Form Foundations - Upper Body

Video Transcript

hey guys hunter here with foundation disc golf in today's video we're going to be continuing our series of form foundations and we're going to be talking about the upper body and the reach back and pull through for the backhand drive all right so as always i recommend whenever you're working on your form whether it's reworking or learning try to throw some slower more understable plastic i have a beat up pa3 a slightly beat up m3 and an f5 that i'll be working with today as if i was rebuilding my form as i walk you through these steps so in the last video we walked through the the footwork side of it and then i gave you a few drills we're gonna be doing the same thing but all these drills will be focused on your hips up so let's go ahead and first just kind of break down what should be happening with your upper body as you throw um the main part that we're going to be talking about is the reach back and then the pull through okay so the first thing we're going to talk about is the reach back the majority of you probably know that when you get into this position to throw your arm should be fully extended back okay the part that a lot of people get hung up on and that goes wrong is how you get to your position where you reach back so i'm going to talk about two main problems that i see and explain why you shouldn't be doing those and kind of what you should be doing the first problem that i see is people with two hands on their discs so you reach back and i have both hands on my disc right i'm in the right position you know i'm reached away from my target line which is this way and but i have both hands what's the problem here uh it's limiting how far i can reach back right so if i have both hands on my disc this is as far as i can reach back right if i let my left hand go like i'm supposed to and i should it allows me to open my shoulders more and push that disc farther back on the same line so now i'm here versus here all right so...