 Throws terminology, it's super, super critical. It's often overlooked. A lot of times you dive into videos, you watch somebody talking about something, including me, and you go, what is he talking about? And in this video, we're gonna take a clip from our recent virtual camp, where we have a long video on Throws terminology, where we clipped out about four minutes for you guys to check it out, some really fundamentals that are gonna be critical for you to understand, so you get better faster. So, check it out. Hey, everybody, it's Eric Johnson, and we are back. We're about to dive into all of our pre-training, and that is gonna be talking about terminology. Now, the very first thing that we like to talk about is we're gonna be communicating direction. And a lot of times we say, okay, we're gonna talk about three o'clock, 12 o'clock, six o'clock. So, because we are now living in the digital age, when I say something like three o'clock, what you're gonna see is most kids think three, zero, zero. Jesus Christ. And what we are going to actually be referring to is the analog clock. So, we're gonna look at our old-school clock. 12 o'clock is the beginning of the throw. Six o'clock is directly the dead center of the sector. Therefore, this is three o'clock and this is nine o'clock. We tend to like the clock analogy because I can keep the clock consistent, whether it's a left-handed thrower or a right-handed thrower, because I'll tell a lefty to turn their... If they're coming out of the back of the ring, we'll turn to three o'clock. Or the right-handed thrower, we turn to nine o'clock, that kind of thing. So, the clock is gonna be real simple. So, when you hear me refer to 12, six, nine, three, eight, whatever, that's the clock we're referring to. Now, let's dive into terms. So, one of the first things we're gonna do is we're gonna start with separation. Separation is the one term that's really the key. Separation, if you do... We do this slingshot analogy or a bow and arrow. We pull that back. That's that stretch and we let it go and that energy. And that's what we're doing in separation. So, it's simply separation refers to the shoulder and the hips separating. Notice my hips are gonna stay forward here at six o'clock and my shoulders right now are trying to turn over here to nine o'clock without my hips moving. And then in the discus, so if I was in the shot, I'd be separated. In the discus, we have two types of separation. Shoulders, hips, arm, shoulders. So, you're gonna notice how my arm kind of disappears. And a good way to illustrate that is when I show you with the use of a band. So, you're gonna see when I separate, right? And then I separate again. And if I was throwing the shot, I would see separation and that would be pretty much it. Because I don't have double separation in the shot. Separation is gonna be something we do at two places in the ring. We do it at the start of the throw. And then as we throw, we get separation here in the power position. We're gonna talk about that too in case you don't know. So, the next term, stretch reflex. And stretch reflex is when I separate and you see my body kind of sling back. So, basically what that means is it's the longest point of when a muscle stretches and it reflexively contracts. And that's a very fast motion. So, one of the examples we like to do when we're teaching people is push your hand against your chest like this. And then just push hard down, pick up your finger and how fast can you snap your finger down, okay? So now, push down again, push against your hand, peel your finger up and snap it. That's stretch reflex and we're trying to teach you how to move to create stretch reflex in your body. So, the next term we're gonna be discussing is the radius. The radius refers to the length of the implement or especially in the discus. How far is your arm, right? The big radius. You gotta have a big radius. Want the arm as far away from possible. So, the distance from my hand to my thigh is shorter. The distance from my hand to my thigh is longer. The longer the radius, the further you throw. So, that's gonna be important. Now, the radius ties into what we refer to as the orbit. And the orbit is where the path of the discus is moving. You see how it's kind of moving across. So, this is what we would refer to the high point. As we would come around the throw, the discus would kind of come down. And then as we turn, it hits, this is the high point of the throw. But notice the orbit. So, we're gonna have high, low, high and then out around in delivery. So, that angle and so when that orbit gets off and or the orbit gets off and affects the radius, these are negative things and these are basic terms. And we will again, as we start talking and we talk through the pillars and the six pillars of the throwing chain reaction, we're gonna be referring to separation, stretch, reflex, radius orbit, these sorts of things. And sometimes people are like, what exactly does he mean? And that's why we're making this video.