15.5# stone
*glide footwork
*glide throws x18-20, last 4/5 were 50+
This was supposed to be a hammer practice, however, considering my stones are still down the shithole I decided to do stones and hammers. That morphed into a stone-only session. I know I'm not tall and glide isn't ideal for me, but it just seems like a simpler movement with less to mess up on. I'm too inconsistent with the spin and while when I'm hitting it I have good results, I've yet to hit it in competition. I need to take my stone to the next level AND be consistent. Will the glide do it? I don't know yet but after a decent practice today I'm going to give it a shot. I'll practice 2-4 times working the glide only and see if I'm coming close to my spin numbers and how consistent they are before making a final decision for a complete switch or not.
So, here are my notes from this session. I'm hopping through the trig. Spoke with Kaste and I need to work on unseating. Allowing my hips to drop and move backwards before actually pushing and will keep my torso in better position. Makes sense. Watched a lot of videos the last couple days and Tomasz Majewski really stands out to me, as well as Ulf Timmerman. Looking closely at their throws here is what I notice:
1) left leg needs to land open
2) right foot has to land under the knee, not too close to the body or else cant push it through
3) push right knee in and down. This loads the shit out of the left leg and drives the right hip hard.
4) once in the power position, there is very little additional linear movement. It almost looks as if once they hit the power position it's all about getting as separated as possible and throwing it as high as possible with as little linear movement as possible.. lots of "possible"s there, sheesh..
Both of them have a relatively short glide due to their height and very wide power position stance. I'll have to make up for this as I'm not 6'8ish so my glide will have to be longer. Everything else I'm going to try to emulate for now and see how I fare. Biggest thing I need to do is get comfortable with the power position similar to how he throws then really strive to feel that position with the glide. I'm excited to move this forward and see what it gets. If it gets me a whole bunch of nothing then I'll just head back to the spin and call it a lesson learned.
Some videos I found useful:
http://youtu.be/tT8_AiPVMG8
http://youtu.be/9dltK64jwlk
http://youtu.be/rfeD7kDOMWo
http://youtu.be/c5K239qXM40
http://youtu.be/IN4obmHimgA
http://youtu.be/SUvRdUY6Hic
Jeff mentioned to watch some videos of Al Fuerbach as we have a similar build. Looking at the video and it looks (with the exception of the start) extremely similar to Majewski's puts. I'll have to watch more.
http://youtu.be/MW_vlolbQPE
http://youtu.be/AmDvRLrhLbk
http://youtu.be/1PwPwFI5e3U
http://youtu.be/v2g_UybGN2o
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