion about the topic to play a disc golf is a relatively new online game where players throw Frisbee (disc) in the container. Overlap of the traditional rules of golf, but the sport is much more accessible and easy to understand and do. The game has increased in popularity over the past 20 years, because it is a very simple experiment, and many of the courses are free for use. Sport itself is not necessarily considered dangerous, but a number of top safety tips for golfers of DVDs that we tackle.The top of the basic standards of the practical tip is to throw the whole plate before the ball game. The technique is fairly easy to learn, and depends on the level of disc thrown in, the horizontal movement. This helps to keep the frisbee in the air and also avoid running on both sides.

Say what??

[fanter]

I've been spending a lot of time isolating movements so that I can get the feel for them, starting with simply shifting my weight between feet in a plant position. Then I added the hip twist, leaving everything above the hips loose. When I finally started to add a pull, I realized that I was actively opening my *forearm* and my "pull" was more of an "eject."

I know I've been strong-arming, but I don't think I've yet known (until now) exactly what that meant in my case. So I told myself to "throw my elbow" and found the passive opening force of my forearm and wrist to feel MUCH stronger than when I opened it actively.

I came back to Dan's video and realized that this was the reason I could never figure out the pec drill, because from the pec position I opened my forearm out, rather than throwing my elbow and letting the forearm (and then the wrist) sling open.

Tell me if I'm on track or not. I benefit a lot from regurgitating this information.

[JR]

If you mean that throwing the elbow is actively pushing it forward fast to get the disc around the right pec with the elbow way closer to the target than the right side when the chest points 90 degrees left of the target for RHBH you're probably on the right track. However; everything you do should add to the speed and spin of the disc. So the elbow should automatically straighten faster the more forward the elbow is (unless locked by being too far forward). But you should not rely on the passive elbow extension alone. You can accelerate with the arm muscles with conscious effort. That in turn adds even more speed and acceleration to the throw. Necessitating timing changes. And bending the wrist back even harder. Meaning you should add to the effort of not allowing the wrist to bend back more than half an inch or so. Not an easy task with pro level power. That means a good deal of tendon and forearm power/damage limiting training is required to be able to hyper spin the disc. That means not locking the wrist but allowing it to bend but only a little and then at the right time actively moving the wrist right of neutral or a quarter inch or so left of neutral to the right. Maybe about 10-15 degrees right of neutral. Then trying to stop the wrist as fast as possible and pinching like it's for your life. Not simple and you sound like you are several steps from the ideal. Can't say that i am too far ahead of you. At least in part due to lacking muscle power and nerve speed. Come to think of that arm nerve speed training couldn't hurt.

[fanter]

If you mean that throwing the elbow is actively pushing it forward fast to get the disc around the right pec with the elbow way closer to the target than the right side when the chest points 90 degrees left of the target for RHBH you're probably on the right track.

Yes. For some reason the word "throw" makes more sense to me than "push," but I'm quite sure we're talking about the same thing.

[JR]

Back to front motion of the elbow is what i mean. One that goes far closer to the target than the side before straightening the arm.

[Indy's broken whip]

Finally getting some progress with this, I first tried this several months ago but couldn't get anything going and quit. Now I just spent two hours in the field, and first it felt awful, the "throws" were ten meters long and then meters to the right, and it hurt my lower back every time. I realized that although I was doing the skateboard kick motion, my hips weren't turning, and I jammed my lower back when I just moved my upper body and then legs. Or something equally weird.

I then stopped using feet altogether, just pushed the disc to the upper right pec, turned my torso bit away from the target, and just threw. And it felt so effortless, I could really aim better with my elbow, didn't turn the head so much so I could really see the line, and the the results were better than my ordinary stand still throws with lousy reachback. Everything flew around 50-70 meters (my max distance is around 80 meters) straight and nose down, there didn't seem to be big difference between the discs. Usually MD2 and P1 turn almost immediately flopping around if I don't give them big hyzer
angle, but now the did small turn to right and that's it.

Some issues:

I'm keeping the disc quite high (almost shoulder height), it seems that if I keep the disc under the nipple, I throw to the ground.

I'm still slipping the disc out of the hand, if I try to grip it as hard as I can, it won't leave Or I spray to right. Also my timing goes of. I should probably just keep practicing of gripping later and pulling harder (still starting the torso twist before pulling, otherwise to the right we spray.)

Skateboard kick and the whole hip thing just seems so unnatural to me, I can get the feeling bit with one step, but with stand still, it's really hard to time it and shift the weight forward properly.

So there's still lots of work to do, but finally I feel that I'm onto something.

[niq]

I would try to start your pull later to fix the problems with grip lock and/or spraying right.

I'm still trying to get the hang of it too, but I have found that if I wait until the disc is passed the right pec (it feels really weird to wait this long. It feels like you've lost all your opportunity to build any momentum to launch the disc) before I start to actively accelerate/pull I can get a lot more distance (400'+)

[douglas78]

Question for Dan,

Were you out at Acorn yesterday between 1 - 3pm? Thought I saw ya and was going to say hi from the forums, but figured I would've looked like a douche.