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How To Increase Touch in Disc Golf | Tutorial with Brodie Smith and Ezra Aderhold
Learn how to throw an upshot like a pro from professional disc golfers Brodie Smith and Ezra Aderhold in this tutorial on Foundation Nation. With guidance from two of the sport's top players, discover the key differences between throwing an upshot versus your normal forehand or backhand. Understand why the upshot is a crucial shot to master, especially for upcoming events like Masters Cup. Brodie shares his expertise on how to generate power and speed in an upshot, while also highlighting common mistakes people make when trying to throw one. Shot by Judah, this video features a unique blend of instruction, advice, and expert insights from two highly experienced disc golfers.
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what's happening foundation nation today we're going to learn how to throw an upshot okay so we're out here santa cruz beautiful beautiful sights it's cool it's so cold it's windy i got ezra here with me today judah on the camera we're gonna be trying to do this more so let us know in the comments down below or by liking this video if you want to see more videos on foundation uh with me and ezra kind of doing either some tutorials maybe some fun challenges while we're out on the road we're gonna try to sprinkle this in for you guys but today we're gonna do up shots why well because suck adam well i was gonna say because you're about to play masters cup and there's gonna be a lot of kind of hundred to two hundred foot up shots you're saying every t shot is actually just an i mean there's like four five there's a couple of them that are very up shoddy so the first thing i want to because i feel like this is probably one thing that has translated the most for me from ultimate to disc golf is the notion that the throw the upshot like actual throw is very different than your normal forehand or your normal backhand the best way of kind of getting a grasp on what i mean is if i was going to give you a football a baseball and tell you throw it as far as you can you would get your whole body into it and you'd get a huge wind up and you'd like launch it right now if i were to if i was to tell you okay i i want you to throw this 20 feet or 30 feet and i was just you know 30 feet away from you and i was like all right throw it here you wouldn't do that most people wouldn't go big full body and then like slow throw they would probably just go like this little wrist flip right and that is the same thing a lot of people i see struggle with up shots especially on the forehand side they try to like decelerate they try to do like their normal forehand motion and then like throw soft by a lot of people you mean me well no shots i can take...
