Disc Golf Advice from Mind Body Disc blogger Tim

Mind Body Disc blog had a recent post entitled 10 Pieces of Disc Golf Advice I Wish I Had Listened To. A lot of good advice in his ten items.

My favorites include;

7. Actually spend time practicing in the first place. As fun as going out and playing rounds is, nothing will help you improve as much as field work.

6. Throw discs that match your arm speed. Most of us have no business with high speed drivers in our bags. Going all the way down to speed 8 and 9 drivers would do wonders for most people’s games.

4. Learn to throw from a stand still. Not just approach shots, full on drives. There’s no reason to add more moving parts if you can’t get the most important part down cold first. Most players destroy anything good about their form with their run up.

3. Start loose and slow, then accelerate and grip down late in the throw. Do it smoothly. Throwing “hard” is not the answer and will only frustrate you.

2. Learn to throw a putter for distance. In fact, dedicate a month or more to playing only with putters. Yeah, that’s right, a month or more. Don’t believe me? Well, if you won’t take that advice from me, how about taking it from the current distance world record holder (Simon Lizotte)?

1. The most important thing you can do on every shot, with every disc, in every situation is to follow through. I can look back on 75%+ of my bad shots and the primary cause was lack of follow through. If you do nothing else on this list, do this religiously.

The next couple of posts will cover some of these in more depth. For now, check out the video below of a workshop on throwing by Simon Lizotte on throwing putters for distance. This covers Number 2 Learn to throw a putter for distance.