Practice & Drills

Filming Your Form

See what you actually do, then fix it.

Why it matters

What your throw feels like and what it looks like are different things, and the gap is usually large. Thirty seconds of video answers questions that months of guessing will not, which makes a phone the cheapest coaching available.

How to do it

Film from directly behind, down your target line. This shows rounding, the swing plane and the release angle.
Film from the side, level with your hips. This shows the brace, whether you stand up, and the weight transfer.
Film at the highest frame rate your phone offers, and use slow motion to step through the release.
Compare against a professional at the SAME moment of the throw — plant, pocket, release — rather than against a general impression.
Film again after a few weeks of work on one fault, from the same two angles, so the comparison is fair.

Common mistakes

Filming from an angle that shows nothing, usually from in front or far away.Behind and side-on, close. Those two angles answer nearly every question worth asking.

Watching the whole throw at normal speed and concluding it looks fine.Step through it frame by frame around the release. Everything interesting happens in about a fifth of a second.

Trying to fix everything the video reveals.Pick the one furthest back in the chain — usually footwork or reach back — and fix only that. The ones downstream often resolve themselves.

Key points

Film from behind (down the line) and from the side.
Compare to a pro at the same frame to spot differences.

The drill

Drill · Two angles, one fault — 5 throws filmed from behind and 5 from the side. Ten throws, two angles, then watch them once through and pick a single fault. Write it down. Work on nothing else for three sessions, then film again from the same two positions. That is a complete improvement cycle and it takes about three weeks.

Watch: FILM YOURSELF TO IMPROVE YOUR FORM // DISC GOLF 101 — Disc Golf 101