Stokely is one of those heroes of the old game who has dedicated himself to teaching. I am super grateful for it.

I like your way of instruction. No "um"s, no misspoken words, ect. The way you take your time speaking and get across the message you want is excellent.

4:02 When I throw a 600 foot throw it only goes 250 feet.

Awesome video!

As soon as you said correlation does not equal causation, I knew I was gonna learn from this video.

Simple NOT easy! The game explained in 3 words! Thank you Scott!!!!

As a newer golfer in my mid 50s, and after hurting my arm 3 times already, this whip crack analogy has been a huge AHA! moment for me. Thank you, Scott! Be well.

I want to spray blood when I throw!

Mcbeth has the best snap it's a joy to witness in person. His form looks like he's casually tossing and the disc ROCKETS out of his hand at 65-70 mph. you did an excellent job describing it!!

I remember meeting Scott for the first time possibly in '97 or '98 at the triple crown series in Florida that kicked off in Gainesville. A couple of buddies and I drove down from Toronto and it was the first time I played 'pro' We met Scott in our practice round and he was a super chilled guy who took the time to chat. That tournament was cut short a day because of a hurricane and then we played in Orlando at Barnett in knee high water on some holes. The next time I saw him was at the '99 worlds in Rochester (where Russell ended Climo's run of 9 straight titles) I was sitting on the first tee right behind Scott and I'll always remember the sound and the impact on the ground when he bombed his magnet 325 ft on a slightly uphill hole. It may not sound like a big throw now but it was then. Watching him play in Michigan where he would throw unorthodox shots was a treat as well (throwing a downhill roller in the woods when he could have probably just parked it with a putter) He definitely was a unique player who seemed to like to play to the crowd a bit. Sorry about the long post but it brought back a lot of memories of what was a very cool time for me in disc golf and that Florida trip was epic.

As a new player trying to improve these videos have been priceless. Thank you, Scott.

I say a prayer before each game to generate 'Holy Snap!'

Scott Stokely, you are a Master Teacher. I say that with utmost respect. I am an educator, and have been for 26 years. I’ve been a mentor for new teachers. I’ve served on state curriculum and standard boards. I have a doctorate in my discipline. I know a GREAT teacher when I see one. I have had “teachers” who could do it, and do it incredibly well, but could not teach it incredibly well. You teach in accordance with my philosophy in that at least 9 out of 10 people can understand your concepts. I’ve been playing since ‘76 and have not had the advantage of the Internet and KZfaq like the new generation of players today. You are a godsend to my game. I’ve watched dozens of others-who produce good lessons-here are KZfaq explaining various aspects of technique. I want to tell everyone to just subscribe and watch Scott Stokely, you need no other tutorial lessons. Bravo, Scott!

Scott Stokely is clearly one of the best disc golf instructors out there. I have felt the elusive snap only a few times and have always been eager to figure it out. Now I think a have a major clue. Thank you.

I watched this and went right out to the field and I swear I was throwing some of the better shots I ever have. Not only did I feel like I was getting the snap but I was getting the nose down on drives and I was throwing putters like I never have-- dead straight with no wobble. Thanks a lot Scott, you are a gift to the game.

I watched this last night, hit the course today and this added 100ft to my drive instantaneously, serious breakthrough moment.

I cant say enough about Scott's teaching style. Straight forward, to the point, no BS. I love it!! Thanks so much.

'Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated, it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening, and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented' *Arnold Palmer*

Stoke, you are a freaking legend bro. Would love to see some of the old school90s guys go at it with the young stars of today, in a skins game.

Dewd, I’ve watched a buncha Scott’s stuff. I just want I see more sidearm bombs. Like 90% mechanic talk, 10% observation doesn’t work for me. Your channel is literally gold... but literally everybody just wants to watch you launch discs while you’re talking

Unreal how clearly you explain many different ways of approaching disc golf. Quality work, I'll be watchin many more.

