 Ready to start understanding how to hit the rotational shot put in transition to big throws? We're going to talk about in this video, so check it out. Hey everybody, it's Eric Johnson from Maritime Throws Nation. Today's video, we are going to talk about rotational shot put 101. We're going to compare first day thrower to a first week thrower to a multi-year, uh, 17 year old and a multi-year 18 year old. And you're going to see kind of the evolution and you're going to see that they're all working on the same thing. So one of the things if you're new to the channel or if you're new to our IGTV is that the way we look at the throw here is what we call as a throwing chain reaction system. We break the throw down into six pillars. The reason being is that the throw happens very quickly. Brand new thrower on day one you're going to notice is going to be right around two seconds and in advanced under 18th thrower is going to be throwing about one and a half seconds and he's throwing around 70 feet and the first thrower is throwing around 25 feet. Now one of the things that we want to do is we're going to be looking at the throw in terms of because it happened so fast was what we call our six pillars. We're going to look at basically the start and we're going to look at what each pillar does, right? Each pillar basically is a location in the ring. We have an objective. What are we trying to do at that point of the throw? And then we have positions to be able to achieve the objective. The first thrower up, we're going to look at young thrower. This was his first day. We're going to look at thrower number one and we'll just quickly refer to these as one, two, three, and four. Kind of just let everything roll. You're going to notice again the speed of the throw. Again, the young thrower is the first day so he doesn't quite know how to reverse, but you're going to notice the movement is pretty good. So this is the benefit of taking the system, how we break down the throw and how we teach it to a young athlete. So now you're going to see it. We go through our pillar one, pillar two, and now we're looking at how we kind of move our pillar three, pillar four, pillar five, and pillar six. So let's look at how that throw looks when we break it down. So one of the first things that we want to do is we have to understand that setting up the throw is really critical. And that's what we refer to as our pillar one position. As we've talked about with like the discus with the rotational shot, we still have to create separation and stretch reflex. And one of the key things is that we're setting up this entry axis, right? And so how we're going to be able to move around that this thrower number two is only had just made the switch and been throwing for roughly about a week with the rotational shot. Now you're going to notice that as we move the athletes to what we refer to as our pillar two, you're going to notice that we're going to be talking about how we move around the axis. This is going to be the key, how we are going to be able to get the body around here. So the position of this hip and this shoulder right as we look. So if I look at thrower number four, we look at his entry side hip under the entry shoulder, we're going to notice these are the key things. And you're going to notice this is one of the things that the new thrower had learned very well. You're going to see that thrower number one on his first day, right? He's got all the key concepts. So what we refer to on the first pillar is setting up the chain reaction. We're going to set up everything so the body reacts to be able to move into these positions a whole lot easier learning how to move the feet, the arms, coordinating the lower body and the upper body. These are the things that are very tricky for the athlete here. You're going to notice that thrower number one in some ways almost has a better entry hip than thrower number three who's throwing multiple years. So this is where as the athletes are going to be getting older, thrower number two is same thing, but it was again his first week throwing with the rotational shot, but hitting a very nice position and looking at where that hip is underneath that shoulder. So these are all some very good things as we do this alignment, the point of this is that alignment is going to help you as a thrower move through. So what we want to do is make sure that you understand as you go from pillar one to pillar two, setting up maximum power is the goal, right? So we want to set that ability to create all that speed and balance and that's what the the object of our pillar two. So pillar three is where we basically talk about how we're going to drop into the throw and apply speed. So we're going to drop in, we're going into the center of the throw towards the direction, the throwing direction, and we're going to be trying to increase as much speed and power as possible. Point here is we're going to be looking at counter balancing. We have the sweep, we have the counter balance arm. This is going to be real important to the rotational path into the center as you apply speed. And you're going to notice this thrower here has a really nice counterbalance system as this thrower number three and number four. And so you're going to notice that our week one and our week two, these are going to be things that they're going to be continuing to develop. So as we create speed into the middle, we kind of work on our pillar four, we're going to do, this is where we call we're transitioning from the sprint leg to the delivery leg. This is where the upper body is going to kind of pause lower body and wrap in this. What we refer to is bring it all together so that you're increasing that rotational speed. You're going to notice where they all land. So number three kind of goes a little too far and he's landing at three o'clock where we want to have that foot landing closer back to one o'clock. Obviously, if you look at number one, we'd be talking up here. Here's your 12 o'clock thrower number two. Again, really nice job hitting his rewrap getting everything here pulling the left foot into the power position. So we're going to set that up. So now we go into here. This is what we refer to as our traditional power position. And we call this locking down power. We want to have both legs loaded up so that we can create that nice rotational speed into our delivery. And we're going to see that delivery side going this way out and around into our throw. You're going to see that nice long balance arm that's going to take the long path of the upper body to allow the thrower to come into the throw. And now you're going to set up that nice big squared up position. So you're going to notice that thrower number four has a real nice line. You're going to see everything's pretty straight through the back and up through the head. You're going to notice that thrower number three is kind of pulling off. And so that's going to be some strength number thrower number one. Again, day one heck of a great job, really great position. And you can see he's pulling off a little bit. That's going to drop that elbow a touch number two, just a smidge off, but a pretty nice delivery position and a nice elbow and a nice strike. Our next three part series coming up, we're going to go through each thing, go through a little bit more detail. But the key thing is how do you get thrower number one, this good quality of movement in just the first day? You can imagine where this athlete's going to be in multiple years. So the idea was we again, we broke down the throne to six pillars. It's a system that everybody can understand. So whether you're a beginning thrower or whether you're, you know, number one or number four, you know, the top thrower in the US is particular year. And one of the best throwers in high school history is we're working on generally the same things, but as the concepts and the positions become more learned, the details become more critical. But the first things first is when you're approaching, you're throwing the why that we created system, why we're putting out this video is to help you understand that if you don't have a structure to follow and you're not clear on the objectives that you're supposed to be achieving throughout the throw from start to finish, you're going to have a much harder time understanding the throw. You can potentially develop a lot of unnecessary habits that are going to hold you back and limit your progress. Okay guys, so that's it. Stay tuned for the next video. Be sure to like and follow. Be sure to hit that subscribe button, comment below. Remember next video is coming up how to throw the rotational shot put from zero to 70 feet. All right. Thanks so much for watching. We'll see you on the next video.