Hey everyone. Bradley Williams here with a 60 Second Blitz. First question neophost17 asks
"What's your favorite course in Austin to play?" My favorite course to play in Austin in Silker
Park. It's located downtown. You get a nice backdrop of the city. It's a beautiful park. It's
got two nine hole sections divided by the park entrance and it's a pitch and plot on the front
nine and a little bit longer distance on the back. It's good variety it's a good place to introduce a
new player or friends or just have some fun. It's a great place to play. Number two. owen_miller_3
"What's your favorite disc?" TeeBird3. It's dependable. I can use it for backhand,
sidearm flicks. I can throw it high, I can throw it low. It's a really consistent mold. Feels good
in the hand. It's a good speed so you can do a lot with the TeeBird3. All right pdga167809.
"How do you stay focused during tournament rounds?" Well as soon as they pop that two
minute horn, heart's racing, blood's pumping, I'm on a heightened I have a heightened sense
already. I'm almost as focused as I'm going to be once that that two-minute
horn gets sounded it's all about keeping calm, trying to keep the heart rate low,
make sure you're breathing, make sure you're not overthinking. It's about managing like your
thoughts and your kind of like your I don't know your biomechanics. It's like it's all about being
chill right? Making sure you're thinking about your breath, you're feeling the breath come
into your chest, let it fill up your body, let it exhale, close your eyes. Sometimes
feeling grounded like putting both feet evenly on the ground like distributing your weight equally
you're not like a lot of times when you get nervous you get fidgety you start leaning on
one leg and you're feeling off centered you want to find your center of gravity and stay centered
throughout the round. manbott115 "How do I stop my plant foot from turning forward
instead of staying perpendicular?" Well you want your foot to rotate through the swing. When you
plant it you want to be you want it to be away from the target so you can have more rotation on
your hips. So you're not looking to just keep your foot planted you're looking to rotate.
What you can do is you can do some hip drills. If you want you can just stand up tall and then turn
your hips left and right in like a circular motion and that should help free up some of
the blockage in your hips and get you to be turning away from your target and planting.
fronkjd he asks "What's the best way to use the non-throwing side of my body to power a throw?"
I think the best way to use the the opposite side of your body is to encourage it to rotate
into the swing so like make sure that you're not just like rotating with or trying to pull
and separate your chest or back. You want to you want the other side of your body to rotate
with you and some people throw their hands forward some people put it next to their hip
so it's not like slowing them down but try to get your other side involved try to get it to rotate.
eric_is_a_good_name asks "If not disc golf what are you doing with your life?" Well travel is
something that I would be doing regardless. That's one of the reasons I play disc golf is because
you travel to play disc golf, gives you a reason to travel so I would be traveling in some form.
I like photography and and if I could get a job maybe filming or on a film crew or something I
would do that. danksy.discgolf "I've never thrown an Innova mold what should I throw?"
Well based on the profile photo, it looks like you try pretty hard so
I would say try a TeeBird3 or a Roadrunner. Star Roadrunner, Star TeeBird3. Looks like those are
my favorite discs to recommend to people maybe a TL3 too, just depends on how far you throw. If
you throw in 300 foot range, that's what I would try. Alright jacevaart this could be a foreigner
not sure. "What's the tour series disc this year?" I don't know you know you
have a guess. Alright so ferretdance03 asks "You lean heavily on neutral mid-ranges,
what about strong headwinds or short flex shots." Well I like I would club up to my Firebird. So I
have a Champion Firebird with that slot anytime the wind gets heavy i usually go up in speed.
So the firebird is where I lean. I actually I have I have a few Star TeeBirds that I got, first run
TeeBirds with the Avery Jenkins signature on them. They're really overstable. I use the Star Savant.
It's good for flex shots into the wind and it's a little bit longer than a mid,
especially when the wind starts picking up so that's what I'm gonna reach for.
zg_xc_tr "Oldest disc in your bag?" The oldest disc in my bag currently is an 11x KC Roc that
was gifted to me. It's been passed down through many players and now I have it. Still flying great
and that's currently, it's the oldest disc in my bag.
Here it is a gem, legendary disc the KC Roc. This was all the craze in 2007. When I started playing
everyone that had been playing for a while had one in their bag or talked about getting one.
It was notorious on the course to have like an 11x KC Roc so now I've got one.
dawsnsteele. "Describe your journey to achieving one of the silkiest backhand forms in the game?"
Well I started by looking at Ken Climo and Barry Schultz. They both had very smooth deliberate
swings. They were they were balanced throughout their swing and that's that was my main goal to
add that sort of finesse to my own style but through previous sports like basketball,
cross country, motocross, bmx I always like to have like sort of a finesse
flowy style and that translated well into disc golf so that's that's how I went about that.
ryanhuselton, he asks "If you could bring one out of production
out of production disc back into production what would it be?" Well what is out of production
when I started playing in 2008 in 2007 the interval had just came out with like the
star TeeRex and then they had the Star Wraith and then they had like the Champion Boss and then the
Destroyer came out and then somewhere in that in that era they released the Max and the marketing
hype at the time was you would never need another disc into a headwind it was the most dependable
high speed basically you take the stability of an overstable Firebird and you give it the
same wing or speed as like a distance driver like a mat like a Destroyer like a 12 12-speed
disc that had all the stability of a Firebird so it was like an ultra Firebird if you will.
