2017-02-13 More Practicing I've been to the soccer field more times. My video feedback ses- sions are not over yet. There's too much that requires improve- ment and there's also too much success in filming myself throwing shot after shot. The mode of these sessions stayed the same, I just adjusted my focus when practicing. Two times it was about reducing the wobble (OAT) by a straighter pullthrough and managing a straighter release line. The wobble did decrease hugely, foremost because of the different index finger position, but also because of a higher pullthrough. (Danny Lindahl came up with exactly the same topic, recently. [0]) The left-right direction of the disc's flight remained a problem, though. There are cases when I managed the right direction well, but there were too many cases when I pulled the disc over to the right on the release. There were few cases when I released too early. Most of my practice shots on this time were with 50-60% power. That was helpful for technique improvements. Another thing I tried to improve was the nose-up problem. It's better now, mainly because of following Danny's insight to pull through higher. Yet, the strong headwind these days provided a merciless feedback, each time when I threw nose-up. ;-) Because of Danny's video, I now much better understood how hyzers and annies are really to be thrown. I've heard, read and watched a lot about them, but never understood them as I do now. Maybe that's only because now I'm advanced enough to be able to under- stand it. As a further thing, I've had a look at my upper to lower body timing. I assumed that my upper body would be too late ... that I would lever over my front foot, like in shot put, javelin throw and other track and field disciplines, instead of throwing on one line. This would explain my upward directed throws as well. After I had another close examination of Eric McCabe's technique [1] I came to the conclusion that the clue is bending the front foot. I always had it streched out, which resulted in this leveraging effect and the disc going upwards. Hence, bend the front foot! My upper body might actually not be too late; EMac's pullthrough starts as well when the front foot touches the ground. The more important thing is that the body weight center is behind the front foot at release time, not over it. As the latter aspect can well be practiced from a standstill, I did so and left the addi- tional variables of the X-step aside. And -- Yay! -- that was a step forward again. Bending the front foot not only helped getting the nose down but also resulted in less left-right variance. And by now using my left arm the way EMac does it, I was able to reach 80 meters with my Teebird, from a standstill! Three times within an hour! (My current record is 85m with an X-step, thrown exactly once.) The Teebird flew much straighter and the power had increased so much that problems with turning over the Comet occured. The Roc flew straightest in this last session (little hyzer flip). The Buzzz usually flew a slight hyzer line (... maybe caused by the same hyzer release angle). I had left the putters at home, which was the right thing. Bending the front foot and using the left arm improved my shots hugely. I'm still impressed how such small changes result in such great advancements. This field work is so fruitful, I won't stop with it. Besides, there's nothing more joyful to me in disc golf than just watching a well thrown disc flying. :-) [0] http://youtu.be/i9Cg9U1a1zg [1] http://youtu.be/FKaFDq_7UNI http://marmaro.de/discgolf/ markus schnalke