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I'll plan on being at Redstone on Mon unless I get drawn to UAH for some reason.

If you've mowed a yard, just pretend you are cranking the hell out of the lawnmower and memorize how your arm moves. Then step 12" from a wall, do that same motion, but angle your arm so that you are pulling your wrist (aka the disc holder) from nipple to nipple. Turn your arm into a whip, not a catapult. Turn you wrist into a spring, not a henge.

Throwing a disc isn't about strength. It's about fluid technique. It's about the kinetics of a smooth throw.

I'll have to look for the chart, but I've seen a plot of arm-speed to distance and while there is some correlation, there are a lot of outliers that show technique is superior to power.

It'll take a year for distance to come because during the next few months you'll be honing your technique. And like Midnight alluded to, you've got to kill the robot and bring out the ballerina.

Submitted by rapture on Sat, 06/07/2008 - 9:45am.

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