Any disc golfers?

[ChrisS]

I have recently picked up the sport of disc golf and I'm looking for pointers, your favorite discs, and just some talk about how the days round went what herps we saw along the course and what not.
My discs are:
Driver: Wraith dx 162g
Mid range: Shark dx 173g
Mid range: Wolf dx 177g
Putter: aviar dx 175g

[jdouglas]

Drivers:
170 Star Vulcan
172 Star T-Bird
169 Champion Valkyrie
175 Star TL
170 Champion Eagle

Mids:
166 Buzz-z
168 Buzz-ss

Putter:
175 JK Pro Aviar-x

I have alot more discs as well. These are just my favorites.

I'm not a pro, and I would say I am partially good on good days haha!
But the only tip I have for you is to go to the course and only play with a putter for a few rounds. Learn technique over distance. It is almost impossible to get a good distance throw on a putter if you strong arm.
Learn not to use your arm strength to throw the disc. Learn to use your body's spin and snap your elbow/wrist for spin. I on average can throw my putter further than beginners can throw their driver.

So pretty much stand still at the end of the T-pad and learn how to use your body to throw the disc. If your arm hurts at the end of a round you are doing it completely wrong! Only your joints should be soar.
There are many how to videos on youtube and their are disc golf forums where they discuss technique. They can teach you a lot!

So work on grip, throw, stance, direction, angles, etc.

[jdouglas]

Re: Maxing out @ 300ft...

Postby JHern » Tue Jan 19, 2010 5:28 pm
Two facts:

Fact 1: 300 ft is about as far as most men can throw using primarily the strength of their arm to propel the disc. For women it is closer to 230 ft.

Fact 2: The fact that you get the same distance no matter how you do your step implies that you aren't getting anything out of your legs, which drive your torso, which is the platform for your shoulders...

The sum:

Fact 1 + Fact 2 = You're strong-arming, throwing with your arm, and you're not getting much of anything from your torso and shoulders.

Your arm is of order 10X less powerful than your legs/torso. Stop throwing with your arm! Your arm is only useful for positioning and gripping, other than that, it is purely passive. Your arm needs to be turned into a whip that is driven by the powerful motion of your legs/hips/torso/shoulders.

Here's an exercise I might suggest:

Stand still with your arms at your side, completely relaxed. Turn your hips and torso back slowly and then rotate your hips quickly to the open position. Your arms should be whipped out and around in a windmill motion, without you using a single muscle in your arms. That's the feeling you should be aiming for.

Next do the same thing, except extend your throwing elbow out sideways from your body and hold it there (as if you put a vice around your shoulder). Allow your lower throwing arm and hand to hang limp from your elbow. Do it as if your arm were asleep and some mechanical device was locked onto your shoulder to keep the elbow pointed out side ways from your torso. Don't allow your elbow to move forward or backward, nor up nor down. It is completely locked in place, as if you no longer even had a shoulder joint and your upper arm were fused into your shoulder so that it would always point out sideways.

Now slowly turn your hips and torso back, and turn them abruptly open again. Don't use a single muscle in your arm! Now you should find that you've turned your arm into a whip. Your lower arm should be whipping forward super-fast. In fact, you can whip your lower arm forward way faster in this manner than your arm muscles could ever dream of doing. Your arm muscle strength decreases rapidly as speed increases, so they are useless anyways...trying to use them will only slow down this motion. You'll find that whipping your lower arm forward in this manner, with the elbow "stopped," will feel relatively effortless in comparison to trying to throw with your arm as you've probably been doing before.

Practice getting this feeling for a while. (Later you can work on the grip and positioning in finer detail, but for now focus on using your legs/hips/torso/shoulders as the powerful motor for whipping your arm forward.)

[Mike41793]

Never played disc golf but I do enjoy a casual game of ultimate frisbee. Sorry i cant help lol

[pigfat]

Love disc golf! My biggest tip is practice putting, putting, putting. That's where you can really cut down on your score. Finding a disc that fits your style and getting good with it. I have heavy stable drivers because I have a strong arm. The Vulcan is lighter because I throw it backhand. I'm one of the weird guys who can throw longer forehand than backhand. I max out around 350-360 feet.
DRIVERS:
Xcaliber-175
Ape-175
Destroyer-170
Vulcan-168

MIDRANGE:
Shark

PUTTERS:
Rhino
Aviar




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[ChrisS]

Never played disc golf but I do enjoy a casual game of ultimate frisbee. Sorry i cant help lol

I haven't played ultimate frisbee in years! You should try disc golf then we can help each other out with pointers.

[ChrisS]

Love disc golf! My biggest tip is practice putting, putting, putting. That's where you can really cut down on your score. Finding a disc that fits your style and getting good with it. I have heavy stable drivers because I have a strong arm. The Vulcan is lighter because I throw it backhand. I'm one of the weird guys who can throw longer forehand than backhand. I max out around 350-360 feet.
DRIVERS:
Xcaliber-175
Ape-175
Destroyer-170
Vulcan-168

MIDRANGE:
Shark

PUTTERS:
Rhino
Aviar




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I can actually put fairly well from 20 feet or so, there is a practice basket at the course I play at and like to see how many puts in a row I can hit. I'll hit about 80% at 20-25 feet. How do you like the ape driver?

[pigfat]

I like it. It has a lot of fade which works great for big doglegs.


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[MasonC2K]

We call it Frisbee Golf here. My friends and I play it casually. We used to make up our own courses but last year an official course was made at a local park so we go there. Takes about 3 hrs to run the whole course.

[ChrisS]

We call it Frisbee Golf here. My friends and I play it casually. We used to make up our own courses but last year an official course was made at a local park so we go there. Takes about 3 hrs to run the whole course.

Yea I've heard it called that too, I've also heard frolf. We have 2 courses right now, one takes about 2-2.5 hours the other is what I'd call a "putt-putt" course the average hole is less than 75 feet straight on and very open. What discs or type a frisbee are you playing with?