Friday, May 10, 2013

wfd finish restructure

Was thinking last night how I can throw wfd further. While I'm already throwing fair distances there is certainly room for improvement. So I started watching videos of some of the big throwers and paying attention to their finish in comparison to mine. Here's what I found:

Brebner lwd WR: 94+

MattV 90+ in training

Frasure hwd WR 49+

MattV lwd NA record 94+

What are we looking at? The right side hip driving the weight forward, leading it and loading the left for a huge block and push into the field. For the record, these just happened to be the vids I have saved on my phone. I watched Larry Brock and he doesn't do this on his weights. Very interesting. Vierra does it exceedingly well but I didn't have a good angle to show it. The pleasaton hwd vid on youtube shows a great angle. Anyways, moving on.

Compare the above finishes to mine..

45+ hwd

42+ hwd

87+ lwd

43+ hwd

86+ lwd

And the one throw I unknowingly nailed it happens to be my 89ft lwd training pr


In comparison, my finish position is awful. I've been using my upper body and dropping my hips to drive the ball to zero. I need to pivot my right foot, drive my knee forward/in and really push my right hip to lead the finish. Throwing wfd tomorrow along with everything else. Going to be doing some standing throws to drill the position, then some 1 turns to drill the position with an active finish and hopefully if all goes well try to implement it into a full throw. This is a very intersting mental breakthrough for me and I'm exciting to see what it yields. It's obvious you don't NEED this position to throw well, however, I want to drop bombz and to do so I've got to get my tech as efficient as possible in every position. 

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