Throwing Shapes: Outside in vs Inside out - Flik

Throwing: Throwing Shapes: Outside in vs Inside out by Brummie

Discs aren't balls; they can be manipulated to curve throughout their flight. You'll see lots of our diagrams show a curving flight, and reference to "inside" or "outside" used, but how is it done and what do these terms mean?

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What does “inside out” mean? Typically, any disc that doesn’t fly completely flat either curves “inside out” or “outside in”. Some examples of inside-out and outside-in curves can be seen in the following diagram; this is intended to explain the terminology, so don’t take the actual throwing shapes as the only examples possible: Trajectories of tilted discs Blue: Outside-in curve (left-handed forehand, right-handed backhand) Red: Inside-out curve (left-handed forehand, right-handed backhand) Green: Inside-out curve (left-handed backhand, right-handed forehand) Purple: Outside-in […]

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