Foundation Form Critique - Zach Biscardi

hey guys hunter here with foundation disc golf and in today's video we're going to be doing a forum critique now this is something that we're starting up as an exclusive uh benefit of being patreon with us so if you want to join that the link is in the description below it's five bucks a month currently gets you access to a ton of stuff one of which is the ability to send us your form to critique um to kind of show an example of what that looks like today we're gonna be uh i'll be going over the co-owners zach's form and uh then the end of the video we'll come back and i'll give some drills for anyone that has the same issues he does with his form um as well as zach to fix those issues and get you thrown farther and more consistent let's jump over to the form video so he shot two different angles one's going to be this more straight on angle and the others behind him and so yeah i'm gonna go ahead and play it here all right okay cool so there's a few things i see here um you know up to this point everything's pretty good uh here you know he's in a decent position when his front foot plants now this is where everything kind of starts messing up a little bit we see two things that are pretty obvious one will stop right here he's not compact right so his left arm he has out wide it's a little bit more surface area um and it's kind of causing the issue that we're going to talk about here in a second um but yeah you want that arm down by your side um paul if you look at his form actually pushes it like across his body a little bit more having it out wide doesn't allow you to get into the proper motion to start the rotation which if you look at the rotation here um it all has started with his pull through right his arm kind of it all starts at the same time and his arm moves a lot faster than his lower body um what you want to see happening is in this position where his arm is starting to come through and so he's about here um let me make sure y'all can see me what i'm doing here so he's about here right when he's in this position with his arm here you want your shoulders to be here what that is is that's your hips leading you not your arm leading you because as we kind of go forward here you'll see his arm gets ahead of the rest of his body because you right here you'll never see a pro in this in this position right you'll never see a pro that throws far with their arm in front when their arm is in this position here their shoulders are about here whereas his or wide open so what's causing that is all this initial pull right here his weight transfer is good his you know pretty much everything everything lower body from his uh knees down we'll say his footwork and everything looks good his uh reach back and gets into the right position at a good time it looks like i mean it looks like he's in a good position as far as his reach back goes but one thing you'll notice here is because his body doesn't come through first he doesn't lead with his hips uh his arm has to come out in order to throw the disc so his disc from here on is no longer on the intended flight path you see what i'm saying so it's straight straight straight straight off the flight path and then depending on like technically about right here would have been released dead on the straight line so that's why you want to turn your shoulders a little bit sooner because that allows this to be coming through on a straight line and you turn your shoulders as it comes through to keep it on that straight line so yeah let's go ahead and switch over to the back view and see if there's anything else and then what we'll do is we'll get into some drills to do to kind of fix fix these issues so yeah this is a back view of his form what i'm imagining is from this view we won't really see too too much different it looked like his reach back was straight but um the back view can kind of show you if you reach backs off or anything okay so one thing i will say that's really good um his hips you know when he reaches out his hips are turned fully back uh his feet are staggered a pretty good amount that allows his hips to turn all the way back so i mean those are some good things um but yeah so here's what i'm talking about right from here what you'd want to see is his left arm that's up right now his left arm just stays up you see that so what you'd want to see is his left arm come down next to his left leg almost inner thigh middle to outer thigh somewhere in there just straight down that's going to initiate his lower hips turning which should start the pull through so here we should be looking at his left arm being down by his side and his shoulders almost being straight on at this point in the throat because what you'll see from here is right there now the disc is offline right so the disc is on a straight line there all the way till there now it starts coming offline and we see it pulls back and flips over to be back online but you know if that was a hyzer release that's going to be a solid you know a few inches offline but that's a pretty big difference depending on how far your target is um everything else i mean his bracing he looks like he stops all of his weight and has good balance you know it doesn't look like he's falling forward it looks more like once he lands he just kind of goes forward it looks like most of his momentum stops on that front foot which you want to see so i think the biggest thing is just not initiating the turn with his hips which makes him round a little bit because his elbow does start the pull through you know we see him start there and that's in a good position his arm is his right arm but if his body was in a better position this part of the throw right there wouldn't happen and wouldn't cause inconsistencies so yeah that's it for the initial form critique let's go into some drills on how to correct this and make it better all right so the number one issue that we saw in zack's form and we also see this a lot in other players forms is when he throws his arm stays up right it kind of comes through like this um what that does is it does two things one it doesn't allow your body to ever get the correct position of your shoulders being turned because this arm's in the way so even if your shoulders were turned and arms still up the disc can't get where it needs to go so that's the first thing it does the second thing is it kind of hinders your rotation um how a player should do it is your arm you know if it's up when you reach back that's really it's fine but as soon as the pull through starts your arms should be by your side and kind of pushing like towards the other side of your body to kind of start that rotation um more so than your arm starting it because what we see when um like zach's arm starts his rotation a lot of players arm starts irritation is their arm will come through and once you get to about this point without turning your shoulders fully the disc has to come offline in order to um