Practice & Drills

Field Work Fundamentals

Open-field reps that transfer to the course.

Why it matters

Field work is the only place you can throw a disc fifty times and watch what it does. On a course you get one throw and a result confounded by trees, slopes and nerves. In a field the feedback is clean, which is the entire reason it is worth doing.

How to do it

Take the whole bag and a lot of discs so you are not walking after every throw.
Pick ONE form cue per session and hold it for the whole hour. Changing cues mid-session means learning nothing.
Throw each disc enough times to see a pattern — ten or more. One throw is an anecdote.
Walk out and look at the group, not the best throw. The spread is what you take to a course.
Throw at a target, not into space. Aimless distance throwing builds a motion with no accuracy attached.

Common mistakes

Throwing for maximum distance the whole session.Max effort hides form faults and builds fatigue. Work at 80% where you can actually feel what you are doing.

Changing the cue every few throws when it does not immediately work.Give one change a whole session. Most form changes feel worse before they feel better.

Judging by the single best throw.Your best throw is not your game. Pace the middle of the group — that is the number that shows up on a scorecard.

Key points

Throw every disc in your bag to learn its flight.
Focus on one form cue per session.

The drill

Drill · One cue, one hour — 60 throws, one form cue, one target. Sixty throws at one target with one cue held the whole way through, at about eighty percent effort. Pace out the middle of your group at the start and the end. That comparison is the only honest measure of whether an hour of field work did anything.

Watch: Types of Field Work to Improve your Disc Golf — Overthrow Disc Golf