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  • @chrisjohn0324

    Like the other guy said, the younger kids are using lighter shots. Also, shot put just takes time. I have only been going at it for a year, so I still only do a power throw. I have managed 42 feet, but I do it as one of my events in the decathlon. I am 18 and 165 pounds. Anyway, just keep at it and, with good form, I wouldn't doubt about 50 feet by your senior year.

  • This makes me feel terrible now I'm a freshman in high school and my best throw at a meet is 38ft 9in, I feel terrible now hearing all these other kids younger than me saying they are throwing 40s

  • @chrisjohn0324 DUDE being a freshman and throwing 38 FEET? Thats insane! At my school and in my division freshman throw in the 19's and low 20's! I'm a freshman and I throw 25-26 max! How can you feel bad? The VARSITY throwers in my division throw between 38-45!

  • @chrisjohn0324 they use lighter shot puts keep doin what ur doin im a junior and i only got 35 but then again i dont throw shot as a main haha

  • i should do thid technique, the spinny one makes me throw the ball at the coaches >_<

  • Carters glide is just amazing. As close to perfect as I've ever seen

  • :38 Dat leg span.

  • Ulf Timmerman is the best glider for me!

  • Udo Beyer 's left leg is way behind his right leg!

  • @gbburness18 you need a big base when you're shooting straight ahead.

  • @cornnellify Thanks for that tip. They are pretty flexible though, they have to be agile!

  • shitty video editing

  • I'm 15 and throwing for my school. My PB for 6kgs is 14m. I'm 6ft and 12,5st can anyone help with which technique i should use.

    Nice music btw

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  • To everyone here whos a power thrower, don't worry you'll find which form works better for you. I started throwing shotput this year for the first time and I ended up increasing a total of 10 ft over one season just from my technique alone. So you people throwing with a 40s and 50s with a powerstance the glide may add a foot or two to your distance, focus on one thing at a time. *Even though i'm an amateur lol*

  • my best is 45 power stance

  • wow....i can only shoot 1 meter....and im a girl....

  • I wish I could glide. I'm a standing thrower of 42'

  • As a throwing coach looking for good film to show my glide shot putter, I want to thank you 1000 times over for putting the compilation together. It's absolutely PERFECT.

  • you little boys let me know when you can standing throw over 45 then well start talking

  • @camwoodford i can. my glide form sucks hard though so my farthest throw is only 51 and change

  • i throw around 35-37 every meet and i'm 14 but they said if i use this technique i'll be bombing 50 . championships this weekend , i hope it works .

  • @kobe24967 m8, soz 2 break it 2 u, but i throw standing still, im 13 and i throw over 37' 10"

  • @spartacus49spandy so do I .

  • during the glide, is it ok to whip the left leg forward after gliding bak to the toebard in order to get extra torque?

  • @TheGinJevv That's what i've been doing and i've been improving quite rapidly. I started this season throwing a 24 and I just hit a 37' 4'' in practice today.

  • @falci52 That's a great improvement! I am still throwing in the 20's and it my first season.

  • @Eldel15 Technique technique technique. I ended up hitting a 38' 6'' in practice but I can't hit higher than a 35 in meets. :[

  • @TheGinJevv its technique, lol. ive dropped down to 200 and maintained most of my strength. i guess i have 3 things i do wrong according to coach and i seem to do one or the other at times.

    1. sometimes i dont have a big chest when i release and it goes flat

    2. when i land i dont have enough weight on right leg or im bent over with no posture

    3. i do this rarely but sometimes i open too soon.

    yeah im working hard though so any suggestion tips or drills to help fight some mistakes i do?

    thnx bud

  • Really the spin and glide, not one is better then the other. It's how the thrower throws it. If the thrower can get more speed (that's the most important thing in shot) with the glide, then use the glide. and vice versa with the spin.

  • what do you guys think would work better for me,

    im a big guy 216-220lbs, bench 300, power clean 240, squat 385 but i got some speed i actually played a lil bit of runningback for my high school team, and im in a very small league so im not in the level of all you other fucking kids that are juniors and are throwing 45 ft i am barely throwing 43ft on shot and 125 on disk.

    but my question: is the spin for guys who are more explosive and have acceleration while glide is for more power guys?

  • PR is 45 :{ junior im bout 2 get 55 next year im benchin 315 right now. and im perfecting the spin watch out!

  • Awesome video, now I understand what my coach was getting at!!!! Thanks X3

  • pr is 49 feet blah

  • ok heres my situation im currenty in the 11the grade and am throwing 38ft. Is there any advice anyone can give me to help me improve my distance because state automatic qualifications are 47 ft... help please...