Hands down the best teacher. Solely by how simple you break things down. Cut and dry straight to the point. Just overall simply explained. Love the way you define the fine line between what the mechanics actually are and what feels natural. You break the two down into separate parts and you show how the two should work together once put together.

I actually did it once for the first time last week. It wasn't terribly accurate, but God if flew beautifully and felt good. One of those shots that keeps you coming back for more.

Been watching my dad play since I was a lad, I’m 19 and have officially been playing on my own for two weeks. No one had explained this phenomenon better than you, thanks Scott!

This may be the best video I've seen on how to fix my crappy form. Now that I think about it, I'm 99.999% sure I've been starting to rotate before my foot hits the ground and that's why after 22+ years of disc golfing I can still only throw about 325 on my best throw.

Started playing disc golf in 1985 but after 20 years I took a 14 year break due to frequent travel for work. After retiring almost 2 years ago I dusted off the discs and started again and noticed I lost a lot of drive distance (I am now 67 years old). I have tried many things including a massive study and experimentation of discs speeds/weights to find the perfect sweet spot disc plus basic fixes always keeping snap in mind but this one video may have filled in the missing info I needed...planting the foot before anything else moves forward. Most of my fixes only resulted in incremental improvement. To date I was concentrating on creating spin through the wrist on release, obviously not the best way so I will try out your advice right away.

Great stuff. Scott has the rare gift to teach things the way it immediately makes sense. I will never get enough of his videos and I have been reading and watching his published stuff now for 15 years.

The whip analogy really helped me a ton with my drives. Thanks!

Love the style of being less scripted. It feels more natural, and genuine vs a lot of these highly edited youtube videos. TY!

Thanks! This video really helped me realize one mistake I was making. Until this day I was having trouble reaching the basket with my drive on 200 feet holes, especially uphill holes. Sometimes I could throw in the middle of the fairway, but only 100-140 feet from the tee. If I tried to use more power I would hit the early trees. However, I watched this video yesterday and today I got the chance to try it out. I tried to focus on moving my hip before anything else (I still throw stand still shots, I decided it’s better for me as a beginner not to move my feet yet), and that was a major improvement. Now I’m throwing straight and I actually need to do a shorter reachback or use some other technique not to overthrow past the basket.

Disc golf genius! Never heard of the cracking whip from lower body to upper. Thanks man

just came back to say this really improved my backhand. im throwing 50 ft further on average now and got my first backhand ace literally the day after watching this video. Thanks Scott!

This is gold, thank you Scott. Love watching you on old tour videos

Went down the youtube rabbit hole at 1 : 30 A.M for disc golf tips. This man is nothing but a wizard!!!! A wizard who for the first half of the video seemingly spoke in riddles but yet.....as the video progressed.....I got it,or at least I think I do. I will find out tomorrow morning when I play a quick 9 before work. If my drive does not improve.....I shall return and continue watching this video over and over until its pounded in my head. The single best dg tip video iv watched to date. I only THOUGHT id watched them all and came across this gem. You sir are a true master.......its like when Booger became humbled by Snotty the loogie master in Revenge of the Nerds II. I am your pupil....willing to learn and eager to be humbled. I look forward to watching more of your videos. Until next time.....thank you sir. Sincerely, One of your many undeserving pupils who's hopelessly addicted to the craft we all have come to love,known as Disc Golf. Peace be with you sir and may good fortune shine its light upon you every day.

You have a way of explaining things that make sense and instill confidence. Thanks Scott!

Wow...that makes so much sense! Thanks for the simple but direct instruction!

Appreciate the Blue Power discs we bought from you. Thank you Scott

As a recreational player still learning how to throw, and hasn't yet mastered the cross-step, I really appreciate this lesson, and I think it's the clearest and best explained video I've seen on this topic to date. Thank you!

Thank you Scott Stokely! all your videos are amazing and super helpful.

Great video man. Letting people know they need to have their plant foot down before even pulling anything else is some of the best advice I tell anybody starting out. Do not pull with your upper body until you feel “grounded”

Man, thank you for this video! I've been trying to figure out why sometimes I get the ripping sensation off my fingertips and sometimes I don't. I thought maybe it was because I wasn't pulling fast enough and when I try to pull faster with my arm and shoulder I end up releasing late. But this explains so much. Great stuff!

