Welcome to the course where we learn how to practice efficiently and according to science!

Joonas Merelä shares a bit about himself before we delve into the subject of training.

Let's look at disc golf from the coaching perspective.

Let's start to look at the physical aspects of disc golf. Here we define what disc golf is when you look at what kind of physical aspects there are in disc golf.

What does force mean in the coaching context, and why is that important?

Comparing a speed-trained athlete to a strength-trained athlete and what kind of training would be beneficial to each profile.

In physical training, it's typical to divide training into these three categories: Speed, Endurance and Strength. Here we take a peek into how to train each one and which ones are more important to disc golfers.

Let's talk about what aspects of our physical performance affect our ability to throw the disc. We want to share some hard evidence on the way of practicing.

You hear the concept of kinetic chain tossed around. Well what is the kinetic chain?

So what is the elementary structure of a backhand throw?

Now we go through what the studies show on how the energy goes through the body and which parts of our body produce the larger portion of the total force needed to throw the disc.

Let's look at the relationship between speed and time, and why it is important to understand.

Let's look at the forehand and where the speed comes from. Really useful information when practicing your technique!

What is the reason to practice for more speed?

Let's put the things together and summarize this segment

This segment will be about the principals of training. There are certain things that need to happen in training for us to get better. Here we look at these cornerstones so you can understand what successful training foundation is laid upon.

Training needs to be regular.

Training needs to be also specific so we know what to train.

The stimulus needs to change regularly.

We need to take our body beyond our baseline to be able to get that progression. This will raise our base level higher.

Practice is also very personal.

So we aim to get better and progressive training is the key element in that.

One easy part to progress is the volume progression. Let's look at what that means and establish that term.

There is not that much load progression in the game of disc golf, but your supplementary training at the gym might include this.

This is definitely a progression that you need in disc golf. Let's see what that might look like.

This segment will cover principals of skill training and the basics you should know when planning your own training.

Here we start to talk about how to train your skills.

It's important to understand what the general phases of learning a skill are and what the end goal is.

In the beginning, our brain doesn't allow us to move as we want, even if we try very hard. Let's look at what the so-called freedom level is about.

Let's discuss which one comes first and why. There are scientific studies that give us the answer.

We talk now about what the science says about learning from doing and what kind of methods you should use if you want to maximize your learning.

Where should you focus your attention: your internal actions or external inputs?

Here we give you a couple of examples on what the external focus of attention means in putting. You can apply this by thinking your own ways of focusing on something external rather than focusing what your body is doing.

Here is a second way of practicing putting with a clear external focus of attention.

Adaptation happens when you learn so you need to push yourself beyond past that point.

If you wish to practice effectively, you need to set goals. Your goal may be only to have fun, but it is important that you have that goal in your mind when you practice.

This is a very simple and effective five-step technique you can use to set your goals. It will give you the necessary tools to set your own practice routines. You might want to take time to watch this because it is important and contains much information.

Here Joonas Merelä is talking about what he does with his players in long-term goal setting.

Now Joonas Merelä shows you what his mind map looks like and how it should be used to make the goal more clear and achievable

Here we are at the end of this surface scratch of the science and methods of Joonas Merelä. Let's wrap this thing up.