Practice & Drills

Tracking Your Practice

Measure reps and makes so you improve on purpose.

Why it matters

Without numbers, practice is a feeling — and the feeling is usually that you are improving when you are not, or that you are stuck when you are not. Tracking also does the less obvious job of showing you how much you are throwing, which is what stands between a keen player and an injured one.

How to do it

1. Track putting by distance: makes out of ten at 15, 20, 25 and 30 feet. Four numbers, once a week.
2. Track approaches by result: how many from 100 feet finish inside 15 feet.
3. Count full-power throws per session. Most overuse injuries come from volume, not from one bad throw.
4. Review monthly rather than per session. Session to session is noise; a month is a trend.
5. Let the numbers pick the next thing to practise, rather than your preference.

Common mistakes

Key points

• Track putting makes by distance to find weak spots.
• Manage throwing volume to avoid overuse injury.

The drill

Drill · Four numbers a week — 10 putts each at 15, 20, 25 and 30 ft, weekly. Forty putts, four numbers, written down, once a week. After a month you will know precisely which distance is your weakest — and that is where the next month of practice should go. It takes fifteen minutes and it is the most useful record most players never keep.

Watch: Tracking Throwing Volume- Disc Golf Field Work Practice — Disc Golf Strong

Further reading

• Getting Better Through Practicing — Infinite Discs
• Paige Pierce Disc Golf Clinic Clips | Plateaus — Paige Pierce

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