Throwing Strategy in Disc Golf

Video Transcript

" Thanks for joining me on Expert Village. Hello! My name is Patrick Kitten with Wind Riders Disc Golf Club in Mackenzie Park in Lubbock, Texas. We're going to talk a little bit about the type of throw. Actually, it's the angle of the throw. You can orient the disc this way for a hyzer shot, or you can angle it this way for an anhyzer shot. Most shots you should select a disc to do the work, so you want to throw level most of the time. But in certain situations, when there's a tree in the distance and you want to go around that tree from right to left, throw a hyzer shot. Something like this. Curves right to left very quickly. If you throw an anhyzer shot, it goes from left to right a little bit. And also this is pretty much the shot that you would throw to maximize your distance to get the S shot. Basically, goes up, rides the wind, comes around, decreases velocity, drops. That's the preferable S that disc golfers are after. We'll try to throw one of those right here. I'm going to anhyzer this shot. And is S'd out. Those are the 2 basic types of shots to throw. The hyzer shot turns right to left; anhyzer from left to right. "