The Great One-on-One: Reaching Back is EASY (when you don't reach back.)

[@heehaw123]

I have watched way ro many KZbin form,critic,clinic, style videos. Alot of them are great. Thankfully Spin is 1.

[@dgspindoctor]

I'm glad this is not a competition, but thanks anyway!!

[@JuiceboxEconomics]

That was a whole new way of thinking about what the shoulders do for me. Can't wait to hit the links and try it!

[@bustatron]

I liked the "turn not reach back, always going forward". That actually clicked for me, and it feels a lot more comfortable and repeatable. I was trying to "reach back" and it was fuxking with my momentum. Very good point.

[@hyzer_bombdlx4776]

I’ve been playing for years, only maxing out to 489. Up until today I’ve never heard the bicep curl method. You just added another 70 feet to my game. You are the man!

[@dgspindoctor]

What?! That's incredible!

[@roryjohnson4126]

Thank you for the straight forward approach. Bringing the “frisbee spirit” back to the KZbin form world! You’re crushing it with your videos and I am looking forward to more!

[@dgspindoctor]

This is the best compliment a semi old school disc golfer can have. DG ain't what it used to be (back in 2000) when I started, but we can always choose how to present it even now!

[@clarke8554]

So I've watched everyone up to this point. And I've been practicing as I'm watching. It all feels right now and the timing makes so much more sense. The shoulder reach back with the front foot turned slightly back just clicked. Thank you so much

[@dgspindoctor]

Thanks for the comment!

[@mccsnackin]

Agreed

[@mccsnackin]

I’ve had my best throws with my foot angle more acute. And focus on shoulder rotation.

[@andrewwinbear]

Somebody just hooked me up with this channel and holy hell did this click with me. Had a 10 stroke improvement and some of my best throws from his coaching.

[@dgspindoctor]

Major steps! Thanks.

[@ChristopherLoverich]

This is a hard one to teach. Leaving the disc in place helps, but you can still actively reach back while doing that; I found one day i relaxed more, or maybe waited "too long" and felt how my body weight began pulling the disc forward -- from them on it was easier to start tuning by feel and learn how passive the "reach back" actually is. I think maybe Simons "shorter" throws could be a good example for some to find the feeling, where he has hardly any reach back at all, and throws 300-400. Great content.

[@jawshwillis4288]

Great video. I’ve been keeping most of my weight off my front leg until I start my rotation into the power pocket, and you’re right, I have to rotate like hell to get the disc to launch. Can’t wait to try your suggestion.

[@Latitude30Four]

Always go forward. That clicked. Thank you.

[@kevindonn10]

Excellent Thanks for this. So simple

[@dbartley52808]

This was great! Thanks

[@jasonphillips3817]

I'm entirely focused on my hand when I think about reaching back, so I will start focusing on the shoulder push instead to try and get my "shoulder coiled" instead of my "arm back". Thank you!

[@dgspindoctor]

There is so much to this, but that is the starting point. For advanced players I teach nothing more than taking the stride and pushing the disc towards the side of the teepad. For many the coil happens anyway, it's in the instincts. Like throwing a ball, and then throwing harder... you will "reach back" more without even thinking about it.

[@johnsd333]

Excellent instruction thank you my friend

[@WilliamLamyPhotographe]

Fantastic advice, can’t wait to go practice this in the field!

[@Dr.Acula101]

Videos are great for beginners thank you somuch!

[@dgspindoctor]

Thanks! They are my main target.

[@FriarChambers]

You are a tremendous teacher. Thank you for the individual steps, and then the clear explanation of how to put it all together. You make the mysterious understandable. Great stuff!

[@dgspindoctor]

Thanks for watching and this appraisal!

[@drewg3087]

So glad I found your videos, very helpful. Thanks for all you do.

[@micdavey]

Jaani, these are so good! I have watched so many coaching videos on here over the past year, and yours are much more informative yet simple, relatable, and they stay in my mind. That's not an easy thing to do! Honestly, we should paying for these.

[@dgspindoctor]

Thank you! I honestly think that throwing should be simple and that there is no need to make it look complicated, or that I possess some unattainable wisdom which I sprinkle around sparsely. Thank you for watching!

[@danielcockerspaniel]

Right?! I’ve watched everything from schusterick to sexton and none of them teach this. So good!! Also great shirt!

[@dgspindoctor]

Thanks! I still think I tell you nothing new, but the same old stuff with different words.

[@ChrisSolarski]

Great content, as always!

[@cepponen81]

Jaani, you're just pure gold! As a beginner, I've watched loads of videos about "proper“ technique and what not, but after watching your videos (old and new stuff), I finally started to understand things and got that fun back into my game. Great job! 😎👍🏻

[@dgspindoctor]

Most fun wins, right? 😀

[@cepponen81]

@@dgspindoctor Absolutely 👍🏻

[@nathannwendycharboneau9849]

Many thanks for the content. I’m new and have trouble keeping the nose down. It’s late so I won’t throw today but after watching ur forehand. Grip. And these two backhand videos I’m excited to see how my game improves. Love n hugz from USA.

[@dgspindoctor]

The pivot is good for the backhand too. If not no make it as your primary grip, you can practice the feel with it.

[@mikahallikainen]

GO GO Jaani. This series is awesome and big thx for your energy to show us what a hell we need to do =)

[@kruksog]

Where have you been? I've needed you for so long 😭

[@dgspindoctor]

I was practicing and taking notes so that I can spread the knowledge I gained.

