Why Change Grip?.

Here at Overthrow disc off, we teach three different grips. So one, we've got a back loaded grip that is where our back fingers are doing the primary function of holding onto the disc. It's in the rim. And then these front fingers are for support.

This grip would be primarily used for distance. Now the second grip that we would teach would be a front loaded grip where our pressure point is actually up front now. So there's gonna be a little bit of pressure with the thumb and the index finger here, hooking in. And now we've got some rim connection here with the index finger.

And these back fingers are now playing support. This is kind of a tweener grip, I would say, where you're looking for some distance, but you're also looking for some accuracy. The last grip I would call a control grip. So this is where we are controlling the middle of the disc.

We're controlling the flight plate, so the other grips have some kind of control on the rim, and that allows you to get a big little whip around a redirect, as we would call it, getting a little more distance. This is what I would refer to as a point and shoot grip, similar to a grip that you would use when you're putting, so since there's no redirect here out of the fingers, wherever we point our hand, basically the disc goes. So those are the three types of grips that we're going to be covering. But first, we need to address the foundational idea of why do we change grip?

And that all comes down to a concept called stock speed. So what is a stock speed? Stock speed is basically your body's default speed. So if I just go up and I throw, I'm not trying to blister this thing, but I'm also not trying to just smooth one out there, a tempo that I can commit to without thinking about it.

For most people, that's gonna be somewhere between 80, 85%. And the idea here is that if you threw every shot on the course at a speed that your body was comfortable at, at its default speed, and you change something else, you change the disc, the nose angle, the grip, your body would be much more consistent over the round than if you went, lemme throw this at a hundred percent. Okay, let throw this at 40%. Lemme throw this at 60%.

Your body's kind of bouncing around, can't find its rhythm, doesn't really have a chance to groove and settle in. So let's take this to the field and just start working through this concept of stock speed.