How to Instantly Get a Better Forehand in Disc Golf (Tutorial)

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what up today’s video is on forehands now I think the forehand is mistaught quite a bit and I think there’s a lot of people that don’t know what they’re doing because there’s not a ton of videos out there so I’ll be going over everything I know about forehands and how I know I can improve yours first off real quick just going to go through my grip i hold it like that putting most of my pressure into the flight plate now a lot of people put it into the rim that when I do that I get a lot of wobble um but you know it kind of just depends on how how you feel with that whenever I push into the rim it’s it’s kind of like it’s locked in there but I’m not getting a pivot where if I pinch the flight plate I can get this pivot without you know ripping out of my hand so I get extra spin that way and spin’s very important for like lower speed discs when it comes to the forehand now starting off with just the mechanics the first thing I’ll talk about is the runup so I’ve seen a couple of different run-ups for for me I do kind of depends on how far the shot is but it’s a pretty slow controlled runup one two and then I kind of do a hop three four and then throw i basically wherever my left foot lands right right here let’s say it lands to the left of this disc it’s just gonna replace with my right foot and then I’ll go into the shot some people like to kind of cross over their step like that i’ve also seen cross behind i think it kind of turns your hips away too much though and then it becomes a little awkward you might get more power uh but yeah I like to keep it simple just do a slow walk up replace the step and then throw into the shot so here’s what it looks like for me on a soft soft shot now I’m going to show you guys angle control this is super easy and this is why I stress to keep a pretty flat angle in general when you’re throwing forehand i don’t think it’s smart to come way up here and then swoop down because it can create injury but also just inconsistency everywhere because the angle’s changing so much whatever angle the shot is I kind of I lean over a little bit but I drop my elbow to whatever height I need it to be for that shot so if it’s an Annheiser and I’m aiming at that goal right there I’m going to set it on the angle I want and all I got to do is come back and then come through on the same angle and then continue the plane that’s on a huloop so it’s going to fall through down so you’ll see here And then next I’ll do a flat forehand same thing just keep it flat snap it right down the middle i aced it and then finally is the hiser this one’s pretty easy you just lean over drop the angle of the elbow and swing it out on whatever angle you want so makes it super easy to hit the angles that’s where like I said the the problem is when you come way up here it makes it so hard to hit angles there’s no point i will always sacrifice you know 25 50 feet of distance if I know where the disc is going to go every time so that kind of goes into my next point like I said the flat pull through so I like to keep it right here make it really simple the only thing I really do I start to reach back as I’m going to replace that that step and then as this my last step’s coming out I raise my elbow just a little bit to give me some extra power and then I drop it into my right hip and pretty much once it’s in my hip it’s locked for the rest of the throw and then it comes through like this and then pops out wherever I want it so it’s like this here and I’m just going lock to the hip out lock to the hip makes it super easy so when I’m warming up my forehand and trying to get my my release and my timing that’s what it looks like and it’s super easy to just kind of project the line you want so here’s what that looks like advanced instruction segment all right this is some advanced instruction so to get more power in the forehand one of the most important parts is using the left arm actually so with a baseball pitcher you see them extend their glove on their and then they pull down like that to initiate more spin if you’re just not using your left arm it’s all just on your body but it’s kind of like with the backhand how you see a lot of people throw the arm in early to get the spin and the pop with the lag that’s created it’s the same way with the forehand so you’ll see I think AB’s really good at it but he really gets that arm kind of out there and then he kind of pulls it and almost throws it down and creates lag the other thing to do pairing that with this next thing is going to be getting the hips out in front while the upper body is still rotated back so what that’s going to do is create a lot of tension in your abia when you throw that hip forward first while the upper body is still back you’re going to feel it there you’re going to feel it in your back and that is coiling so what the coil does is it just speeds up everything so when you throw the arm and then fire the hips and the upper body hasn’t gone yet then use your ab to snap it back to place scott Stokeley is also really good at this so throw the left arm throw the right hip and then the right arm will come through lock in and that’s where a ton of power is located that a lot of people don’t know so if I ever need a huge forehand I do definitely break out the left arm and then try to get the hip through early just to create more speed in general so that’s going to do it for the forehand lesson those are just some of the things that I think about when I throw my forehand and uh a couple advanced methods there to once you further have a good forehand and a good foundation you can further expand upon that with using the left arm and the coil and stuff like that so that’s pretty much it for this video let me know what you guys thought and uh like and subscribe put in the comments what you want to see next and uh thanks Ben also once again Cloud Breakers are now available check them out seaine Horizon this year came out beautiful and these are absolute bombers with a slight dome thank you guys see you