Easy to follow, great pace and teaching personality. Thank you. Same Scott from the 1993 championship tournament on YT, too, right? Cool.

Every vid I watch from you improves my game. You have a way of explaining the mechanics of discgolf is such a way that just clicks for me. Thanks so much for your work in making these!

Great teaching Scott. I really appreciate your simplicity in explaining mechanics.

I needed to see this. Very interesting. I believe it’s what I’ve been missing. What a great vid. Thanks

I can’t wait to try this out tomorrow! Scott, you’re the man OG 💯

Best example I've seen so far. Seriously helped my game

I can feel the truth in this! Can't wait to hit the course to try it! I somehow just know it will be amazing! :) Thanks!!!

Wow another useful and tremendous video. You’ve quickly become one of my favorite DG teachers. I didn’t try forehand until watching your old school forehand clinic.

Send it Scott! You and disc golf will blow up on KZfaq

You’re a great instructor Scott. That video you did with blue hair years ago is the reason I ever dared to throw a forehand in rounds because you broke it down in a stepwise manner that really works.

Your videos are amazing. The way you teach things is super easy for me to understand and apply to myself. Thank you for doing what you do :) I found you from your collaboration with the Disc Golf Kid, by the way.

Just found this video. The way you explained that and broke down the analogy of the whip & then explained how it works with us as the whip was great. Need to watch more of your videos now.

Ice Dad here. This is another great video!! You are right, is is simple, but it is hard. I have been working on planting my foot for the last month and my backhand has gone from just over 200ft to over 300. Keep up the great work 👍👊

You are so right, Scott. The first time I felt the snap off my finger tips, the whole game became so much more interesting to me. I was hooked from that point!

I have been casually/passively playing disc for a few years. I feel I have watched numerous videos about generating snap. This by far is the best one. Straight to the point and simple enough for anyone to understand.

Wow! After watching dozens of videos on how to throw far, I finally found the one that makes it simple. Thanks Scott!

I needed this, thank you. I had a bad Sunday last week were I was "grip locking" some very dramatically. That is what I was looking to solve when I watched this video. I played yesterday with two things in mind, a full reach back and making no movement forward until my foot hit the ground. I drove more consistently. Keeping this in mind from here on out.

This makes so much sense! Thank you for your wisdom, sir!

Thank you so much your instruction videos are simply brilliant.

Just found these videos and this is explained in a way I think I may finally be able to work on learning it. I have never snapped a disc.

Holy crap. This makes so much sense. Thank you, Scott!

@12:10 man that analogy is such an "Ah Ha!" moment for me. I've always wondered why sometimes I get that snap and other times I feel like the disc just floundered out of my hands. Looks like I have some field work to start working on that order of planting my foot and then beginning to rotate the rest of my body.

Your best tip video to date! And that's saying alot..thanks man keep em coming!

Thanks so much for the video! Made me realize that i have been starting to open my hips before my foot is planted. Cant wait to work on this one.

Thanks for this info! i've been struggling with having consistent snaps and i know its due to poor planting and pulling through technique!

Simplest explanation about generating power I have seen. Thank you.

As a newbie, your videos have made huge improvements to my (still very novice) playing.

Can’t wait to use this on the course!!

This is a great channel, thanks Scott

Some people (Big Jerm) loves to credit Drew Gibsons loud snapping sound to his extreme power, but its literally just him gripping the disc in a modified powerfan grip which he himself says he uses 98% of the time and after it leaves his hand his fingers collapse into his palm. look at Simon Lizotte whom arguably throws longer and faster, no snapping sound. He uses a raw power grip around the inside of the rim that acts like an extra hinge or axis so when the disc unravels from the sling it also does a small rotation around his fingers, kind of like a hula hoop that goes of course, adding even more spin and speed. thats one reason simons 600+ throws looks so effortless, his "snap" is out of this world

Really appreciate your level of explanation.

