Practicing Drive Accuracy

[YukiYamani]

Anyone have any tips for practicing accuracy off of drives? I seem to be having some difficulty aiming off the tee pad... mainly letting go too late. How can i get my muscle memory to get used to letting go in the right spot more often?

And yes, I know, putting in 10,000 hours of practice will get it straightened out as well as getting me over the 400' mark(hopefully).

I was just curious on any tips or tricks or methods some of you might use or did use to get your aim down?

Any info would again be greatly appreciated.

[REDFIVE]

Aim off your shoulder.

[Bryon_Harris]

Go to a soccer field and stand on the sideline looking across the middle line.

Grab or borrow as many putters as you can and then practice throwing along that straight line, with no expectation of distance, only to keep the putters as close to the line as you can.

Keep your throwing motion simple starting with your elbow towards the target and try to shift your weight into the disc sending it out along that line. If you feel it's your drives that need to improve you should practice this with your power/drive grip, even on the putters.

If you can keep you putters straight with a minimal throwing motion then add more footwork or a reachback or try some midranges.

[Bad Finger]

Also, stop taking steps in your drive if you are trying to be accurate. To build muscle memory, keep your feet still and throw. Learn that until you are deadly accurate, then learn to take one step in your drive. After you get that down, add another, then anonther.

More often than not, taking steps in your throws will greatly affect the alignment of your feet to the target, the angle relation between your hips and your shoulders, and can make you fall off balance (especially if you have a lower back that doesn't turn like mine).

[DMajor]

Find a park that has a few good trees that are about 10-20 feet apart you can practice at. Start from however far away you can comfortably hit the gap from and throw all your discs, then walk it back farther and repeat, only move back farther when you can confidently hit the gap.

[Bad Finger]

only move back farther when you can confidently hit the gap.

That's what SHE said.

Sorry, oblig.

[DexterHawk]

When throwing hyzers I aim to the left of where I want to throw because hyzer shoots always start right before they come back left... when aiming anny shots I try to pick an object (a tree, a rock... something) and try to visualize my disc passing in front of it, so I throw to start on the left side of the object and finish on the right... Another tip that helps a lot with backhand accuracy is working on keeping your throw on a straight line... this concept is easier to demonstrate than explain but basically you want to pull your throw across your chest like you are starting a lawn mower... extending your elbow in front of you and then following with your wrist. When you keep the disc close to your body and your pull through on a straight line you should get a more consistent release point (release point is a misnomer here because when driving you should never think about letting go of the disc it will rip from your hand)

If any of this doesn't make sense ask more questions and I'll try to clarify

[citizens arrest]

Well I wanted to add a few tips that I try to teach the new players to the sport, I consider myself a very accurate player and how I approach my drives is very simple. When standing on the tee close your eyes and visualize your disc in flight flying and also landing, then open your eyes and see it again, the reason I do this is because when driving unlike putting you cannot keep your eyes on the target so you need that picture in your minds eye in order to copy it. Another mistake I see beginners make is not using the tee box to their advantage, and what I mean by that is when your standing on the tee and there are trees all the way down the left side of the fairway, what I will do is move to the right side of the tee box and open the left center of the fairway up so my disc has room to finish to the right center of the target. If I find my line where I like to tee from which is the left back corner of the tee box I have taken away the whole left side of the fairway. I hope that makes sense to you and helps you with your game. #163

[chris7graham]

Anyone have any tips for practicing accuracy off of drives? I seem to be having some difficulty aiming off the tee pad... mainly letting go too late. How can i get my muscle memory to get used to letting go in the right spot more often?

And yes, I know, putting in 10,000 hours of practice will get it straightened out as well as getting me over the 400' mark(hopefully).

I was just curious on any tips or tricks or methods some of you might use or did use to get your aim down?

Any info would again be greatly appreciated.

Sounds like you are trying to hard to drive the disc far.


Try driving about 70-75% instead of a hundred this will solve the problem of letting go to late.

Just my 2 cents worth:whistler::biggrin2:

[YukiYamani]

i like all these tips, and will have to implement them the next few times i'm out.

And yes i'm sure I am throwing too hard, especially since i'm still trying to learn (only been playin for about a year) But i do come from the mind set of go big or go home lol. I'll have to hold it back a bit on my next outting.

That being said, I just got back from playing a round at my local course, Got some pretty good distance on a couple of discs, as well as figring out how to throw a couple of my odd discs better.

[TreeLove]

Anyone have any tips for practicing accuracy off of drives? I seem to be having some difficulty aiming off the tee pad... mainly letting go too late...

If you pull the disc in a straight line, and don't "roundhouse" it in a circle, then "letting go too late" (or early, for that matter) would not result in a misdirected shot, only a loss of power.

Pull the disc in a straight line, across your nipples, and picture yanking the tablecloth off a Thanksgiving table.

[Ol' Bob]

...picture yanking the tablecloth off a Thanksgiving table.

Geezo, you know how much trouble I got into for that?

[General Scales]

My only advice for getting more accurate is to power down. Learn your form and how you have to proceed with execution of that. Accuracy will come when you commit it all to muscle memory.

[olydiscgolf]

I think I am in the minority here, but when driving for accuracy, I keep my eye on the line I am aiming for.

[Bryon_Harris]

I'll go one further. Driving for accuracy is easy. When driving for accuracy one should always...........





........throw a forehand.

I'm here all week, I'll be by the bar, goodnight.

[smobro]

If you pull the disc in a straight line, and don't "roundhouse" it in a circle, then "letting go too late" (or early, for that matter) would not result in a misdirected shot, only a loss of power.

Pull the disc in a straight line, across your nipples, and picture yanking the tablecloth off a Thanksgiving table.

You said nipples:shocked: