Learning to Feel the Brace | Basics of the Disc Golf Brace | Improving My Backhand

About 80 percent of amateurs' problems stem from lousy bracing. The other 20 percent might be fixed by itself after bracing. People saying "bracing is not important" either do it intuitively or get it wrong. Keep up the excellent work, MD!

This is great! Those incremental progressions from no feet to the front leg brace should really help people feel how important it is.

Can not wait to try this!! I think this is what will finally put me at 300ft +. Currently throw 260-280 consistently and controlled. My goal is 300 and I really think this will help. Thank you thank you!

You're a genius and thank you for the help!

Yes sir. Another great tip. I sit for putting as well to work on power in my putt. Thanks Bunky!!!

Very interesting drill. Thank you!

Here from DG Spin Dr... This is good stuff!

I think this is absolutely brilliant. Thank you!

The key takeaway for someone like me is that my timing is off with my brace. I start to throw before I fully plant. Being able to feel what we're doing is how we better make adjustments to what we're doing. I think this can be helpful in letting people better feel the brace action in some cases. What would you call this drill? The Seated Brace Drill? The Chair Brace Drill? I've not personally seen this before. Thank you in advance, Bunky!

Interesting drill. I think a lot of people have a tendency to lean into the throw towards the target, and as a result fall over their brace or spin out. It's a natural thing to do when you're trying to throw hard. Maybe sitting in a chair might help folks not sway forward and stay behind the brace more.

I like it. Also, journey before destination, radiant.

i think most dgers get an early impression that the major force being applied to the disc is pulling. from reachback, people will initiate the movement by leading with their head and torso and leaning toward the target like they're starting a lawnmower or in a tug of war. i find focusing on pushing the disc away from the body at the power pocket, helps eliminate the lean and allows the opportunity to feel the brace stop their momentum instead of rolling over the brace.

Very good, thanks.

Bumpin in with a sub from DGSpin doctor video. I like the chair thing.

There’s a couple different brace methods, but both don’t need such an exaggerated push through. In fact, it can be dangerous extending fully through the brace and having a straight to near hyper-extended knee. Feldberg is a bad example of this as he does hyper-extend his brace knee, but most pros finish with a still bent knee, some more than others. Physically the act of landing on the ground exerts a downward force with the Earth pushing back up to open the forward hip. You only need a little push through the forward heel to come through balanced on your brace leg. Josh’s brace balance drills can also be used to supplement the feeling and training of keeping your balance through the brace along with the drill in this video. The push through the brace is also something that ramps up through the movement rather than all at once. Again, the brace balance drills are very helpful here. If you push too much and too quickly, you fall backward, and if you don’t push through enough you fall forward. So it’s more a balance on the front leg while you’re moving through the movement and carrying a dynamic weight (a weight in motion weighs more than the weight itself), which is your body weight, the weight of the disc, and the end of the whip (your arm). The last two remain in motion through the hit, and weigh a lot more at the hit than at the reachback. Hence, a ramping push through the brace, and the disc release as the weight of the disc overcomes your finger strength.

Great video, I think there is also a rear foot loading/push off. I suspect the brace would be ineffective if you pulled rear foot or deweighted it. The rear leg also plays a role in keeping things moving forward. Can’t have one without the other. The dynamism is in both legs working together.

Wow, you are explaining in ways I've never seen in 7 yrs of YouTubing tutorials. OK now we need a chair tournament. All throws from Tee box and fairway from the chair. Not with putting though. You would carry your folding chair and your bag.