Hi Scott, I think I experienced this today for the first time. I'm very new to DG, been throwing for 2 weeks with my Bro-In-Law (im a lefty throwing mainly forehand) and we give feedback on each other's throwing. He mentioned i wasn't looking like I got enough spin on the disc, so the next throw i "ripped it" and boy did it come out so sweet, it flew much further just, just flipped over too soon and went OB, first time throwing that disc... i automatically self labelled it as "ripping it" but I think its the same as ur "snap". Ill need to go look at ur forehand snap video and also try ur pendulum and windmill techniques... thanks for the great videos.

This was a great topic to cover. Thnks for the vid.

Hi mr stokley i have been playing for about to years afyer watching this video i went to my back uard amd attempted to recreate everything you talk about after the third time i got that snap feeling of the disk leaving my hand it was the best throw ever i normally average about 270 and i would say that throw went easily an extra 100 feet im exxcited about going to my local course and practice this over and over thanks alot for the videos

cool tips man I always love the feeling of a good throw it reminds me of a really good hit playing baseball! I think your totally right about the 100th of a sec thing too

This video sums up the technique of Frispeegolf brilliantly!

Thank God I stopped trying to get snap the wrong way! Scott Stokely is spot on. As I've been improving my form, I've noticed that my body will generate snap naturally and I will feel the generation of power in my wrist/arm if I lined up my feet and hips correctly. If my body position or timing is off, the feeling of generating snap will not be there. Now I know: it's all in the bottom half of the body. Do that right and the rest will fall into place, exactly as Scott says.

This was awesome ... been at it a year and this made so much sense

Thank you for this snap lesson🙌

I knew watching this would give me one key point I was missing. Thanks, can’t wait to try it out next time in the field!

Good stuff, Scott. Thanks.

Been playing since 78 and I am always learning how to throw. Thanks Scott 😎

Wow thank you so much Mr. Stokely. For years I’ve been throwing forehand if I was looking for my max distance.. I just went out to a local school and launched a bunch of backhands 400 - 450 feet with ease. You are AWESOME

Good shit, Scott 👍

Wow...very intriguing...here i always was thinking the fluffy feeling was a grip issue. Everything you said makes total sense

Brilliant! Love the logo intro!

Super helpful video, Thanks.

Very helpful, I have been at this for 20 years. This was the best explained video on how to snap. I have been able to snap before, but duplicating it is much harder. ( practice, practice ,practice)Thanks Scott...

never hurt to rewatch this!

Thanks for all you share in the name of the game!

Awesome, Scott. Thank you!

THis was great!!! Plant foot, get snappy. Thanks bro!

awesome tips, thanks!

Damn good video brother. Thanks Scott we appreciate the knowledge you are sharing.

Thanks for all this Scott. As a player from your era all we had was the instruction to aim at the basket and pull across the chest. Picking up the discs and introducing my girlfriend to the sport after a few decades break I LOVE all these resources especially from a familiar face. You da man Scott. Thanks! Tom PDGA#7617

I've only thrown two drives over 500 ft. I generally max out around 425. On those two 500+ ft shots, my index finger did the same as yours, it bled at the finger tips by the fingernails. I ended up losing both those discs because I wasn't accounting for the extra power out of nowhere and they ended up going past the pin, one at 435 and the other at 460, and going into water behind the hole. I haven't done any consistent work outs or anything to generate that power, so I knew it was all in my form. Something must have clicked and my timing gave me that extra power. Every day, I try and replicate what I did on those two throws. Hopefully I can follow what you were saying and get that whip form down so I can consistently get to that 500ft shot and stop losing discs when it happens lol.

Great clinic! Tnx!

Thank you for the knowledge💯

The first time I tried this, my discs went a lot farther! But I'm 53 years old, and it worked so well that I actually pulled a muscle in my gut. Great job explaining the whip idea. I love how simple it is because you really only have to focus on one thing. Thank you!