be thrown right because you can't it's very unnatural to keep the disc online without your shoulders turning then you have to break your wrist uh the disc has to kind of come into your forearm a lot of weird stuff has to happen that shouldn't happen in a form but by turning your body at the proper time it allows the disc to stay on the line with your right arm doing the same motion so zack's right arm is correct everything about it's fine um it's just that his shoulders are not turning with it to allow the disc to stay on the line so that's where the issue kind of comes in so the first thing we're going to work on drill wise is getting the arm by the side so what you're going to do for this is just wear shorts with a pocket or pants with a pocket just put your left arm just in your pocket might be cut off not sure how close the angles cut right now but uh left arm just in your pocket right and then just throw some stand still shots um wear shorts that you don't really like because there is a possibility that when you really torque up on this that you can sometimes rip through your pocket by accident really unlikely but just kind of keep that in mind um i've heard of it happening to people so yeah put your left hand in your pocket and just throw a few uh then once that's comfortable take the left hand out of your pocket and like try to like just put your hand flat on your side about where your pocket is and just keep your hand on your side it's the exact same thing but you'll notice as soon as your hand gets out of the pocket and has that freedom when you reach back it'll want to start coming up some and so then that's more of the mental training of my hand goes here the pocket training is because it's going to feel so uncomfortable and you won't really be able to do it if you just keep your hand outside of the pocket at first so put your hand in your pocket throw you know 10 15 get a little comfortable with it then put your hand outside the pocket and just throw a ton of stand stills then you can start the x step just with your hand by by your side and see you know it'll be really uncomfortable but it should get more and more comfortable the more you do it and once you know that you have that down once you can throw a standstill and feel comfortable with your hand just by your side uh then it's kind of time for you to move on to the next drill but don't do the second drill until the first drill you're really comfortable with the second drill is um you don't aren't going to throw the disc at first you'll build up to throw the disc so you're going to have your feet ready like you're in you're going to throw a stand still you're going to reach back and you're going to start like this so you reach back and then the first thing you're going to do is you're going to push your left hand down and across your body and as that happens you're going to shift your weight to your front foot so you're going to push shift and then start turning and you're you'll realize that your pull through will naturally start right because if i keep my hands straight and i do this motion it's really hard for me to keep this arm straight so what should happen and if it doesn't what you should make happen is as you do this your elbow should break right so you do this elbow breaks and it allows you to get into the proper position to where if you were to finish this throw your disc would stay on the line you'd have the right snap your weight transfer is already good to just throw the disc so you're gonna do this just multiple times this you can do inside outside wherever the heck you want to be because you're not throwing the disc right now right this is something just to get comfortable with it um and then we'll throw the disc in a second but yeah so just reach back and then just hit like that over and over because that's how you want to start it so that's getting into your mind what it's going to feel like when you properly start your throwing motion once you know you have that down you feel pretty comfortable with it you feel like you're doing it right you know the disc should kind of be on slightly in front or slightly trailing just somewhere in this region of your left shoulder paul's a little bit behind i've seen some players riding their pec that doesn't really matter as long as it's about in this region when you're here when you're like slowly opening because the disc is going to come through as you open to allow you to get into that position to throw so once you have that down then it's time to kind of implement this into a throw so it's going to be the exact same drill we just did but you're throwing this time so you're gonna start with the stand still i can't throw it because i'm inside but you'll get what i'm saying you're gonna reach back and you're just gonna kind of pause here okay so you're pausing to reach back and then you're just gonna start it like that so you're going to pause and reach back and then start it with the drill right and what you'll notice is it's going to feel really uncomfortable and feel really weird you're going to have zero control but that's how it has to start and once you get used to it you get comfortable with it then you'll realize all the consistency the extra distance the snap all of that comes in because of this first motion but when you're used to throwing like this where the disc comes off the line as you come through the disc might still come off the line and you'll be throwing way worse than you did before because your body's just not used to it yet and that's just getting the timing down because your arm is going to do the same thing that it already does but it's just as your shoulders turn it happens versus just your arm doing it whenever it wants so yeah so you're just gonna go stand still and then once you get just reaching back and starting it with your left arm then you're gonna add the reach back in and do it in one fluid motion like you normally would so then you're going to start here reach back and as soon as you get back the second you get fully extended that's when your left arm goes because that's going to fire your rest your body to generate the snap and everything so in zack's case this weight transfer was already good so you normally players who have a trouble with this upper body part have trouble with the weight transfer zach didn't but this drill will also teach you proper weight transfer if that's something you struggle with because you'll have your weight on your left foot and as soon as you do this to get it properly done you'll have to transfer weight and so this drill also kind of builds up with that so yeah that's going to be it for this video guys thank you so much for watching hopefully you know if this is a problem you struggle with hopefully this fixes it it's not a problem you struggle with hopefully you still learn something to work on again if you're interested in having your form critiqued the patreon link 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