Once you are more than comfortable with the 4 steps you can go ahead and get started working on actual throwing.

You want to break the throw down in to two steps:

1-2

Start with one, making sure your disc is perfectly in line with your arm and that the disc reaches back in that channel as you step back to hit one. Pause for a quarter moment…

Add the Cha, keeping your weight back and opening the hips a little bit and hitting 2. Wait here for a full moment.

…wait…

This break here is very helpful and can be critical to some people being able to grasp distance technique. If you are too fast in moving to 3, you will experience problems.

3-4

Once you have a nice pause at 2 you can then go 3-4, which is just a simple back hand throw. I’d stay at about 40-50% power here and just make a nice solid toss.

You should feel your hips driving this throw and it should go fairly far with little effort.

Avoid the Dreaded 23

Something that gets many people in trouble is when two and three happen together. The Cha becomes a step, the hips slide forward and you wind up too far forward for your hips, torso and arms to work in concert. Essentially you wind up locking up your hips at the finish of your toss.

The finish of the throw has the hips and torso accelerating the arm to maximum velocity. The moment of release happens when your arm can’t go any further forward. If your hips and your torso is not working together you are getting a half opened christmas present and are cheating yourself of all the hard work you have done to this point.

By getting a solid separation between 2 and three it is far less likely that your hips will slide forward and lock your hips. It also provides the proper sequence for the hips to really drive the throw.

Moving On

Once you build a little muscle memory on these 4 steps you can move on to the next drill, the PVybe Two Step.

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