Conquer Windy Conditions on the Disc Golf Course | Level Up - Season Two

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what's up everybody Brian airheart here with Team disc craft in the disc golf Network and you're watching another episode of level up today we are at the iconic tobogan course here in Michigan and today we're going to talk about wind and how we can better play in windy conditions let's do it before I jump into how we play different wind conditions and wind directions I first want to talk about something that I see overlooked so often by amateurs all the way up to professional players and that is the direction in which you're checking the wind I see most players checking the wind based off of where the teapad is facing and not where they're actually going to throw initially not everybody is throwing a laser beam that's pointed the same direction as the teapad so what you need to do is you need to walk up to the teapad visualize your shot and say I'm Lefty I'm swinging a big Hiser out to the left rather than throwing straight I need to check the wind in the direction that my Heiser is about to go that way you get a much better read cuz I mean a a headwind that comes straight off the teapad is not going to be a headwind the moment you offset the way you're throwing the disc so now this is going to be a head crosswind so this right here it seems common sense but I see it overlooked so often I felt I had to start out by mentioning that next I want to talk about a common phrase that I heard all the time growing up when I was learning the sport for the very first time and make a little bit of an adjustment to it the original phrase that I used to hear all the time was that headwinds lift and Tailwinds drop now in some cases that's true but we see it most evidently on the putting green where a player who maybe push putts with a little little nose down does not get a lift from a headwind the headwind is going to push against the front of the disc and shove it into the ground on the other hand yes if you are maybe a nose-up spin putter you're going to get a little lift from the headwind CU the headwind is...