Tips for throwing forehands with a wet disc

[doub...@gmail.com]

What are some tips you may have for throwing a wet disc in the rain? I
find it hard to get a solid forehand release and the disc slips during
the throw.

xx

[rollinnufffatter]

grip it tighter...or use a three finger release.

[swil...@gmail.com]

wipe it off with your shirt

[Mortakai]

gloves may help (e.g., full-finger bicycle type, or similar)

[Patrick Eberle]

> gloves may help

I think everyone will agree....don't wear gloves.

Patrick

[Mortakai]

They work very well for me... so at most it'll be "everyone minus one".

I strongly suggest anyone who hasn't tried it doesn't discount it based
solely on what someone else says. Don't discount it until you've tried
a good pair of gloves and find that they don't work for you.

[p...@ak.net]

I play where it rains LOTS (~100 inches per year), so I play about 50%
of the time in the rain. My advice is to just ignore the rain as best
you can and try to maintain good throwing accuracy and smooth releases.
If you play with a wet disc long enough, you will learn to grip it
tighter and this will improve your throwing over all. If you don't get
rain that often, take every chance you can to throw a wet disc. Just
get used to it and it becomes a non-issue. I like rain because it
makes the fields slicker and easier on the body when laying out. This
is similar to picking the windiest spot in your area to have practices.
If you get good in bad conditions, you rock when it's nice out!

~PvT

[st...@investmenthorizons.com]

Try a product called Dry Hands. This stuff is amazing. It's a liquid
you rub into your hands.

I started using it because I sweat a lot (a whole frickin' lot more
than you can imagine...dunno why...but anyone from Pittsburgh will
vouch for it) and, after a few points of running hard on hot days, I
would lose my flick entirely. I tried rosin, tried gloves, tried
wristbands...nothing really worked until I found Dry Hands. It works
amazingly well.

Works for rain, as well as sweat. I swear, you could put this stuff on
your hands, dip your hand in water, grab a soaking wet disc, and throw
it as though both your hand and the disc were dry as a desert.

I wouldn't have believed it, but a teammate had some, so I figured I
might as well try it. I still can't get over how well it works (after
so many years of just dealing with not having much of a flick on hot
days, it was like being freed after many years in prison :-). You can
get a bottle for like $5, so you don't have much to lose if you wanna
try it yourself.

The website is http://www.dryhands.com/

I'm no chemist, but all I can figure is that it must be about the most
hydrophobic thing ever invented by humankind--it feels like it just
instantly displaces all the water/sweat on your hand...as well as the
water on the disc anywhere you touch it. The best part is, other than
your hands feeling a *little* dry, you can't even tell you have put it
on.

(At first, I figured that, for it to work so well, it must be made from
some really nasty chemicals, but the teammate I got it from originally
is a chemist, and I had another ultimate-playing chemist friend look at
the ingredients list...they both say everything in it is pretty much
inert and shouldn't cause any harm to humans.)

Stan

[IHeartTexas]

If you do plan on wearing gloves, I hope you'll enjoy explaining to
your teammates why your bid was denied to Fools Fest XXV.

[werd...@gmail.com]

I wear a loincloth-like bar towel when I play, and tuck it into my
shorts in the front like a quarterback. It's useful since I'm a
handler, not sure how much use a downfield player could get out of it.
I wipe the disc off mostly when its out of play... Before pulls, after
turns, during timeouts, etc... Sometimes if it's really bad, I'll give
it a wipe during a stall though...

Otherwise, just make sure to get both (did someone say 3?) fingers
tight along the rim, grip it hard, keep your relase controlled (not too
snappy)...and throw underneath.

Happy hucking.

[Mike Gerics]

> gloves may help....

--....may help you look like a doofus.

[Mike Gerics]

> What are some tips you may have for throwing a wet disc in the rain? I
> find it hard to get a solid forehand release and the disc slips during
> the throw.

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--you use the ole one finger under the rim and the other pointed out towards
the middle of the underside of the disc grip, huh?
put both your middle and pointer finger up there tight under the rip.
grab the disc tighter....
pinch it between your 1)index/middle finger and 2)ring/pinkie finger...like
those two sets of fingers are chop sticks.
bend the top of the disc with your thumb like you are trying to wrap the
plastic around and over your index finger....

grab the disc tighter, snap your wrist harder.
the disc is 175 grams.....control it...don't let it control you.

[ray]

Flat flip flies straight, tilted flip curves.
Experiment.

That's the only tip I can remember but it should work.

[Mortakai]

Wearing gloves or not doesn't change that for me... in fact, they
nicely distract from the rest of my doofusness. It's not a fashion
show, that's for sure.