 Hey everyone, it's Eric Johnson from Maritime Throws Nation and in this video what we're going to do is another terminology video and we're going to talk about the basics of the heel-toe position. So the heel-toe position, you should have heard many times is a real basic thing, we're talking about your delivery side foot heel lines up with the toe of your block leg. So that's your heel-toe position. And what we have, what we want to understand is that if so if I'm throwing in this direction you're going to see that I'm going to line up and I'm going to be heel-toe. In this particular circle I have a line on my ball the foot's on, I'll put my heel on the ball that foot and my toe is behind that and you're going to see how I have this split position. It's a super basic term and it's a thing but again each and every year when I when I work with brand new throwers or coaches that are entering coaching for the first time they're not entirely sure what that is and the reason that we want a heel-toe position is that when we rotate into the throw we want to have the ability for our hips to open up. If we're heel-toe we're going to kind of be turning on this tightrope and really what's going to happen with the amount of time that occurs in a throw through the delivery it's such a very short period of time, so many tenths of a second that we're not going to be able to get our hips through the throw on rotational throws or for that matter even a glide. So the heel-toe applies to the glide because the glide's a little bit more linear you may some people prefer not to have as big of a heel-toe but you still have that stagger because the hips have to be able to turn into the direction of the throw. So if I go too far you notice I'm going to pull myself off my right and I'm going to have a hard time getting the delivery side through and what we're going to have is energy going this way out of the sector and it implements we have a divergence of energies at the transfer point right so we have our everything splitting across instead of coming together and transferring out and if we land too closed right so if we land here and we're not heel-toe and say we're the opposite heel-toe where we have heel-toe you're going to see this is where you'll get a lot of sector files the foot comes down the hips can't get around to here and I'm most likely going to throw a sector file so this little simple thing of heel-toe alignment is really critical and it's really important to understand and a lot of times I'll see throwers setting up too much setting up not quite staggered enough and then on their full throws you're going to see them putting the foot down and that's usually going to relate to other problems beyond of how they enter the power position not that they just don't know how but there are plenty of drills and things that teach you how to do that right so the point of this video is to help you understand heel-toe positions a really simple concept again but it's really important for you to understand and then that's really setting those feet those are those fundamental things that make a huge difference on your ability to improve faster and understand what's happening in a throw using the right language as part of developing as a thrower and as a coach and so we hope this video helps you do just a bit and if you found it helpful please be sure to give us a thumbs up subscribe visit AirtayThrowsNation.com for more throwing information videos and we'll see in the next video