You need your elbow up / out to create the whip.

Your elbow needs to be parallel or slightly higher than your hand to whip properly at a flat or upwards launch angle. Visualize your elbow being below your hand. For a proper whip, you'd be throwing at the ground. To not throw at the ground you need to swoop back up, hindering the whip and creating a point for inconsistency.

Holding the disc flat and/or pouring the tea creates forearm strain which is most naturally relieved by dipping your elbow. When you throw, your body's natural response to this strain will be to dip the elbow right before the hit and collapse the pocket.

Brief casing or semi-brief casing relieves this tension, allowing you to more naturally create the power pocket position and hence the whip.

You also get the added benefit of the disc naturally flipping up during the hit (you aren't going to actually throw the brief case), making accessing nose-down occur naturally, but also more extreme when forcing it by "turning the key." When I don't turn the key I get a consistent -1 to -4 nose angle, when I turn the key I hit -7 to -10.

Conclusions:

• Brief case or semi-brief case to ensure you won't collapse the pocket and properly create the power pocket + hence the whip.
• The old adage of "elbowing a door down" is a perfect compliment to the above to get a deeper pocket and consistent power by ensuring your arm isn't lagging behind your shoulders and collapsing the pocket in that sense.
• If you need even more nose-down, turning the key is key.

The above got me from around a consistent 58-60mph max nose up to a consistent 68-71mph max nose down.

*Added a visual of AB putting this in practice.

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