I decided to give lefty a try after seeing someone at a league day pull it out. It took about a few weeks of field work in the park before I started playing it in casual rounds, and about 2 months before I was confident using it competitively. My forehand is decent, and I still use it in certain situations, but it is great having the left hand option too. It feels like a cheat code on some holes. Plus it makes the game more fun learning something new. Also I sucked hard when I first tried it, so don't let that put you off. Stick with it and it will click eventually.
I broke my right wrist a couple of months ago, and was sidelined for a while. Becoming a little stir crazy, I decided to try lefty (my non-dominant hand). At first I was quite terrible, but, as you state, the learning curve is much shorter than when I first took up disc golf less than 2 years ago. I now have, after almost a month, perhaps 60 to 70% of the distance, and perhaps 50% of the accuracy I had rhbh. Progress, certainly! And it gets me out. I’ve got to think that incorporating the left hand will become a bigger part of my game in the future, as an alternative to my rather weak right handed forehand, which is really just a short flick in my case. Options! Thanks for your video. I enjoyed it.
My forehand (as a right hander) is plenty good compared to my backhand. But I've tried learning myself a left hand forehand just because of scramble efficiency. A forehand is way easier to reach out and snap away compared to doing some patent pending backhand shot. 🤷♂
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I decided to give lefty a try after seeing someone at a league day pull it out. It took about a few weeks of field work in the park before I started playing it in casual rounds, and about 2 months before I was confident using it competitively. My forehand is decent, and I still use it in certain situations, but it is great having the left hand option too. It feels like a cheat code on some holes. Plus it makes the game more fun learning something new.
Also I sucked hard when I first tried it, so don't let that put you off. Stick with it and it will click eventually.
That is a quick turnaround! How often were you practicing?
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I broke my right wrist a couple of months ago, and was sidelined for a while. Becoming a little stir crazy, I decided to try lefty (my non-dominant hand). At first I was quite terrible, but, as you state, the learning curve is much shorter than when I first took up disc golf less than 2 years ago.
I now have, after almost a month, perhaps 60 to 70% of the distance, and perhaps 50% of the accuracy I had rhbh. Progress, certainly! And it gets me out.
I’ve got to think that incorporating the left hand will become a bigger part of my game in the future, as an alternative to my rather weak right handed forehand, which is really just a short flick in my case.
Options!
Thanks for your video. I enjoyed it.
Sounds like soon you’re gonna be a secret weapon on the course, there can’t be many people that have good backhands on both sides.
got frisbee elbow so we took to throwing some lefty shots . we found out it was fun and useful
Nice!
#1 reason to throw lefty is if you are left handed.
My forehand (as a right hander) is plenty good compared to my backhand. But I've tried learning myself a left hand forehand just because of scramble efficiency. A forehand is way easier to reach out and snap away compared to doing some patent pending backhand shot. 🤷♂
Yep, people struggle a lot with patent pending