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My Top Tips for Improving Your Disc Golf Throw:

1 – Video yourself so you can see what you are doing and try to match it with tutorials you can find online (YouTube as volumes of tutorials on proper technique), or compare it with a pro’s from that has similar body type to yours. This really is the best way to improve because what you feel like you are doing usually looks COMPLETELY DIFFERENT on film. Filming and reviewing your form over and over dozens or hundreds of times is by far the best way to learn proper disc golf form.

2 – Before you develop bad habits and muscle memory that is hard to change, try to learn proper disc golf form early on into your playing. It is easier to build proper form from scratch as opposed to trying to go from bad habits to good ones. I recommend learning from Overthrow Disc Golf’s Youtube Channel (because they have lessons and drills in sequential order for both backhand and forehand) combined with Janni at DG Spin Doctor Youtube Channel who I personally have found to be extremely helpful and great at simplifying complex ideas of the disc golf throw so that you can more easily understand them.

3 – Know what your goal is. If you are just in it to have fun then don’t worry about big distance.  Instead worry about shot selection, putting, and strategy as this will help you save a lot of strokes and have fun more quickly.  Also, develop both a decent forehand and backhand as this will add fun and help you improve your scores much more quickly than adding big distance.  If you are serious and want to be competitive then work on form early on before you develop bad habits and see tip #1 (film yourself over and over).

4 – Just put in the work. I have been working on my backhand form for over 4 years, and I am still not there. That is one reason disc golf is so much fun:  it is very hard to perfect which allows for plenty of room to growth.

 

The Top 3 Best Free Disc Golf Form and Throwing Youtube Channels:

1 – Overthrow Disc Golf Youtube Channel – Josh and Mikey produce great free disc golf education on youtube and have a patreon you can subscribe to in order to get your personal form reviewed and critiqued by Josh himself. Mikey makes both the educational, review, and vlog videos very entertaining so the combination of these two and their team are hard to beat.

2 – DG Spin Doctor Youtube Channel – Janni AKA coach DG Spin Doctor has over 23 years of experience in Disc Golf. He teaches you simple but effective ways to throw frisbees far, hard and accurately. He is one of my favorite disc golf coaches online, if not my favorite. He is an excellent teacher that makes disc golf concepts very simple. That is hard to do, and he does it very well.

3 – Scott Stokely – long-time (and current) pro that probably has taught more people disc golf than anyone else. Great for beginners because he covers so many disc golf topics. Start with his backhand playlist.

BONUS: Dynamic Discs has a great playlist helping you understand the physics of how discs fly, and I found it extremely helpful when I got started.

 

More Great Free Disc Golf Education Online:

Slingshot disc golf is great for helping you with your backhand form and getting it in your head that you have to be loose as a goose and “slingshot” your arm not actively tighten it. Check out Slingshot disc golf Youtube channel, but be aware that everyone’s body is different and although his loose slingshot approach to the backhand may be perfect for you it does not suit everyone. Some people get more power and explosiveness from different parts of their body. Slingshot’s method is primarily for those with lots of core power not so much for those with faster, longer, and more powerful arms, chest, and shoulders. Regardless your body type Slingshot has some great trainings you may benefit from.

Dave Feldberg’s Biomechanics of Backhand Clinic is probably the single-best video to help you with your disc golf backhand.

Along similar lines to Dave Feldberg’s clinic linked above, a super helpful disc golf clinic to learn about proper putting and disc golf mindset is to learn from one of the greatest, if not the greatest, disc golfers of all time Ken Climo.

Other great teachers include Will Schuester, Paul Ulibari, Ricky Wysocki, Paige Pierce, and really any pros that put on disc golf clinics.

Other disc golf youtube channels I would recommend: