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Frisbee: Is there any other sport?

The answer to that is of course yes, there are many other sports. But that question, and that answer, are both irrelevant. Why did I put them in, you ask? Shut up.

First, let's look at the different throws.

Tips for all throws

Before we look at the different throws, let's talk about throwing itself. When you get the frisbee, plant a foot down. To be exact, plant the foot that is opposite to your throwing hand. (IE right handed plant left foot). When you are throwing, the power comes from the snap of the wrist and arm, not by the power, if you put too much power in and don't know what you are doing you'll just look like an idiot. Most of you do this usually, idiots. You also will want to step into the throw, this adds power too. If you are fat, it is your time to shine! (Gooo Ian!)

So yeah, plant a foot and step into your throw and the frisbee will go, and it won't go slow! RHYMING = LEARNING

Backhand

This is the normal throw, if you are not me.

Put your hand on the frisbee like in the picture. This is the normal backhand throw. It is more accurate, but not as powerful. Throw like this at first, even though it's not as good as the next throw. It's easier to learn though. When you do this throw, just as you release you want to flick your wrist. This is how the power gets added into it. The idea behind the flick is to put a lot of spin on the frisbee. This makes the frisbee not wobble like when you throw it normally. Practice this.

There is also another way to hold the frisbee, this is how I, normally hold it, although I sometimes use the other one for close throws. It looks like this on the left! Everything else is the same, just hold it like that. Oh yeah put your shoulder to the person you're throwing at, don't face them.

Do this. Do it right. For more help on the backhand go here!

Forehand AKA Flick

This is my normal throw. It's more accurate, and gets more controlled power into it.

Hold it like this over here. ----------------------------------------> For this throw, you wanna release it down close to the ground. You want your left foot planted, and then stretch to your right leg a lot. So your planted foot is straight, and your other foot isn't. Then you want the frisbee to roll off your middle finger, this is what puts the spin into it. Spin is what keeps the frisbee from wobbling.

Anyways, the throw is sorta like how you whip someone with a towel, and if you don't get this right fast you'll learn exactly what that feels like from me. As a teaching lesson of course! Anyways do that, good work.

Just like with the backhand, there is a forehand power grip too. It's like this! It's less accurate, but more powerful. I start every throw in the other grip, but in the motion of throwing I change to this one if I am throwing it a distance, or I want power. More about forehand/flick!

Hammer

This throw is exactly the same as the flick, except you put your arm way over, in fact your arm is parallel with your shoulders if that makes sense. Then throw the flick upside down. Good work, yo.

Air Bounce

This is pretty hard, I put a degree of this on every throw cause it's really useful, though.

When you do the backhand, you wanna push your thumb down and have it sorta flick off the disc (we pro's call frisbee's "DISCS" cause we like computers, and it is close to disk.) It's sorta like snapping your finger, except you're snapping your thumb. When you do this, aim the frisbee really low, sorta a 45 degree angle at the ground.

Final stuff

I realize at the beginning I said "First, let's look at the different throws" as if there was something after that, but in all honesty I can't teach any more than that really, the rest is kinda just you know how to play or you don't and you learn by experience. Or you could just go to this site and learn here.

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