0:00-1:53: Introduction
1:53: BILL: The back foot load is my own personal biggest problem. I want to get my weight really forward too soon and it’s something I am really trying to be utterly cognizant about. Working with Bill, this is what I would do with anyone who tends to get their weight too far forward to soon. I explain a lot with him; stuff I really wished I knew sooner.
5:03: JASON: Jason has a tendency to really bring the disc super high above his back shoulder, and using two hands when doing it. So, as simple as it sounds, it was important to take Jason’s comfort and tweak it from gripping with two hands to using an open hand but still touch the disc. That’s all he needed today. Once he works that in, we can build off of it.
9:41: JIMMY: Jimmy has good fundamentals. Brandon showed him the stand-still drill I taught to Brandon a while ago. Jimmy was trying to throw 100% from a standstill, and that’s not the goal of the stand-still drill. The goal is what I explain in the video. Feel free to incorporate in your own training.
11:27: BRANDON: I did include one throw from Brandon because he’s been to all of my field clinic days, and I know he wouldn’t mind.
The goal for him this weekend was to stop being so analytical every moment of every throw—it makes him so rigid and stiff. I wanted to prove to Brandon that his body can throw differently than the rigid mental mechanics of “this is how I am supposed to throw,” and staying in this rigid framework.
It was important, I felt, to teach Brandon to let go of any presupposition of what he thinks he should do and get out there and rip discs.
This is not something I would recommend for everyone because most people have the opposite problem and have to quick of feet and too quick in everything and throwing it 111%. So I’d slow them down. Brandon, I needed to speed up. And you’ll see what I saw on camera. Brandon bombed that disc and had really great timing. He never moves that quick or generates that much power in his throw. Although it wasn’t really “fast,” for him, it was sped up and it was awesome.
Now he knows there’s a different speed in him he can generate and build off of, bring back, and explore.
12:57: PUTTING TIPS
I feel most don’t realize you have to build up your putt. And it starts with the wrist and bringing the disc down to center, just above your region. Think of the disc as a clock. 12 o’clock is dead center. A right-handed out is placing your right hand around 2pm, with my index finger at 1pm. As the disc comes down to center, it rotates 25% (a quarter) by curling your wrist in, where your wrist is turning to 11 o’clock. As you fire back up, the wrist opens back up to 1 o’clock. By developing wrist control from 1 o’clock to 11 o’clock to 1 o’clock and not over opening your wrist past 1 o’clock when you fire out, or curing past 11 o’clock as you come down to center, you’ll develop a consistent sufficiently-powerful spin putt technique. Then you can explore learning how to fire of your back foot, timing with your back foot, how much weight transfer or load happens, pending how far you are from the basket, etc. Another important thing to develop as your snapping your wrist is committing to a full follow-through and “holding it” at the top to build muscle memory to not short-arm it, especially when you are nervous.
