Day 18: How to get Maximum Distance | Gatekeeper Media's New Year's Resolutions
Gatekeeper Media's Day 18: Focuses on mastering long-distance throwing techniques for optimal flight and stability. Join a seasoned disc golfer as they explore different types of distance drivers, including overstable, straight-flying, and flippy options, to achieve maximum distance. With an emphasis on good mechanics and technique, this video breaks down the importance of maintaining a consistent release point and angle throughout the throw. The expert discusses how to balance flight time with height to maximize glide, while avoiding common issues like stalling and over-flipping. By analyzing various discs and throws, viewers will gain insight into how to optimize their own distance shots and improve their overall disc golf performance.
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welcome back to gatekeeper media's new year's resolutions it is january 18th and today we're going to do something that everyone thinks of as field work but let's be a little bit more specific about throwing distance shots get three different kinds of distance drivers ideally something that you have multiples of so that you can school up on subsequent shots i'm going to use a force for overstable a nuke for pretty straight and a crank for something that's flippy we're going to try to work backwards from the end of the flight to where our release is one really critical part about doing field work is keeping good mechanics this isn't just about throwing distance it's about optimizing the way our flight and our release are for a distant shot to have full effect you want it to stay on anhyzer for a really long time and only get back to heiser or flat just at the end consider distant shots to be the balance of flight time versus height the longer you can keep it in the air the more opportunity it has to fly but if you throw it too high you're going to get to kind of a stalling angle the disc is effectively a wing and if it's not generating enough lift for its design speed and stability it's going to end up hyzering out let me show you what that looks like this is kind of intentionally too high and nose up by the end of that flight the disc is almost moving backwards toward us so let's try to keep it on anhyzer the entire way the opposite issue to stalling a disc is the thrower alert this is when your disc is too flippy or you don't give it enough height for what its design speed is i'll show you what that looks like too that's a pretty good distance roller but it's definitely not getting the maximum flight time that it could so like i said i'm going to take three different kinds of discs of varying stabilities and try to replicate an angle with each one that is giving me as much anhyzer and glide and just back to heiser at the end and then depending on how they fly i'll try to church up on the next one a little bit let's start with forces these discs are...
