2017-02-03 Filming Part 3 The next filmed throwing session. This time, my focus was on pul- ling through nearby my body not towards it. This was fully suc- cessful. There was no single shot that I did this wrong this time, compared to last time when it was *every* single shot that I did it wrong. :-) For sure, there is nothing as effective as watching yourself in slow motion when practicing technique! I've done only three filmed sessions so far, each about one hour long, but my advance- ments through them are huge! This would not have been possible without watching myself. After each throw I comment how it felt and what I think was wrong. It is eye opening how wrong my as- sumptions are most times, compared to the errors I see when watching the film in slow motion afterwards. There simply is nothing that could substitute watching yourself. But let's go to the details. I've spent one hour on the sports pitch, throwing about ten times each of my seven discs. On each go, I filmed myself throwing each of the discs, then went on the court to gather them, by throwing upshots back to the camera po- sition. Hence, in total it were about 140 throws, with half of them recorded. The camera position was better this time than the last (more left), but it still could have been even more left, because some disc flights were covered by my body. I also noticed that throwing into a whiteish sky makes the disc invisible on video, most times, no matter what color the disc has. I should throw the other way next time and use a higher camera position. As the snow has disappeared, I could throw my white putters too. This was a good experience. The P2 is great to drive with. Howev- er, I'm still on my way to getting used to their fade. (I know that fade is a tool for distance control. I've just not advanced enough for that.) My plan was to throw only straight shots. The results were not as straight as I wanted. After watching the videos, I clearly see the problem: late release! The pull through was really great. I managed to pull a straight line until the disc is in front of my body, but then it does not go off straight ahead, but I pull it to the right, where my arm goes. If I would release a bit ear- lier, it would go straight, I believe. This is to practice the next time: release it earlier to have it continue straight. Related to that might be my tendency to move backward with my body at the time of release. I'm more on my heel with the stand foot (or how it is called). I know that I should keep my weight above my toes and that I need to lean a bit forward with my upper body. On some shots that happend to be more the case than on oth- ers. It was great to have some kind of a ``this feels right'' ex- perience on some of the better shots. Hopefully I can grow this internal feedback, for it helps when training without the camera. My tendency to tilt backwards might be related to my standstill throwing. It kind of feels artificial. I did some slow X-step throws and they felt much more natural. The body and arm move- ments felt to be more in harmony if my whole body moves. The downside is that my steps are different each time and thus there are a lot of variables, but the overall motion was much smoother. I think I should continue with throwing both, standstills and X- steps. After too many normal backhand throws it started to become bor- ing, so I threw a bunch of rollers. I've watched a good explana- tion video on rollers [0] recently. I tried especially the thumb rollers ... and they were a lot of fun. They appear to be most helpful for low ceilings. My backhand rollers all resulted in sky rollers. Forehand rollers were not better. Will have to practice them much more, but the thumb rollers are easy. I couldn't manage to get a cut roller working, but that might have been because the grass was wet. Furthermore, I tried a grenade. Only yesterday I learned what it is. [1] It didn't work out that well. I think a thumber would result in a similar flight, but with much more con- trol for me. Coming back to my driving technique. I wanted to write separately about that, and maybe I'll still do that, but I think I should mention here nonetheless that Danny Lindahl's [2] instructions helped me the most these days. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] This is just what I am working on and he is able to explain it really well, besides, I enjoy listening to him. (... but can't he stop spin- ning the disc constantly while talking?) Lastly, I suffer much from disc wobble (that must be what is called OAT). I know that and I have to remove that, but that will have to wait until the more grave technique issues are solved. [0] http://youtu.be/i5joRhBOjDM [1] http://youtu.be/hoAXp4liWxU [2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2VGodlZLCRY1n3TAU3YQNw [3] http://youtu.be/PJOT0vOnNvk [4] http://youtu.be/lCqiWawLtZ0 [5] http://youtu.be/qOs9bICd1Ts [6] http://youtu.be/joFBC1UfDak [7] http://youtu.be/A2_OVPhLg0A http://marmaro.de/discgolf/ markus schnalke