The New One Leg Drill

[@dwmichaels]

I love the wordy conversations. I get to see your thought patterns and how you walk through from point to point.

[@_TDG]

Thanks a ton! Glad someone appreciates the long form…

[@ubrant6747]

I appreciate your openess and willingness to evolve your thinking, speaking, and methods of teaching over time. You are doing great work!

[@Gen2Rev]

I agree the fact that he’s willing to admit when he’s wrong or miss spoken on certain issues, makes me continue to follow his channel because he’s more concerned with proper technique than being right.

[@_TDG]

Wow. Thank you! I love comments like this…

[@KyleLivingood]

Thanks for this!! A lot of good feels that I haven’t been able to get before - I already feel my hips tired after doing this progression!

[@_TDG]

Isnt it crazy how quick those new muscles we were not using can get fatigued?!

[@johnnyhotkeyz]

Mind. Blown.

[@_TDG]

Awesome! Let me know how working on it goes!

[@Rydal1]

Hi sir! I throw now 267ft, is it possible to improve to reach 300ft?

[@jerkwagon]

100% owen is a great coach!

[@_TDG]

I would say that sounds pretty doable. Post a link to a clip of your throw and I'll take a look!

[@dwmichaels]

I won't say 300' is easy, but my experience has been that it is attainable by almost anyone. The better your form, the less stress on your body. I'd bet that you could improve your nose down angle and that would get you close. Getting to 350' and above is a bigger challenge and seems to have some more stringent criteria. :) BTW, I'm in that 330' range. Maybe more, but it's not consistent.

[@robertsoliz6821]

Are you wearing lems shoes? Do you have a favorite disc golf shoe?

[@_TDG]

Yep. Those are lems. I usually golf in a different pair: the mens primal pursuit mid waterproof. Ive had a hell of a time finding something marketed as water proof that is actually waterproof at all. Those ones did ok for a while though and the company was good about sending me a replacement pair when the water proofing on mine died abruptly after less than a year of wear.

[@robertsoliz6821]

@@_TDG oh that's awesome! I really want to try some lems, I actually wish the primal pursuit low version was waterproof cuz that'd be my everyday shoe! I tried the xero mesa trail WP and tested them in the tub they were waterproof but very stiff and unfortunately half a size too small in my normal size. Had to send them back. I've heard altra lone peak waterproofs are hit or miss on the actual waterproofness.

[@Gen2Rev]

I think my right hip moves back but I do spin out with my left side causing me to leak power. Could this be more of an axis or plant issue than hip?

[@_TDG]

I think axis plant and hip are all way more interrelated than you are thinking…

[@_TDG]

General advice for that would be to let your plant foot find a spot that is further towards the toeside than you are used to.

[@Gen2Rev]

I will try that, thanks!

[@hcrubjeff]

Hi, I enjoy listening to your disc-plainers. I normally do not comment. I understand that you are trying to isolate the top half in your drill of the backhand throw. I think that many of your demonstrations are a form of rounding. Your rear hip and shoulders are moving together. The feeling of being properly coiled becomes more important in this type of isolation drill. The separation between the bottom of the ribs where the rear hip is pushing forward and the shoulders are feeling like a ferris wheel not a merry go round is missing. You might want to kick stand the rear leg so you have something to coil against. Your two leg drills later in the video would be easier to get into a properly coiled starting position.

[@_TDG]

Yep. I think you’re on to something. Rear hip and shoulders moving together is partly a function of that being a weak spot in my throw and partly a function that simplifying the spine twist allows more focus on the hips, which are the part we are focusing on here. We simply cannot coil standing on only the front leg. So that part of the throw is absent in these drills.

[@_TDG]

Kickstanding the rear leg is not what I want in this step of the drill- the one leg part. I am focused on the internal rotation of the rear leg and allowing the leg to reposition towards the target. Letting the rear hip drive that motion passively by way of harnessing its momentum and redirecting it around the front hip socket is the thing we are trying to feel here. When you let people put the rear foot down they inevitably start trying to shift weight from back foot to front. That breaks everything this drill is trying to build because the weight shift causes the front leg to either rotate which we dont want or bend which we dont want at first.

[@_TDG]

I dont quite understand what you mean ‘the separation between the bottom of the ribs’ can you clarify? Also dont understand the ferris wheel vs merry go round part. I get that you are talking about orientation but I dont want the shoulders vertical or horizontal so I dont get your point. Can you film yourself doing both your kickstand variation and a true one leg that demonstrates the coil you want to see? I would love to see what you are describing. Thanks for the comment!

[@_TDG]

Ok. Thinkin bout this more… Perhaphs you have helped me clarify something: i said this drill is about learning how to organize your body around a static brace leg. That may not quite be accurate. Its really about learning how to really make the momentum in your pelvis into your power source. That mostly linear momentum is concerted into rotational momentum by way of a static (in the drill) brace. In a full throw that brace is not static but dynamic and active.

[@_TDG]

Tldr: I make a drill that is about generating power from the hips the way I want to see it happen in my model of the throw. You say Im not generating any power from spine twist. I say you are correct thats not what the drill is about at all. Am I missing anything here?

[@bustatron]

I keep thinking you will smack your hand on something.

[@_TDG]

You are not the only one. I will be more careful, the concern is appreciated!