10/29/2024
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Research Study on Effects of Thumb Position!
The study investigated the effects of thumb position on applied torque, launch speed, and spin rate in backhand throws of a mid-range disc, and the TLDR summary is something like:
(1) Throws with higher spin rates tended to have higher throw speeds.
(2) A thumb position about 3 cm (or just over an inch) from the edge of the rim showed the most favorable combination of average launch speed and spin rate.
Here’s a link to the original study:
https://pubs.aip.org/aip/adv/article/14/10/105125/3317564/The-effects-of-thumb-position-on-backhand-disc
Text from Reddit r/discgolf by u/zrlindsey