Practice & Drills

Form Drills

Retrain muscle memory with targeted drills.

Why it matters

Changing a motion you have thrown thousands of times takes deliberate, slow repetition — at full speed your body simply does what it already knows. Drills exist to put the new position into the motion at a speed where you can actually feel it.

How to do it

Work slowly. Half speed or less is where a new position can be felt and therefore learned.
Use a mirror or a window to check positions you cannot feel, particularly the reach back and the power pocket.
Try a towel drill: throw a towel with your normal motion. It only cracks when the sequence and the snap are right, so it gives instant feedback with no disc flight to distract you.
Do one-step and standstill throws to isolate the upper body from the footwork.
Finish each drill session with a few full-speed throws to see whether any of it survived.

Common mistakes

Doing drills at full speed, where the old motion simply takes over.Slow down until you can feel each position. Speed is the last thing added, not the first.

Doing a drill without knowing which fault it addresses.Name the fault first. A drill chosen at random is exercise, not practice.

Expecting a drill to transfer immediately.A motion changed in drills takes weeks to appear under pressure. Keep doing it after it starts working.

Key points

Slow, deliberate reps build the correct motion.
Use a mirror or a wall drill to feel the positions.

The drill

Drill · Slow reps then real ones — 30 slow reps, then 10 full-speed throws. Thirty deliberate half-speed repetitions of one position, then ten throws at full effort. Watch whether the position survives the speed. When it does not — and it will not, at first — that tells you the drill is not finished rather than that it failed.

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