  • @jackofhearts1994 Weigth room!!! you have to get the power in that arm up.

  • @GaarasFlameFlower it not about the power in the arm but in the hips get the squat, clean and snatch up

  • @jessbb42 --- You're right, i just assumed that was a given. hehe, foolish of me

  • Im a guy by the way

  • @heavysixer77 30ft ain't bad but most champion throwers (depending on your area/conference/state) are throwing above 35ft as a 9th grader and about 40ft as a 10th grader, but a lot of hardwork in the weightroom can change make the difference. It doesn't matter whether you glide or spin cause they are both every effective. Glide is generally more consistent, but spin requires less strength but more time practicing form. GOOD LUCK!!!

  • Im in 9th grade and im throwing around 30 ft. Is this good or no? And should i use the spin (rotating) or the glide?

  • help? i find it really hard throwing in the dimentions of 7ft, i keep brining my foot down onto the block..what van i do to prevent this?

  • @connorlav practice keeping your push leg down more when you glide. That way your foot will hit inside the block instead of ontop of it. Just keep your leg and your push lower. I had the same problem, not too hard to fix

  • After watching this, Im glad in knowing my technique resembles at least one of these guys (Udo Beyer).

    I just REALLY need to work on the speed and power in my right leg. Im not putting in enough Umph to be reversing yet, but when I do it will be quite a sight to behold for me :)

  • great vid im22 , 75kgs &5'11'' been going to gym from past 1 year .\

    also training for sports meet, im using a 7.30 kg or 16 pound shotput

    i use the non spin technique and manges 9 and half meteres , how can i add more meters to my throw cuase record @ games is 16.23 meters

    12 m for qualifying

    atleast 15m for podium finish

  • AC/DC+shot put=man points

  • Nick Doesnt Lift Any type Of Weights That Why He Hasnt PR In About 2-3 Years

  • @LetGo201 Nick does lift weights and he hit a PR by a foot last spring...He also went up like 7 feet from freshman to sophomore year, and he will PR by quite a bit again this year

  • so after the glide, I should land on one leg, not both?

  • @Atkj it really depends on how much explosion your getting

    they getting off the ground because of the explosion theyre getting

  • man i dont see ppl workin with throwing hand out,they just use their leg and shoulder throwing

  • Due to this video i'm getting better and better in shot put!!!!!

  • @RFLORUSSE yeah no doubt,if i had some device to download this on i would just go practice all weekends,

  • carter high school record will almsot for sure be broken next year

  • @Metalr0ck3r no way. Nick is not progressing. (He's at 72 feet he doesn't "need to") For an 81 foot throw one needs to be sturdy. Rhythm gets you 60 or in nick's case 70 but alot of raw power has to go into an 80 foot throw. People say that carter wasn't strong which is BS. THere's only so much that a gym workout will tell you about brute strength. Carter's size will tell you about his strength. He had the speed and experience as well. For nick to be 10ft behind is a helluva

  • @llennroy

    I hear Nick only benches 280. If he could do like 400 or something and had bigger legs he could do it, but I doubt that's going to happen.

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  • @Metalr0ck3r accomplishment. I see him passing 72 but just a tad. Maybe 73 or 75 to top off his career but a 10 foot jump is not in the cards. Especially when your form is as flawless and smooth as nick's. Nick as 9th grade, 10th grade and 11th grade records I believe, carter having the 12th grade record just gives him good company. beside, nick doesnt seem to want it that much, he's done it all.

  • @llennroy true but i think that he will go for it next year, ill ask him when i see him at our tournaments

  • ok makes a lil more sense to me now about the clock lol

  • I think its easy to see where ulf gets his angles from. His head comes back very far so he exploses his chest more than the other guys (so does gunthor).

  • Ulf comes a bit short on the right at the jump, but pulls the shot perfectly from the hip

  • wish my glide was this good haha

  • I think Udo Beyer has the worst technique at least compared to these pictures. He lend on his right leg and the left comes way to late.

  • @langlangbestur yup he does. You're not the only one who thinks he has shit technique lol. Ulf timmerman said so him self. He said his tech was good from 75-1980, it went down from there.

  • well his techinque was actually designed specifically for him. since he had a massive back squat he used what is called a short long glide. doesn't glide far acrossed the ring but he has wide stands so he can get his huge squat into the shot put. his left foot goes high in the air but he actually gets it down fast enough to were he can get some good velocity into the shot. ulf timmermann use a very similar techinque to beyer.

