🥏 Form Fundamentals

Happy Friday, you’re In The Circle! Tomorrow is the first Saturday in August, which means it is officially National Disc Golf Day. You know what to do. Enough chit-chat, let’s get into it.

On today’s card:

• 👌 Form Fundamentals

• 👁️ Ledgestone Open Preview and Update

• 🗳️ PDGA Election Results

Read time: 5 minutes

👌 FORM FUNDAMENTALS

For beginners or even the most seasoned players, brushing up on disc golf form fundamentals can be hugely beneficial.

Let’s go over the top three most critical aspects of disc golf form

1. Hip Rotation

• It’s all in the hips and it all starts with the hips. Generating your power from your hips rather than your upper body can be a game-changer in getting more distance from your throws.

• When you pivot on your foot, your hips should rotate creating torque. Similar to a coiled spring. More hip rotation equals more torque. More torque equals more potential energy. More potential energy equals power that can be put transferred to the disc, and therefore, more distance.

2. Timing

• You may have all other parts of your form in check, but if you lack in timing, all else crumbles. Timing is everything. Sequencing your movements in a well-timed manner produces maximum power and accuracy for your throws.

• From the reach-back to follow-through, timing is at the heart of it all. No one part of your form is independent of each other. Each impacts the rest, hips, shoulders, elbow, feet, etc all work together to transfer the energy produced from your lower body to your upper body and into the disc.

3. Practice

• Ok, so while this isn’t necessarily an aspect of your form, as they say, practice makes perfect. Well maybe not perfect but it does help! Without consistent practice, it’s easy to forget what worked and what didn’t and you’ll quickly find yourself starting from scratch the next time you go out to play.

• The key here is consistency. It can be easy to get burnt out, especially when in the midst of working on parts of your form. However, consistent and quality practice can go a long way. Over time, your throws will become more comfortable, confident, and… consistent, so persevere.

👁️ LEDGESTONE PREVIEW AND UPDATE

The Ledgestone Open is the second and final DGPT Elite+ event on the calendar in 2023. The first was the Portland Open back in June. The Elite+ events differ from Elite events in that there are higher purses and 150% pro tour points are awarded instead.

This event has been around since 2011 and was one of the founding tournaments of the Disc Golf Pro Tour. It also is home to one of the most famous and challenging courses on tour, Northwood Black.

📺 How to watch

You can watch yesterday’s first-round live coverage on the DGPT YouTube channel. The second round is currently underway in Peoria (Morton), Illinois.

Live coverage of the remaining round will only be available to watch on the Disc Golf Network. Post-production coverage will be available on the JomezPro YouTube channel.

👀 What we’re watching

Round one at Ledgestone is in the books. Check out the MPO and FPO highlights.

Here’s the round one recap:

MPO

Calvin Heimburg and Ezra Robinson finished tied at -12, shooting 1081 rated rounds. Both James Proctor and Chris Dickerson were hot on their heels at -11. The champion of the previous three years, Ricky Wysocki was three back from the lead at -9.

FPO

Holding the sole lead by one stroke, the 2022 champion Missy Gannon finished at -2 with Ella Hansen and Stephanie Vincent within one at -1.

🏆 Past Ledgestone Open Champions

• 2022 - Ricky Wysocki (-26) / Missy Gannon (-19)

• 2021 - Ricky Wysocki (-17) / Paige Pierce (-19)

• 2020 - Ricky Wysocki (-35) / Catrina Allen (-24)

• 2019 - Paul McBeth (-31) / Paige Pierce (-25)

• 2018 - Nate Sexton (-28) / Jessica Weese (-15)

🗳️ PDGA ELECTION RESULTS

The PDGA tallied up the votes and announced the newest members to the PDGA Board of Directors (results), and the PDGA Europe Board of Directors (results).

PDGA Board of Directors

• Geoff Hungerford

• Nate Heinold

PDGA Europe Board of Directors

• Christer Christiansson

• Leiv Aspén

• Riikka Salmen

Also elected were PDGA State and Provincial Coordinators. The full election results can be found here.

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