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Advanced Disc Golf Backhand Footwork Tutorial | Beginner's Guide to Disc Golf
Advanced Disc Golf Backhand Footwork Tutorial | Beginner's Guide to Disc Golf Mastering the x-step in disc golf requires a solid foundation in footwork and timing. To get started, it's essential to have a well-formed stand still position, with feet positioned correctly and reach back timing established. The key to transitioning into the x-step is maintaining precise timing, as rushing into the next step can result in an uncoordinated upper and lower body. This video focuses on the lower half of the disc golf stance, covering footwork and timing techniques crucial for a smooth x-step execution. Viewers will learn from the Dan Berto drill, a training method that teaches form and technique, particularly focusing on the lower half of the stance. With this tutorial, beginners can improve their overall game by mastering the x-step, a fundamental component of disc golf backhand play.
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what is good foundation nation and welcome to the beginner's guide to disc golf today's episode we're gonna be breaking down the x step let's get into it all right so before we get into this video at all if you're a beginner and you're watching this obviously to learn the x step make sure that you first have watched our just backhand form breakdown because this this video is pretty much only going to be on the lower half of the body there's going to be on your footwork and a little bit of timing with your reach back but the whole pull through all of that stuff i'm not going to cover here because i already covered it so the link should be in a card up here or if you're on mobile or whatever it'll be in the description down below make sure you watch that first because that's gonna be crucial um to have that down before you ever even start this video but to get things started you know you should at this point have your stand still formed down so you should have your footwork down know where your feet should be your reach back your pull through timing all of that stuff the biggest thing with transitioning into the x step is being able to keep that timing because what a lot of people will do is they'll just immediately like oh i got my stand still formed down and then just run into what they think is a next step camera guy might have missed it they'll run into what things they think is an x step and their upper body and lower body won't be synced so it's important to actually build your x-step so a lot of the footwork that i'm about to show you is actually from what's called the dan beto drill if you haven't watched that before his videos on working from the hit backwards it kind of teaches you your whole form all together i'm not going to be teaching the upper half bot upper half portion of that but the lower half i think is very important so what you're going to want to do to start things off is have both your feet close together standing here like this and then have your elbow pointed towards your target um and ready to go and...
