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24 Comments
You keep saying perpendicular, I’ve never tried to put my rear foot at a 90 degree angle to my front foot. Do you mean parallel?
Good video. To add to the first question, it seems like McBeth kind of pushes from the back leg when going slowly instead of gliding. He seems to kind of slowly go through the x-step and end up in a position where he kind of balances on his back leg. He pushes off from it more like doing a standstill. So "it depends" is a good point, but I just wanted to throw this thought also in the air, where it seems to be used differently. I also might be wrong, so take what I say with a grain of salt.
Get Mikey to do a distance competition against the Slingshot guy who does that back leg stuff.
Love this take! Had a similar thought a few months ago. Thanks for the video!
Now that I've seen this video, I'm changing my channel name to "Glide and Slide" Disc Golf (GAS DG)™
I'm in the weight shift camp. Working with your video, when to step lead heel down. loading weight on back leg till hip locks, goes from up to down, heel down then shifting weight forward without pushing off back leg.
In other words, pushing off the back leg may increase distance but I'm going to lose discs. To me, I just know that's not what I need now. I need control
I used to prioritize a perpendicular left foot on the X step; Until I prioritized hip angle, then it became just X step and maintain hip tilt till it drops on the reach back, the lead hip. up up down up
How do you come up with this stuff, Josh? That counter balance weight exercise is so Zen
Epic. Such a good coach
I understand what you’re saying but if a disc golf throw is in a lot of ways parallel to a baseball hitters swing, hitters definitely drive off the back leg. Can you imagine if they didn’t? All arm swings which would never get out of the infield. I understand they are in disc golf terminology effectively doing a stand still as you put in the category of when you do drive off the back leg, but I just don’t think the disc community as a whole has come to any coherent consensus on back leg drive. Yes in theory you’re getting all the momentum you need off the run up, but I would bet you ask 100 pros, particularly those that are not 6’5 who mostly don’t have to obey any of the rules of good form to throw far compared to us normal sized folks, and you’d get any of a handful of answers.
“Do you drive off the back leg on distance shots?”
“Not at all” … “a little” … “I don’t think about it” … and “definitely”
I am however positive they don’t focus on how their leg swings or balances them, unless they’re sumo legging somehow, which they’re pros and don’t do that. They just stay in balance like a hockey player does the necessary things to stay on their skates and don’t think about how they do it.
I have a feeling that this video was created because of my question on the live stream. LOL
Thanks for this!
We all learned from Dana vichi, he moves in slow motion, now Buhr, redalan, the Robinsons all seems to be creeping into there drives
Everyone wants to sprint like Conrad, so difficult to make adjustments at full speed.
Too good. I've been focusing on standing backhand drives, I never knew about that aspect of the back leg. I plan to try it out this evening. This guy is now an Intermediate Patreon 👊 Proud to be supporting the OT fam.
Very helpful and insightful content as always! I focused on not pushing off my back leg in my latest fieldwork session, and found that it really helps me get a consistent plant with my front leg (resulting in more consistent power). It helps so much with overall timing as well. Thank you!
Yall need to just come out and say it… Sling shot is full of shit
Pushing with the back leg fixed my foot work, reduced hip pain (as opposed to letting the back leg just drag behind) and finally got me consistently over 500' with minimal upper body effort. Just a quick push, no twisting or squishing. I was stuck at 450' for a couple of years because of Youtube coaches teaching to just run agaist the brace, as in this video. I recommend watching Nick Krush's videos on brace.
Thanks!
I’ve been arguing that no pros “push off the cross step” for years without much success this community has been stuck in a rut and I’m happy to see people charting a new course away from it.
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As someone who only throws standstill, and got an understanding of the throw from reverse engineering a baseball bat swing, I wonder if I have too much push forward from my back leg (but I do step back with my leg probably twice the length you did in your rocking motion)
Hah! Aha moment here! I'm the perpetual open hip, front foot pointing forward, and no brace, 10 yr player. @ 1:20! If I just have the weight on the back leg and then step out diagonal and land perpendicular without opening the hips early( I used to open hips before I land my front foot. I have pictures to prove it. It was horrific form)), I can finally start pulling from the right position. My momentum has somehow messed my brain up, making me want to land front foot pointing forward and hips rotating forward before I even plant my foot.
I now walk up slower and think about my weight on backfoot and then plant my front foot perpendicular before I rotate my hips forward. It works!!
Thanks Josh.
@overthrow could you do a collab with DGblitz for a legit stand still tutorial. I am 52 with some legit back and hip issues. doing a run up or walk up if not very careful really causes a pain flare up that can last for several days to a week. Just trying to enjoy the sport maximize my drives while staying healthy. Thanks for all your videos.
best disc instruction on the internet thank you for the applicable pointers!