 Ready to learn how to lockdown power and smash the finish we're gonna talk about part two of how to throw the discus in this video Check it out Everybody it's Eric Johnson from air today throws nation in today's video We are going to continue from our last video which was kind of a setup We went through some terminology and today we are gonna be talking about pillar five and pillar six So what what does that mean to you? How do we create a ton of power and how do we nail that finish in our discus? And that's what we're gonna be talking about here and you didn't catch the last video definitely check that out We covered some terminology and things that we'll be using in today And if it is your first time here, be sure to hit that like button and subscribe So again one of the things we talk about in the throwing chain reaction is we want to look at how we set up the throw And how that influences throw it happens super fast one and a half to two seconds Most of these athletes are closer to that two second range and we have one advanced high school thrower in this clip But now we're gonna look at things in terms of the six pillars We just looked at one pillar two pillar three right now You can see the positions pillar four pillar five and what we're gonna do is then finish up big and six So the whole point of the six pillars is as you could see it's visual now You see how I have this locked right here. This is pillar five You're gonna notice that each of these athletes are in different mechanical positions And what we're gonna do is again, you can learn a ton by looking at the best throwers in the world So if we're looking at like Sandra Perkovich or Yami Perez the current world champion from Cuba Daniel Stahl Frederick Dakers, you know a number of these guys the thing that you're gonna notice They're doing so many things right They're throwing at a very high level big strong very athletic years and years of work to get to the point Where they're at and now when you look at the developing thrower You see the challenges that you're gonna face as a thrower or as a coach if you are a thrower You're gonna be able to relate to one of these images. You may see your future self You may see your current self and if you're a coach you might be in a situation where you have all of these most of these athletes I've worked with all of these athletes and the ones that I'm not working with they're using the throwing chain reaction system It really helps to keep things organized keep everybody on the same language and looking at the throw for the similar things And that's what's one of the main things so again what we showed you was the six pillars again Looking at each thrower here. You're gonna notice that's different So this is the beginning of pillar 5 and so what we're gonna do is we're gonna take our throwers as they come out of pillar 3 Into pillar 4 and now I'm gonna move you from that transition So right here we start moving and now we're gonna start our pillar 5 and you're gonna see big differences So we talked about radius we talked about high point in the last video and we talked about axis of rotation How do we pivot in on the delivery leg into the throw? And so here's a perfect example this athlete too far too active with the upper body This athlete again younger get too out too active with the upper body If I run it back a click and you look here You're gonna see how they shorten the arm the hips are a little back the discus is a little low This athlete up here You're gonna notice again when we get to that pillar 5 brand new This was the first week this athlete had only been throwing week So this is pretty good position nice level shoulders We would work on kind of maybe making that arm a little longer, but some a lot of good stuff going on here Here's a 10 year old athlete that's super talented hits fantastic positions And we go in the next video when we talk about pillar 3 4 and we go from the whole thing from one All the way through the whole pillar 6 you're gonna see that this athlete has Arguably maybe has some of the best technique here and she's only 10 here's another athlete You're gonna see shoulders a little high discus is dropping down. She comes out of a good high point But her body kind of tilts like this She's new to the system We're addressing strength issues and these are all things that are gonna play into your technical development And then we have this athlete here very talented Has thrown quite far as a 16 year old You're gonna notice the difference that this is on par with what you're seeing with more elite throwers You're gonna notice that the hip position The knee ahead we've got the lower body moving ahead this really nice stretch hips underneath You're gonna create fast rotation and so as we come into our pillar six The thing that we're gonna be looking at right? This is our pillar five So again, what do we want hip under the shoulder mechanical positions? We want to see that knee pushing in front of the toe good good movement here Not as good as a little more up here because the upper body being so active early is pulling the athlete out of position You can see how this athlete's shoulders are behind and again This is where we're gonna use this athlete and this athlete are the best Technically and you're gonna notice when we take it back just to click again And you see right here how the shoulders are level Level you see that and you see how these are open and tilted these are tilted and these are level So the key things that we're really looking for and we get that we call pillar five and you start that power position We want those hips underneath the shoulders and we want those shoulders level that's gonna create a whole bunch of good things You're gonna be able to rotate faster into your finish This is where we're getting down and we're also talking about once we get to that pillar five position Everybody locks it in we want to see that block foot on the ground this one you can see is a little up We got both feet kind of in this direction and we want to see that block foot down a little bit more You can see here. This is good This foot's floating in the air and this foot's getting popped on the ground really nice So they're gonna gauge the block so Mechanically again, this is how we're trying to set up maximum power and lock it down. We always talk about that We want to see those double loaded legs. So we're gonna rotate faster and move into the direction of throw So when you want to create more power into your finish, you got to be down on the ground You want that hip under the shoulders shoulders level and again You're gonna notice that the chest is slightly You got this very very mild angle here Okay, so as you come around