Okay today I'd like to talk about a way for disc golfers to get more distance.
Now the thing I'm talking about basically is going to be for drives but
it's the same thing for putts. How to get more acceleration at the end of
your throw, the tip of the whip so to speak. They're telling you to reach back
which I don't advocate at all and a really good example of not having to
reach back and still throwing 79 miles an hour is
Seppo Paju. He doesn't reach back you know he winds up and yeah you do have to wind up
your shoulders and that's a key to getting more distance is winding up your levers.
Got a lot of levers you know. You got your hips your winding up your hips like
here. There's one of your levers. Your shoulders, another one of your levers. So
you wind the shoulder back, you don't have to reach back because you're just
gonna have to come in here anyway but you can if you want to if it makes
you feel good. It's basically you can think of power from here down. You're
developing power but also there's speed going along there too and momentum and
all your body weight and stuff that you want behind the whip and the whip occurs
basically right here from shoulder down
This upper part, the power part pretty muscular, the whip part is pretty loose.
It's almost as if it's like a an actual whip you know I don't have it doesn't
have any muscles in it. It's carrying the disc and it's got rhythm and it's got
all those levers working but there's not a lot of muscles going on in there until
you stop, okay? You're pulling the whip with your shoulder okay? You're not
pulling a whip with your arm so much you're pulling the whip with your
shoulder and you let that thing whip. Where most of the acceleration occurs is
not with your shoulders and it's not as your arm comes. Most of the acceleration
the important acceleration that really makes, that sets apart the top
throwers from the next tier is the tip of that whip. That's where the disc is
pivoting like this and then it's ripping out.
We're looking at the graph of the acceleration of a sling and the
acceleration of a whip. Velocity is the vertical axis and time is the horizontal
axis and as you can see in the sling the acceleration increases evenly over time.
On the right is the illustration of the acceleration curve for the whip. As you
can see it's fairly even at first and right at the end where the pivot begins
the acceleration increases significantly such that the disc is leaving at 60 mile
an hour plus. So the disc is pivoting, it rips out against you're stopped wrist
and then it bounces off of your fingers downfield. Like that.