Thoughts.

It’s easy to learn to throw by pinching the rim, and flicking your fingers to propel the disc. Much harder, but much more rewarding, is to use your thumb on top and your ring and pinkie fingers on the bottom of the frisbee’s rim to hold the disc with your ENTIRE hand, using your full grip instead of your pinch grip.

The way I’ve started explaining it is by pointing out that, with a pinching grip, the disc tends to rest in your hand at an angle that is not parallel with your forearm–often much closer to perpendicular in fact. When your arm is out of line with the frisbee’s plane, any throwing motion will naturally confuse the path of the disc as you’re giving it two different planes to work with–often leading to the wobbly, unstable, difficult to control throws (some of this is also arm motion–more on that later–but even that can stem from the fundamentals of how you grip).

Holding the disc with your entire hand–use your thumb on top of the disc and really dent the rim–keeps the disc in line with your forearm, and the frisbee becomes an extension of your arm and your throwing motion rather than working in poor harmony with it. Throwing with touch becomes a lot easier, making IO and OI throws consistently becomes an option…it’s the most important thing for throwing a forehand/blade/hammer.