2020-05-03 Distance Another day on the field. It had perfect temperatures for field training (17C) and a slight south wind (headwind). I had a bunch of drivers over all stabilities with me. My goal was to test out what I've read in Blake T.'s Distance Lines article. [0] Furth- ermore, I wanted to continue my experients with the more outwards rolled wrist grip. or how you'd call it. It's not only -- as I wrote last time -- a question of rotating your palm up on release and follow-through, but also gripping the disc in a way that ro- tates the wrist more outwards around the disc, more palm-up, the hand more under than on the disc. This helped me to get the nose down. Anyways, I tried the overstable and understable distance lines, explained in the article. The overstable anny line is one that I've already discovered when I threw the Felon and Hellfire this way up to 85m or so, some time ago. It worked today, but not as well. It's much more difficult for me to get the angles right in this case, for optimal distance, than it is to throw the same discs on slight annies for about the same distances. Maybe with a tailwind, the distance line could profit. The hyzer-flip distance line was much harder to find. Likely I haven't found it yet at all. By the end of the session I just discovered real hyzer-flip shots. Hyzers are more foreign to me than annies. Long hyzers and annies like I throw them with the Valk on the course are not what I talk about. These I can throw about the same as flat shots, just with a bit of angle on the disc. Severe hyzers and annies need much more body angle change. Such hyzer shots are difficult for me. Here something changed when I tried to throw long sweeping hyzers. Especially for the more understable discs I needed severe hyzer (70-80 deg or so). But as I also threw with full power, the understable discs flew straight, despite this much hyzer. For the first time, these were real hyzer-flips. Some (like the DX Leo) even turned over the whole way. Others (like the pretty new 300 F7) flipped up and went 85m. Interesting was the comparison of the two Valks. The Pro Valk flipped up and rode on a pretty straight line 90m. The Star Valk, thrown on the same hyzer angle, flew a perfect pure hyzer, as well 90m far. 90m on a pure hyzer! The line was just perfect. Most shots, however, I threw on more flat releaes, straight for max distance. On later rounds, I facilitated the new discovered hyzer-flip technique to get the understable discs far on straighter lines. Here some random findings: Besides several 90m shots, I had another top 5 farthest throw: The Insanity flew on a hyzer-flip into the higher part of the right side of the slope. That's at least 100m, but it still was pretty straight at that point. It might have been even more. What a shot! :-) The Star Eagle-X (170g) had consistently long distances: three times above 85m and once into the slope at around 95m. Maybe I should bag that disc instead of the DX Eagle. (Both DX Eagle flew far as well, but with larger variance in all directions.) More consistent distance I got, for the first time, with the Prime Trespass, my only distance driver. Five times in the range round 90m, sometimes a bit below other times even above! That's the result of having the nose down! So simple: Get the nose down and the fast discs start to fly fine. :-) For fast discs the -1/3 flight pattern really is a great one. Now that I got the nose down, hyzer-flips actually work. Thus understable plastic starts to make sense, for the first time. This is a breakthrough! Generally, I had a lot of snap on my throws. I felt and heard it. Today was a big step forward! [0] https://www.dgcoursereview.com/dgr/resources/articles/distancelines.shtml http://marmaro.de/discgolf/ markus schnalke