  • @cdeavellar1 concidering they r from the same place, i wuld imagine so lol

  • ulf timmerman appeared on a throwing message board recently and shared his year round training programs.. They are quite effective.

  • Brenner seems to have more flexibility going for him than these other guys i mean just look at his legs and torso

  • also beyer's OBVIOUS weight transfer, how effective is that against the conventional long glide?

  • I have no idea how he gets off good throws with that, his left leg is like the glide version of adam nelsons. Me personally I Need both of my feet on the ground before pushing or else I'll feel off balance. He probably did it soo many times that he was still effective. Odo had bad technique to me though, he was just really strong more so than timermann.

  • unless you have massive back squat and bench like him i wouldn't copy his tehinque. his techinque is designed to use his freakish strength and not very techinquically. micheal carther, ulf ,brenner and gunthor have better techinque

  • pearl groove u r an idiot you want your front foot straight so that you have hip power if the foot isnt straight then your not getting your true potential for your throw.mike carter is just amazing still

  • please explain. everyone tells me about starting at 12 o clock and making touchdown at 9 oclock. are you suppose to start and touchdown at 12?

  • lol, nahh chuck. Imagine the circle as clock. You start with the toes pointing straight out (12 oclock) then glide back and turn your right foot at 9 o'clock (hence touch down at 9) .

  • r u talking about a right handed thrower or a left?

  • right handed

  • if the foot is straight the right hip gets left behind and the upper body is forced to do more work than it should. You want at least some preturn so that the hips can really run ahead and create a catapult effect over the blocked left. Fuebach and Carter both threw 72' with this technique. Hopelfully your response will not include name calling.

  • I must say that of all these guys Werner is superior... at this particular meet. He was in great shape and his performance proves it. Ulf was not transfering well in the middle, Alessandro is just a beast, Udo is an ungodly beast, Laut is unreal!!! A really cool thing to notice is that Carter is the only guy who actually concentrates on really pre-turning the right foot in the middle in the same manner as Fuerbach.

    Awesome vid! NOW GO THROW!!!

  • Ulf had mumps when this vid was taken, and still over 70ft wow

  • Ulf's form is so nice

  • Yes, it tells me that you have 300 million people and a high budget towards athletics... we have... 30 million people?

    I'm sorry that you get so riled up about this, but I'm a pretty proud Canadian :) , I'm movin' down to the u.s. next year on a track scholarship, I have a high respect for u.s. athletics.... just not shits like you

  • It doesn't matter. We're still better. Better is Better.

    No exception.

    Shits?

    ranked 5th in the nation for the junior class is shit?

    Coulda fooled me.

  • hey all you Canada vs. US people guess what, it doesn't matter between us because Europe won 11 of throwing medals, so really, we both lost

  • no actually the u.s. won, even though they (europe) won 11 throwing medals the u.s. still won the track and field portion of the olympics, its not all about the throwers its about the team.

  • yo all americans, stop making dumbass comments on the canadians, im a dual american citizen, so americans really shut the fuck up, and let him talk without starting to call him shit. Assholes

  • Hey 70footer

    What drills do you recommend?

  • that guy looks like a damned gunthor

    these guys are huge!

  • Thanks for the video man.

  • ur proud of a 45..i threw 52 with the shuffle as a sophmore..but now im doin glide its better

  • lol, lets pretend that 45 by a sophomore isnt a good throw. and besides, no one gives a damn about the word shuffle. Its you're either gliding or you're going.

  • wow thats not rude at all. Ass

  • good for you... douchebag

  • lmao i through 78 ft, im in 7th grade and i didnt spin, only swung a 180 degree

  • can you prove it my friend not sayin you cant just askin if you can.

  • ill try :) just got a discus from my coach :D going for 90 ft ;] ill c if i can make a vid

  • maybe in disc

    otherwise your full of crap

  • how heavy is the ball for canadian high scool throwers? ?

    anyone know?

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  • for gr 9's (fresh) its 8.8 (4k)

    for gr 10's its the same

    and 11's and 12's are 5.5 (12lb)

  • umm actually its a 12lb for 9-12 unless your a scrub and have to throw with the junior high.

    I've been throwing the 12 since last year (freshman year) and im a cophomore now and still throwin it not a 4k

    still poppin out fifties though so no worries

  • in canada? no, u throw 4k for 9's and

    10's, and 11 and 12's throw the 5.5k

    and btw no cares what u throw! so theres no need to tell everyone over utube

  • haha

    canada

  • and what do you throw, like 35?

    because Canada is just the place to be for sports huh.

    unless were talking gsp, there's no outstanding athletes even from Canada.

