 Everybody, it's Eric Johnson from Aritae Throws Nation. And what I wanted to do is kind of inject some different things that I think are super critical for our throwers. And the thing I'm gonna talk about today is this is what can cause conflicts between coach and athlete. This is what creates a lot of limit success for a lot of athletes. What I'm talking about specifically is abandoning something that's working or abandoning something before it has an opportunity to work. Don't abandon your throw. And that's the trap that so many throwers fall into. Like I said, they are doing something and it does start to work. And then they take a jump up and now they wanna do something else rather than continuing to make that pattern even better and more efficient. And that's what we see all the time. We've run into that. Now, most coaches that are watching this, especially advanced coaches, will appreciate this. And I think this is a super critical thing for throwers at all levels. But you're gonna see this with your younger throwers. And one of the things I think we see with a lot of our young throwers here at Airtate Throws Nation is they are coming into a good program. They understand kind of who Airtate Throws Nation is, what we've kind of accomplished, that we've had a ton of success, school records, nationals, titles, state records. We've been very fortunate to have a ton of success and we have rapid success. Last year we had a kid go from 101 feet to 170 feet. So what's the point? Abandoning something that's working. And in that latter example I just gave you where I'm talking about a thrower who was through 171 feet last year in high school in the discus. He was a senior, he rolled in and his PR the previous year was 101 feet. So when he came in he was throwing 80 feet, 90 feet, you know, 70 feet. Like it was not good. And his thing was coach, I don't think I'm gonna be a discus thrower. And I said be patient, give it a month and we're gonna see where you're at. In that month's time he went from throwing 100 to throwing 120, 130, hitting some of those outlier throws. We kept at it then the next thing, then he opened up his first meet and I wanna say it was in the high 130s, then it was 140s, then it was 150s, then 160s, boom, then he hit 171. 70 foot PR in one season. And that is a perfect example. He had I said, you know what, you're right, you're not gonna be that good. Now think about it. This guy was throwing 80 to 95 feet. I mean, this isn't massive throws. This isn't like to look and go oh yeah, this kid's gonna be 160 foot, 170 foot discus thrower. You wouldn't have looked it at that point. But it really illustrates what I'm saying. Abandoning something, throwing is difficult because it's a motor learning patterning, right? You are literally having to learn positions and develop the motor patterns and the motor skills in it's motor learning. Your body's learning what to do, turning your feet, moving your arms, sequencing all of these things. And so for you throwers out there and coaches you wanna illustrate this, remember don't abandon, this is the, I think this is perhaps the biggest pitfall that throwers run into even to a certain extent coaches can do because as a coach you get this stress. You see your athletes stressing so you wanna get them to throw farther and you may say well let's do this. When in fact it's working and you gotta stick to your guns and what we talk about is a J curve success rate. We start slower, we build, build, build and then it boom and it takes off. So it feels slower at first. It's the faster way. Everybody likes to do things that create this big jump but what we find is those are shortcuts and they're not teaching long term foundation things that are gonna be critical. Like if you took any of our throwers at the high school level that had been elite and they go to a college program they're gonna be able to adapt to any system because fundamentally what they've been doing is so on point. So that's the point of this throwing chain reaction system and the six pillars. And remember don't abandon things that are working before you allow them to actually click for you. That is the big trap. You wanna avoid that trap. Thanks for watching and we will see you on the next video. We're gonna talk about in this video is by setting up that trigger and setting up the proper sequence and we got the athlete on balance. Once you're on balance, learning to throw is so much easier and that's where we break down our six pillars of it.