2017-01-16 Reducing Power I just bought a Teebird, because I was curios of what (fairway) drivers would be like and to have something against the wind and because this disc will most likely end up in my bag anyway, but actually, I don't need it at all, currently. I have read a lot about discs you can't go wrong buying and about building bags and about what the pros have in their bags, and I have thought a lot about my own future bag (admittingly with hardly any experience, because I've just started), but though, I am quite sure that I won't need the Teebird for at least two or three more months, maybe I won't need it at all in the first half year. Also, it seems to be right, that it doesn't improve my technique. I feel that I should *now* go one step back and do only putting and upshots, i.e. I should reduce the power of all throws. I should stop going to the course (although it is well suited for midranges as the longest holes are 100m), because it makes me want to throw farther. Instead, I should return to the soccer field and practice with the Aero, the Buzzz, the Comet and with my P2 putter. There's nothing so appealing to watch than McBeth's upshot video. [0] He does it all with this seeminly relaxed motion, there's no apparent power involved ... and he throws farther than I can with full power. Simon Lisotte definitely is impressive to watch, cranking out a putter, but although his technique must be great, it's not helpful for me. But when he does one of these low-power approach shots with the putter, which you don't see as often as his power shots, I feel great desire to be able to do just that: get a disc to fly nicely with a smooth throwing motion. [1] I want to be able to reproduce straight shots, hyzer lines, an- nies, no matter how short they are. Later flex shots and (with the appropriate disc or power) hyzer flips. These are the basics and this is what I want to learn to produce consistently and without the need of power. My plan is to do a lot of shots on the soccer field, one after each other, all the same, just focussing on technique, flight path and on using few power, doing it all smoothly. For the fun component, I'll add some upshots and tree-putts, but mainly I want to practice throwing the basic lines nicely. Actually, I think the Comet is the midrange that suites me best currently, but as I have just one, I'll throw the Buzzz as well. Throwing them feels similar enough. On the other hand, I'd like to work with the Aero again. It feels as if it is a great disc to learn. It's a kind of midrange-putter and it goes dead straight. I believe that it did me a lot of good, throwing it exclusively at the very beginning. But throwing it feels so much different to throwing the Buzzz or Comet that I don't want to mix them. (Really, the Aero feels different to any other disc I have and I wonder how to combine it in a bag. I do love to throw the Aero. With its high glide and the low speed it needs I can use it well to compensate the high-turn disc I don't have currently (and as well my lack of a practiced sidearm). Further more, it allows me easiest to achive a nice flight line. Still, I don't know how to combine it with the other discs. It's somehow either throwing the Aero or the others.) [0] http://youtu.be/V3LCPgvflo8 [1] http://letyour.putterfly.at/p/go-with-flow.html http://marmaro.de/discgolf/ markus schnalke