  • ok #1. the guy asked "how heavy is the ball for canadian high scool throwers"

    #2. I never said I was any good, but we do have some good atheletes. Jason tunks for example is a 66-67m disc thrower. Dylan armtrstrong is a 21m shotputter, Scott russel is an 85m jav thrower, and Jim Steacy is a 80m hammer thrower. So check out your facts before u start making dumbass american comments like that. All the other countries expect it of you americans of course, but try to tone it down a bit

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  • really now?

    And just how did canada do in the olympics this year?

    Not sayin you suck but you didnt even get in the top 5.

    USA kinda finished 1st.

    Good job tying for dead last though.

  • AMERICAN = 1 Canadian = as usual.....0 = LAST

  • Amen brother!

    We're just better than them and it makes 'em mad.

    Poor little canadians.

  • Unless you count all your silver and bronzes, you didn't win, but good try.

    On the topic of track and field, how'd all your athletes do :) . We were thrilled to see Dylan in the top 5 and have all our throwers in the finals, it's a step forward for Canadian athletics.

    but man that Tyson Gay! he was somethin special this olympics eeehhhh

  • you canadians really are idiots, you get points for every time you place, and we placed more poeple over all than anyone.

    look it up anywhere.

    we KILLED YALL.

    By a good clean mile.

    And ended up winning the track and field portion of the olympics over all.

    HAVE YOU EVER COMPETED IN A MEET?

    Obviously not or you would know that every place gets points, which we did more than anyone else. PLACED.

    Yall had one medal? A bronze i believe.

    Definitely a step forward in canadian athletics, good job cunt.

  • haha look at you, so protective over the American reputation that you go rippin' it up on youtube!

    Have I ever competed in a track meet? Absolutely, it's my life. If you read my message like a non-ignorant fuck that you are, you'd see that I said we were proud of our progress in track and field, compared to the past, many could say it was a dissapointing year for the U.S.

  • a disappointing year and we still dominated

    tells ya something now doesnt it?

  • you have more population in the U.S then most of any other countries in the world...You cannot say your better when you have more to choose from then most countries. you could not expect a country with a couple million in population to achieve highly, the numbers just dont exist.

  • actually America won...

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  • for the record i do wanna know what people throw that way i kind of know how far i want to get

  • i throw the hs boys 41 feet

  • ya size definently is not everything im a weakling yet i threw 32 freshman

  • ^but that's a weakling distance,no?

  • Man, everyone stop fighting it is not how strong you are, technique will ALWAYS win over brute strength, me and my friend have been spending all spring break working our asses off to make our release perfect and to get a better kick with out glide and we are FINALLY hitting 45 with the 12 (As sophmores) but we worked our ASS OFF for a week we started with our PR's at around 38 feet. So just work hard and you will get MUCH better.

  • i hit 45'8 this afternoon. soph as well or else it wouldnt matter

  • 2nd one was more like a half shuffle

  • Thanks! This really helped to see it real-time...and then broken-down. :D

  • why all the fights on who can throw a heavier shoht , or farther ??/ i think its just good to have fun and try to do your best , i think people sould ooffer advise on technique , because im just learning now

  • Why the fuck is Ulf Timmermann #5 when he is the greatest thrower of all time?

  • that vid is from 1987 World championships in Rome where he placed 5th

  • I threw last year (grade 9) 13.5m with a high school weight, this year Im gonna try to break the 15 meters, it's funny how last year was the first time I ever even saw a shotput and I got to city finals lol

  • wtf u retards the highschool shot weight is 12 lbs god ur stupid and weak

  • alecrayan sounds like a kid at my school. there is this guy from fountain hills in arizona who can shot the shit out of a shot. lol me not so much, i never could glide very well, when i figured it out though i started throwing well. i think if you really want to do well though you gonna do a good spin, a perfect spin is better than a perfect glide. in my opinion. also if you're in high school and throwing an 8 lb shot, then you're a girl, cause thats a girls shot.

  • Man, these men are manly.

  • wow. you guys make me look horrible. i'm in 11th and i only throw like. 25ish feet in shot. rofl

    my problem is that i don't turn my hips enough, besides, my thing is disc and jav, not shot lol

  • Eh,

    Today in practice I threw a 36'8"

    I'm 13

  • how heavy was the ball?

