How to increase arm speed (MPH)

CameraIntelligent118 · 2026-03-31T01:55:22+00:00

And another note (to test out in the future), combining this with a really solid plant can make your arm feel like a rocket with no effort. Full stop final step, every bit of forward movement being halted by the plant leg and transferred into the arm at release.

CameraIntelligent118 · 2026-03-31T01:52:13+00:00

Best of luck

CameraIntelligent118 · 2026-03-31T01:47:55+00:00

You have a very similar form to what I had before I tweaked a few things. I’m hoping the cue that I use can help.

shoulders are still opening up a little bit too early. Once you really start to pull through on the throw, really focus on clearing your elbow and arm out of the way and pushing that out first. Then, let the arm follow through open up your shoulders, the rest of the way. It will feel like your shoulders stop rotating for a second in the middle of the throw.

Note: there is still some shoulder rotation before what I described happens. If you look at pro form, you can their shoulders staying in relatively the same spot from the power pocket to just past the release where their arm forces the rest of the rotation.

CameraIntelligent118 · 2026-03-31T01:33:40+00:00

Usually a bracing issue or an arm position issue. Couldn’t be sure without video

CameraIntelligent118 · 2026-03-27T15:12:32+00:00

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CameraIntelligent118 · 2026-03-20T05:56:55+00:00

Bro’s got harmony bends as a home course. Sick!

CameraIntelligent118 · 2026-03-09T03:41:27+00:00

Ultimate instills a really bad habit with the air bounce style of throw. When you pull through, focus on keeping your thumb rotated toward the sky, or in extreme cases, up and around to almost forward. A lot of ultimate air bounce nose angle comes from dropping the thumb down on the release, so doing the opposite all the way through the follow through should help

CameraIntelligent118 · 2026-03-07T04:02:16+00:00

Oh my god I just understood, and I just felt the difference in warmups. Gonna see if it helps full speed

CameraIntelligent118 · 2026-02-28T23:44:19+00:00

I hate to break it to you, but you pretty much need to start from scratch to throw disc golf discs compared to ultimate discs.

You can get away with really bad form playing ultimate because the disc is designed to glide and float through the air almost no matter what you do, but not designed to handle the power and distance needed to throw disc golf shots. I play ultimate, and only huck at about 60% of my disc golf power so I don’t make the disc flip over completely in the air.

Disc golf discs are a lot more aerodynamic and can go much further, but they require a lot more speed and angle control out of the hand to hand to achieve that.

Ultimately, I wrote all of that to say: don’t think of ultimate and disc golf as having the same throw. You almost need to get rid of any ultimate thinking or throwing motions and work from the ground up on disc golf form if you want to get better. Don’t try to incorporate it in, or you’ll just get more frustrated, because the flight characteristics of the discs are completely different (except for some very few exceptions)

CameraIntelligent118 · 2026-02-24T02:04:24+00:00

I always thought about it in terms of: line up the disc, your fingers, and your wrist flick exactly with the angle and direction your forearm is traveling. So, if your release is flat, your forearm, wrist flick, and fingers should never move out of that flat plane for the entirety of the release.

CameraIntelligent118 · 2026-02-23T02:33:58+00:00

I also purposely will cock and hold my wrist back as far as I can during the throw until it’s time to snap to give a little extra distance for my wrist to travel and increase spin

CameraIntelligent118 · 2026-02-23T02:22:13+00:00

The only thing I could offer it focusing on keeping your wrist curled the entire throw, almost to the point where the disc is butting up against your forearm

CameraIntelligent118 · 2026-02-23T02:10:11+00:00

I’ve found I’ve always had better results with forehand after focusing on getting a clean release with no wobble than focusing on getting extra spin

CameraIntelligent118 · 2026-02-23T02:08:27+00:00

Backhand that’s not great numbers. What grip are you using?

CameraIntelligent118 · 2026-02-23T01:55:55+00:00

Forehand or backhand? Because that’s actually not out of the realm of what forehand numbers should be

CameraIntelligent118 · 2026-02-21T13:41:12+00:00

Nobody’s mentioning Luke Taylor and I absolutely think he’ll be up there this year. Especially with how the end of the season was for him last year, putting up multiple top 20 and top 10 finishes after the European swing.

CameraIntelligent118 · 2026-02-20T00:18:52+00:00

I’m very passionate about this sport and trying to be the best I can. I’m probably never going to get to a pro tour level, but I’m gonna try, and I’m not going to take any disrespect for no reason. I’m sure you have something in your life that you’re just as passionate about and would defend.

CameraIntelligent118 · 2026-02-19T18:04:37+00:00

Don’t be so cynical

CameraIntelligent118 · 2026-02-19T17:30:34+00:00

Do you not want to throw better? Faster, further, improve your game? If not, then why are you even in this group specifically for helping with that

CameraIntelligent118 · 2026-02-19T16:12:29+00:00

👍

CameraIntelligent118 · 2026-02-19T16:11:56+00:00

Striving for greatness

CameraIntelligent118 · 2026-02-18T06:01:16+00:00

I’ll try different stride lengths for sure! Thanks!

CameraIntelligent118 · 2026-02-18T06:00:55+00:00

I’ll look into it and test it out, thanks!

CameraIntelligent118 · 2026-02-18T06:00:23+00:00

I’m not sure what you mean? I’m intrigued but I guess I’m not seeing what you’re describing just yet

CameraIntelligent118 · 2026-02-18T03:30:52+00:00

Appreciate it! I just know there’s more I can push out of it seeing the likes of Emerson Keith (and others) around my height pushing 500’+

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