I wish my hips could rotate like that.

I am so badly uncoordinated even the first steps are so hard, I have been practicing every day for hours and I still cant get the hip rotation and brace correct.

This is a fantastic series. Thank you so much.

Great form break down brotha - great form Joe! Haha Go Team Fly Green!

Hmm.. would this work with keeping the disc at the pec all the time then rip it, rather than reaching back and guiding it in first?

I already have since discovering it recently, but I have a feeling I'm going to return to this video a LOT over the years

That's exactly the issue I've been struggling, yanking the disc from the very back and missing the power pocket. Thank you!

I’ve been trying to get my leg to look like the pros with the bent in action forever and never understood how they were doing it. This is the key!!!

omg I'm so glad I found this because this 100% me and never realized it. People would tell me "you're letting your shoulder collapse" but I did not know what that meant or how to fix it. Thanks so much for this and now to fix it!

Hope you're doing well loop. Miss your videos

So basicly the pros are guiding it to the pocket super fast, making it look like theyre rippin it already, to the untrained eye?

You know, i was thinking about your old name, heavy disc. It reminded me of how you used to talk about the disc feeling heavy. Do you have any videos talking about how to feel the disc getting heavy?

Juice is keeping you big as hell!

Great explanation! Thanks

Important things in life.

Your knee has rubber bands in it.

Mindblowing.

I was just struggling with feeling the momentum/weight when bracing and then the algorithm gave me this - thanks!

My big issue is that I tend to lean over my brace. Any thoughts on how to fix that?

The first two videos in this series is what got me from 300ft to 400ft and to a tremendously better understanding of form, momentum shift and throwing mechanincs. Thank you so much. I've stayed with the first 2 vids for like 3 months time to move on

I just got mindblown. 🤯 Good stuff

Grate advice! Thanks

With all the technique videos out there now THIS IS THE BEST explanation I’ve ever seen. I’ve watched many of your videos over the past few years. This is repeatable. As an amateur, I especially like your thoughts on just throwing a standstill or shortening my x step to fit my stride length and flexibility. Thank you for your years of effort and the outstanding content over the years.

GG is like a trebuchet creating a counterweight stall with his shoulders and a sling stall with his arm. the most effective trebuchets time the sling stall and counterweight stall together to throw further. unlike other pros like AB and pre injury Lizotte who rubber band and whips it, or like Paige Pierce, Heimburg, and maybe new Simon who focuses more on creating a strong centrifugal force the disc gets trapped in (classic wide to close to spin faster figure skater meme but actually literally and coiled up to the shoulder), increasing it by throwing their weight around instead of down like GG or forward like seppu paju. but its all a spectrum and you can mix the styles up like putting

Hi Loop, do you still recommend this far of an elbow extension? I'm having a tough time getting through this spot in my game. I should be absolutely crushing my shots with my leverage (7ft tall) but I can't seem to break 350-375' (Beat wraith or tern on flat release) consistently without throwing a distance anny or flex. Like 315-340 with a teebird or river. When my arm is too loose pocket collapse and I only get 300~ maybe. I can't seem to get my mids over 300 consistently. Trying to throw with more velocity results in turn and burn. My best shot ever was a 410' laser beam 8' off the ground and I have no idea how I did it because I barely threw the disc but it just flew like crazy. I feel that I can generate the power and have good leg mechanics as I have played hockey left handed my whole life and throw right as all of the above shot distances are not trying to throw hard. I can turn and burn neutral 9-10 speeds into the ground when I try to throw with more velocity. I feel that the spin is lacking here (Not OAT as the discs don't flutter out of the hand). I feel I'm just missing a key step and not using my arm properly. Looking at videos of myself I am not getting the elbow forward and getting into that deep pocket position. My arm starts the extension mid chest at best. I think this deep pocket is where I need to get to so that I can put enough spin on the discs to get them to glide further and stay straighter. Compressing that acceleration into a smaller space towards the hit should allow for more spin with the speed. Any advice to try and get this elbow far forward? Go slow and feel it out? Do you think trying to "lock" your upper arm almost into a more open position >90 Upper arm to torso and just leave the lower half of the arm loose? maybe trying to push that elbow out further would be the ticket?

Trying so hard to understand this. Focusing on the power pocket just makes me strong arm it and the top of my right bicep feels very strained. When I dont focus on it, I play pain free, even though I start the acceleration way early

Anyone that throws their left arm like that, at that specific timing certainly watched videos on the mechanics of form. That movement is wholly unnatural and has to be learned.

Enjoyed this, excellent description

Hey man, seriously thank you thank you for this! I’m 36 and new to the sport and my throwing shoulder was quickly, and not so subtly, letting me know that I must be doing something wrong and that there might be an actual method to this madness. I love the analytical breakdown and your practical guide. Thank you!

Still come back to this video from time to time. Thanks for helping pioneer disc golf form in a time that not much info was available on it.

Hi Loopghost. I know this is and old video but do you recall what size Klean Canteen you were using here?

So this plagues me and zaps all my power - its not in the reach back but in the turn and I cant stop it. How do your legs play a part in this because i surmise my last step is too wide as well.

I think I just found my holy grail of youtube content.

This is awesome!!! Do you make these videos anymore??

@loopghost more disc golf instruction please!!! You’re one of the best!

Hey there so going back to your older videos, how do you feel about these or the right pec drills. Are you still thinking these are all valid with what you know now?

Yo David goggins is a different beast. We all fall short compared to him. He's shit himself running a marathon on shin splints. If you didn't listen to the audiobook you should. There's a lot more content as he kind of hosts a podcast with his ghost writer between chapters.

So happy to see new content. Nice glasses

Good effort man, all we can do is try and get better right? Nice work!

Those are some sick glasses.

You throw farther now?

💡 moment!! Love this!!!

Im not sure if its just the angle playing tricks, but isn't your brace behind your back foot in this? I was under the impression the brace is always supposed to be staggered forward not back, I know you are a keeper of the ancient wisdoms in DG so thats why im asking!

Great video!!

Update?

cold atmosphere will contract the flight plate and alter the flight. air is also more dense. I wouldn't bother doing a review in temperatures so cold that you need to dress warm, as it's not indicative of how it will fly when most are playing.

What I think, doing the x-step as a beginner is doing more harm than good. I have started to believe that the purpose of the x-step is only getting the body into a "spring" and then the weight sift and right foot plant is only there for "triggering the spring" to unleash like a bat out of hell. However what I have noted, is that when doing the x-step walk, it seem to be harder to get my body into a loaded spring position than if I just do as you did on the video; rock momentum back and for in stand still and then just a short step forward with my right foot and boom! So, I think, that one must master this stand still momentum back and forth -shift BEFORE implementing the x-step. Anyone else having the same thoughts or am I just totally in the woods? Thanks again for the great content!

2:09 should you not pivot your foot? That looks very stressful on the knee

What song is playing in this video?

Is your wife Amy Schumer?