you have to move this way if your shoulders are back You'll see this athlete and again that's because the athlete's too active with the upper body And so the athlete's pulling back and this athlete's here now What's going to be interesting as we go into pillar six What we're going to be looking now is blocking this side blocking the leg keeping the foot on the ground Okay, we want to see the long path of the shoulder as it comes out of five Into six you can see this athlete. You can't really see the arm this athlete You can see they're already pulling open this athlete the elbow is coming up this athlete the elbow is up way too high So that's keeping this so she's going like this and that's going to create a shift What are we looking at when we go through mechanically for pillar six? Why was I explaining that because if the shoulders stay level and long and around You're going to be able to engage that block. This is what I think the new athlete does very well This athlete has been a glide shot putter and it's pretty new to the discus as well But you see how she's pulling over and she had come to this practice and hadn't thrown in a long time Again, this athlete blocks, but it was so early that when she stopped here It becomes a slap this athlete again You can see the young athletes pulling down a little bit but stops that block site and what what i'm trying to point out here From a mechanical standpoint, there's a lot of information pull the arm in I've seen coaches who teach that I don't disagree with it But there's a real fine line between pulling in and pulling back behind you see that difference And you're going to notice that the more advanced throwers are going to notice this on the world level That when they hit they stop the block and everything comes around So you're going to see how this athlete is just crushing the hips through great block leg This athlete is working on that but the shoulder and now the elbow are behind the back Elbows behind the back elbows slightly behind the back And now look at this is your more more advanced athlete This is a multi-time national champion and again an athlete that i've worked with since the age of 11 She's 17 now and you can see the the positions Now when you see i'm going to show you this as as we finish these are the positions So look at the lines you can see again You want to see how this athlete the spine lines a little off this one's relatively straight but pulling backwards, right And you can see again this one pulling backwards pretty decent spine line a little bit of a tilt here But everything stopped and still a nice stretch on the discus But you can see our more advanced athlete is really extending the radius and the spine line is a little bit this way Which is what you're going to see with more elite throwers And so as you come through watch what happens as once the discus leaves the hand We're going to see the byproduct of the good mechanical position So as the discus goes and we take everything away, you can see how this athlete is pulling around This athlete's pulled around As we continue to go up on the top athlete arm is still stopped Arm is still stopped arm is pulling around look at the advanced athlete hits Comes through look at the follow through see how the arm stayed with the side of the body So that's going to be really important to understand that block it It comes and everything moves out and around So when we take it back one more step when we look at our more advanced athlete, we're going to see that Watch how the arm stays long When she comes out again Look at that level that shoulder comes up a little if she maintained it all the way around it'd be Even that much better But now you can see as she comes through and hits And again always after the release as we come through the reverse She's coming all the way through and you can see how again recovery On balance block arm still staying with the side of the body Now that's looking at it. And this is what I said briefly at the beginning There's many things you can look at and today we were going to focus on your core positions And those mechanics and understanding those kind of core things. Remember strength rhythm all these things play a factor Into what you're trying to do when you're working on your throw And that's the whole point of our six pillar throwing system We want to be able to show you and look what's more optimal in the position again We want to throw optimally right where everybody's going to have their best way to throw So not everybody's going to throw the same way, but we show you how the six pillars What are we trying to do is isolate and show you what are the core mechanics that we're trying to achieve And then as you get better and better your own style will evolve So remember pillar five is we're locking down power and pillar six is we're really finishing big And that's that monster finish that everybody wants last thing on we look at the mechanics when we look on pillar six Again, look at that knee going in front. Look at that knee going in front watch everything coming around See this athlete is struggling to get that knee And so she's not really able to get those hips around and so she's pulling the upper body And that's why she pulls down and almost pulls off balance This athlete is doing something similar This athlete is new and this was a personal best and again had only been throwing a week So that was a really good thing had been trained on the most recent version of the throwing chain reaction system And had been doing a really great job and this athlete's coach uses the throwing chain reaction system from day one That's what this athlete's learned. She's only 10 and she has phenomenal technique as we go through the next videos coming up Right i'm going to cover the transition from i'm going to talk about how we get speed into the middle and how we create that Big rewrap and high point so that we're creating all this tension that's going to lead into our pillar five six So that's what's coming up on the next video if you guys have questions I'd like to hear what stood out most in this video comment below If there's anything else or any questions you have about this video be sure to comment below Remember if you are interested in diving in more we have nine different drills for pillar five We have nine different drills for pillar six part of our pillar five Drills is what we have is pillar connection is that connection of what that movement of five to six So we have five drills in there for that if you'd like to learn more about the throwing chain reaction system Visit our website click the link in the description and if you missed anything check out the last video And we'll see you on the next video