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I have recently gotten into disc golfdisc golf, and an interesting phenomenon happens when you throw a disc hard. If you throw a disc right hand back hand, so that the disc spins clockwise, at high velocities the disc will start to tilt to the right (clockwise) and move right, then as it slows it tilts back left (counterclockwise) and finishes to the left. I'm having trouble coming up with a good reason that the velocity and/or the angular velocity slowing down would have the opposite affect on the tilt of the disc.

I have recently gotten into disc golf, and an interesting phenomenon happens when you throw a disc hard. If you throw a disc right hand back hand, so that the disc spins clockwise, at high velocities the disc will start to tilt to the right (clockwise) and move right, then as it slows it tilts back left (counterclockwise) and finishes to the left. I'm having trouble coming up with a good reason that the velocity and/or the angular velocity slowing down would have the opposite affect on the tilt of the disc.

I have recently gotten into disc golf, and an interesting phenomenon happens when you throw a disc hard. If you throw a disc right hand back hand, so that the disc spins clockwise, at high velocities the disc will start to tilt to the right (clockwise) and move right, then as it slows it tilts back left (counterclockwise) and finishes to the left. I'm having trouble coming up with a good reason that the velocity and/or the angular velocity slowing down would have the opposite affect on the tilt of the disc.

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Why does a spinning disc turn before it fades?

I have recently gotten into disc golf, and an interesting phenomenon happens when you throw a disc hard. If you throw a disc right hand back hand, so that the disc spins clockwise, at high velocities the disc will start to tilt to the right (clockwise) and move right, then as it slows it tilts back left (counterclockwise) and finishes to the left. I'm having trouble coming up with a good reason that the velocity and/or the angular velocity slowing down would have the opposite affect on the tilt of the disc.