Alright andreas_stamdg "How come the cactus?" He's a fan himself he's a fan of the cactus. So
i live in a hispanic community and Nopalito was a word that was thrown around in the parking lot
whenever I was around to describe myself and all I can remember from the early days was
I kept to myself I was focused I tried to win at all costs and I just wasn't overly friendly.
If I was playing for money so those guys are a little bit more laid back they like to talk they
like to kind of shoot the ... with the boys but I just sort of like did my own thing and I was
better than them. I have definitely evolved and changed the strategy. I like to I enjoy
the company of other players, I root on shots the good and bad. I'm not so in my own world
these days so I have changed. The cactus is a little softer. scewedview. "How did you refine
your form aside from practice and throwing like what drills and what exercises did you work on?"
So the first thing that I learned how to do was throw the disc high in the sky like
we started off with putters and we would play like long range catch and we were trying to throw the
putter as hard and as high as we could and get it to fly as long as we could so we were learning a
lot about nose angles and which angles you needed to throw the disc on to get the disc to tip and
and like turn away from its fade pattern so that was like and that was the most fun way to play
because you didn't have to throw it very far you just had to throw it high so it took up. It was
just a fun way to do it. Once we got the hang of that then it was learning how to throw it very low
and very flat so throwing very low to the ground and as far as you could so those were the two
starting points for me that i remember vividly and I would recommend it to anyone. doctorfrolf
what's the secret to throwing mids?" The secret to throwing mids.
This is something that I would like that I kind of remember and I would I could I
could recommend would be throwing the disc slightly nose up and slightly turned over,
just a hint so you're not really you're not really hyzering it. You're sort of just you're playing
the disc immediately out of your hand into a turn pattern with the with the disc slightly nose up
and that's a really nice way to start learning how to throw mids." jimboyojimbo "What tips can
you give for using rollers? What tips can you give for using rollers?" If you want to try to
use rollers more often, just do it for fun. Don't do it for score. Just go out and throw a roller on
a hole because you can, like between holes try to throw forehand rollers down the trail if you
if you're walking with your friends, lag behind try to throw a forehand roller through their legs
like just try to get rollers out in your game because you're not gonna you're not gonna do
them unless you're having fun and the way the best way to get good at rollers just have fun doing it
throw them, goof around have a laugh, roll a disc. I recommend the Star Roadrunner to start with.
Alright so acwilliby02. "Tips for putting in a tailwind? "Well you want to increase the spin.
You want the disc to be rotating faster, you want to putt the disc pretty flat so when it's
flying through the air you want it to be flat and you would put a little bit higher sometimes
just in case you didn't get that extra spin on it but a little bit higher but mostly it's more spin
and flat. allanhrabia "Are you still throwing the Nova?" Currently not using the Nova. I've switched
to standard DX Aviars for 2021 but I will tell you that I have seen some nice Novas at the store,
the factory Innova Store and the Nova could be coming back for 2022. Okay so j_lokant_16 asks
"Favorite course and favorite pros to have on your card?" My favorite courses to play are the Milo
east and West course Milo McIver East and West outside of Portland, Oregon. They're in Estacada.
They're beautiful, they're balanced. There's a lot of different shots. They're unique and
they've been around for a long time so I've seen a lot of old-school pros play. I remember seeing Ken
Climo play on that course. Barry Schultz um all the way up to the Philo Albatross. There's a
lot of history there and it's wonderful. As far as favorite pros. O like pros who are competitive and
don't get too attached to like bad shots or good shots. They stay more neutral and upbeat.
It's because they're good examples and they're fun to play with. So Alden Harris and Chris
Clemons are two that I can think of right now that have been fun to play with last season. bear_trd
"What's your go-to disc for when you're in a pickle?" The Star Roadrunner is my get out of
jail free card disc. I can use it for standstill shots, I can use it for rollers, I can use it
for tomahawks, I can use it for hyzerflips. I can side arm it it's it can that's my all-around get
out of jail free cards the Roadrunner. ucf_disc golf wants to know what's my favorite hole 18.
That is a good question. Off the top of my head I think USDGC hole 18 is my favorite currently
just because of how demanding it is. You know if I had more time to think about it and think about
all the hole 18s I've ever played there could be another one but just off the top of my head it's
such a nerve-wracking hole and it takes a lot of focus and commitment to finish out that hole
and I really like that. "So what is the one disc you could bring back
and if you can have any disc in halo plastic what would it be?" I'd like to see Halo Aviar
see what that would be like kind of cool just to see what a nice Star Aviar would be like in Halo.
And then as far as like what disc I would bring back I think the Max would be a cool disc to bring
back. So dassi007 wants to know what my preferred sandwich is. I usually lean towards a Reuben or
an Italian sandwich when I go out and sandwich places. The reuben it's kind of nice because
it's warm so if it's a cold day or something it's kind of refreshing to have something warm
and I like the sauce. And then the italian how can you go wrong with the italian. mariano_f_c wants
to know "Any tips to getting perfect form like yours? You're by far my favorite touring player?"
Form like mine. Hey just over over extend your follow through and have your left hand
flare out beside you, makes you look like a much better player than you really are,
helps me tons. All right guys that wraps up the 60 Second Blitz with Bradley Williams.
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