Ooh, thanks for finding that. I really should've done a better job myself of seeing if there were threads like that out there. My thoughts:
They definitely got the idea from more or less the same place as me, they mention watching "Driveline baseball videos" which is the company founded by the guy Kyle Boddy mentioned in one of the quotes above (https://www.kyleboddy.com/)
Where I think the poster of that Reddit thread goes wrong is saying the want to throw a "1-4 lbs" disc. The pitchers in the book use 3 - 11 oz baseballs when a normal ball weighs 5 ounces. So, going by the same ratio you'd never really need to throw a disc more than 175*11/5 = 385g or so (14 oz).
But the commenters in that thread show off exactly the same stuck in the mud thinking that "traditional" baseball coaches do in The MVP Machine. Not sure any of them are fully in support of the idea. People talking about how all you need to throw far is a lot of spin...all the spin in the world is worth jack if you don't also give the disc a ton of forward velocity
I found this interesting reddit discussion about whether throwing heavier discs will help you with disc golf distance: https://www.reddit.com/r/discgolf/comments/lilv3e/could_throwing_a_weighted_disc_develop_distance/
Ooh, thanks for finding that. I really should've done a better job myself of seeing if there were threads like that out there. My thoughts:
They definitely got the idea from more or less the same place as me, they mention watching "Driveline baseball videos" which is the company founded by the guy Kyle Boddy mentioned in one of the quotes above (https://www.kyleboddy.com/)
Where I think the poster of that Reddit thread goes wrong is saying the want to throw a "1-4 lbs" disc. The pitchers in the book use 3 - 11 oz baseballs when a normal ball weighs 5 ounces. So, going by the same ratio you'd never really need to throw a disc more than 175*11/5 = 385g or so (14 oz).
But the commenters in that thread show off exactly the same stuck in the mud thinking that "traditional" baseball coaches do in The MVP Machine. Not sure any of them are fully in support of the idea. People talking about how all you need to throw far is a lot of spin...all the spin in the world is worth jack if you don't also give the disc a ton of forward velocity