[@drudy18]

good stuff

[@vincestahl3554]

Brilliant!

[@mrfairino6862]

good stuff

[@unbuesking]

Love the content and the different philosophy of keeping it simple. I tend to overthink things and aim for perfection and your statement from another video about that slowing things down resonated with me because I've been told in other training that I need to get a bit quicker where I'm also overthinking things. I'm going to try to simplify and can't wait to get to a field and try. Keep up the great content!

[@dgspindoctor]

Look at Albert Tamm and do like he does. Lazy walk, down on the front leg and boom.

[@jcrow62]

I like your style dude. Keep it simple. I’m playing better right now with standstills just keeping it simple. Can’t wait to try your wet towel drill.😊

[@bsartias7737]

Commenting just to comment. Great videos

[@justinunderwood2572]

After our Instagram chat, and seeing you do this in video again, it is starting to click! Now, just gotta put it into place!

[@conrad_yt]

Always look forward to your uploads. Great analysis, thank you! Do you think its 100% required to straighten your arm during the "reachback"/Rotation? Or can it stay loose and bent in whatever shape is comfortable and have the same whip effect?

[@dgspindoctor]

Thanks! Well, if Alex Geisinger and Seppo Paju can reach over 600+ feet with their bent arm, it's safe to say it is not necessary to straighten the arm. I prefer not to put too much thought in it, just keep the elbow out and the arm fairly loose, and it will do what is natural.

[@danielcockerspaniel]

Liked and subscribed!

[@RupertGriffin1]

Love it

[@noahhardesty3035]

At 5:04 how is he not reaching back? I’m struggling to understand it because when you watch the pros that disc never moves but at this point it looks like a reach back

[@dgspindoctor]

It's semantics. I'm not pushing the disc anywhere or bending the lower back to reach farther. All I do is stride forward and turn my torso, so that the disc (or the hand) naturally stays in place. It's a different mind set than "reaching" back.

[@niklasespelund5929]

Awesome content!! whats your thought on slingshot disc golf approach? (back leg discgolf) atleast how he describes it.

[@dgspindoctor]

Thanks. Each to their own. I prefer not to say more.

[@jerkwagon]

its clearly not his cup of tea and he said he was thats another story for another video.. the back leg theory is controversal, because people some how thing there is only 1 god and only 1 way to throw a disc.. and if you do it differently well it must be wrong? but theres more than 1 way to throw a disc. hes just teaching his way.

[@niklasespelund5929]

Yes ofc im just wondering since i dont know. and want some guidance. Thats it. I love the way that spin doctor is teaching. Very easy to understand.!

[@niklasespelund5929]

Since I come from golf. im very familiar with weightshift. from backfoot to front foot. And before backswing is done weightshift should have already happened. That is what creates lag. would be cool to see discgolf using some body tracking and pressure plates to see what it actually happens. Not what it looks like. The way you see gears works for golf.

[@dgspindoctor]

Well, his method is certainly controversial. More so, because there is not a single professional disc golfer who throws standing on the back leg. But who knows, maybe they don't know any better. I am certainly not teaching that.

[@RBadding]

Jaani has escaped the winter.

[@dgspindoctor]

Very much so.

[@jounilehto8078]

Thanks! I have huge problems with rounding, my shoulders dont turn properly. This little "push" with shoulder might be a salution,

[@dgspindoctor]

I will make a video about small details later, but here's something for that: push the shoulder "out of the socket", meaning that you really push the shoulder forward to make your arm even longer. Then you create more space and better leverage. You can also consciously open the elbow and swing the disc out of your chest as you start the throw, or a millisecond before that actually. Like Eagle does, or pre 2016 Will Schusterick.

[@jounilehto8078]

@@dgspindoctor Tänks Jaani!

[@snapcase72]

Kiitos! Nice video! Hey, I recognise that place...it's Kiruna, right?

[@dgspindoctor]

It's in Colombia.

[@diegovalero8441]

@@dgspindoctor Are you going to visit Bogota? Here we have a community that is growing 🥏

[@dgspindoctor]

Yes, I am. Hit me up on Instagram.

[@professionalgiraffe]

I watched a video by Paige Pierce where she demonstrated that starting with your weight 90% on your back leg, then using the momentum of shifting the weight onto the front leg during the throw adds a lot of power. But here it sounds like that is a bad thing. Where am I going wrong?

[@dgspindoctor]

How else do you get to the front leg than being on the rear leg for a while? And not 90%, it's a 100% when the front leg is in the air, right? Also in the Paige clip. The confusion is this: people think, that you should PUSH off the back leg, which results first to leaning over it and then yanking the upper body over the brace. That simply doesn't work like that. Other issue is, when people think you have to push your rear leg forward after the front leg is on the ground. What happens, is that the front leg gets lighter and not bracing, because you are pushing the back leg - the pressure increases in the back, decreases in the front, and even Paige is on her front leg completely in reality. I can't say what Paige meant by that, but anyway it was very confusingly said.

[@frankneuhof1695]

[@sarinhighwind]

Use backswing vs reach back. Reach back gives a bad que like you're saying.

[@gamerguy765]

I second this . Very clean way of talking about that part of the throw without and tainting phrases like reaching .

[@dgspindoctor]

I really hate the word, but are we able to change it? I am all for shoulder turn, or what ever the word would be, other than the reach back.

[@sarinhighwind]

@DG Spin Doctor a lot of youtubers have started trying to say backswing. Its hard to pull off the accepted terminology, but with time we will all make a difference

[@dgspindoctor]

Let's do it!