  • 8.8lbs regular 7th grade

  • i somehow seriously doubt that. im 14 and in high school we use 8.8 and im only throwing 40.

  • your just weak is all

  • im just weak is all? baby im 3rd in texas dont do me.

  • That's pretty good

    I'm a sophmore in highschool and my PR is 51' 9"

  • That'ss good.

    What you throw first throw?

  • wait, are you a girl or a guy? cause im a girl. lmao.

  • I'm a dude

  • very good throw beat me by 3 feet 1

  • Dez dudes r beast n i learned sumthin

  • i believe that u can throw a 16lb 30 feet. I am a sophomore in HS and this is my first year throwing and i can hit around 40 with a 12lb and around 37 with a 14lb

  • i would never recommend spinning in the shot put to someone who also throws discus though.

  • why?

  • despite both being rotational, the shot put spin is extremely different from the discus. in the shot, you swing your leg as wide as you can to generate power and your following leg ends up having to come up or else you lose control. In the discus, you need to keep your first leg in tight to generate speed and you have to keep your following leg low to the ground to keep your balance. The shot spin is based on instability while the discus is focused on balance.

  • Think of it like this; how many shotputters that spin, and also throw discus, ever had really good international success. Godina never medaled in discus, Smith's personal best in shot is way more respectable. I'm not saying that you shouldn't spin in both necessarily, just if you primarily want to be a discus thrower. that's what i meant by my earlier comment

  • rotational techinque is better in the hands of the right athlete.

  • At 3:15 ish Beyer could have throw so much farther but he was dead with his left leg and started throwing before he grounded it....amazing

  • that's part of Beyer's usual technique, it is unique to say the least

  • it's just weird but he has great acceleration from his hips and how he keeps his shoulders back for so long

  • all technique starts with the basic, stereotypical technique, and then evolves differently in each athlete

  • ...i think the glide technique is so effective than the spin technique..

  • i dont think so. i find i get much more power from the spin then i do the glide

  • more power from the glide, more speed from the spin.

  • wow i'm 6ft 2 and not bulky at all and my best is 35ft *__* nothing compared to these throwers.

  • I'm a high school sophomore. I threw roughly 30 with a 16.

  • i highly doubt that you throw a 16lb shot 30 feet unless you're a ridiculously huge Sophomore

  • 30 with a 16 is not incredible unbelievabe. I throw 35 with a 14 and 45 with a 12. I'm not allowed to throw an 8.8 but the few times i did it went upper 50's to 60. those stats are average.

  • im small i threw the 16lb about 35 as a sophmore

  • i threw the 16 exactly 40 yesterday. i work better with heavy shots.

  • i threw it 40 ft and im a freshmn

  • with a 16lbs? I throw 48 with a 12 and 50 (maybe 60 is pushing it) with the old freshman shot

  • its funny cuz i threw a 12 pounder 43' and an 8 pounder i hurt myself throwing it like 54'3"1/2"... its very annoying id be a beastie girl shotputter tho... :D

  • 48meterssss!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!??­!?!?!?!?!?!?

  • no1 gives a fuck go brag somewhere else

  • it may look simple, but the glide is an extremely technical style, maybe more than spinning. im tired of hearing people say the spin is more technical. in the glide, you have to move around the shot to get behind it, instead of spinning the shot around you. Timmerman is one the greatest technicians of Athletics ever.

  • man, I'm on the track and field team and I play on the shot put and discus unit and I hope I might be great just like those true gliders!

  • interesting how Beyer took sixth in 87 Rome with 21.13, which would've got silver in Beijing. these men are on an entire different level

  • he guys i have a question. i have a heart problem but im one of the best thowers in my area because of my tech. i wondering if u guys had ideas for me to pick up my speed and streengh

  • we cant help improve if we dont have an idea how good you are

  • lift weights and sprint

  • Feuerbach was only barely 6ft. tall. for that height, 71'5" is great. even 2 more inches of height coul've added 2 or 3 feet to his throws

  • I would include in this video Al too. I don`t know exactly who is the best glider, but according to his physical apttitudes Al is great. And Timmermann have movements that nobody else have.

  • timmermann was the best glider ever. what you smoking. al feuerbach, i give break. he is good but he is not in timmermann league.

  • omggg where's al?! al feuerbach has the best glide ever, not these guys! Plus beyer wasnt that good, he hung his left leg

  • with 2years i throw 11.4m is this good?X-D jaja...8pound? in school we use 16pound and we have to throw 8.50m for the best mark