 the reverse or switching the feet. Whatever you like to call it one of the things you're going to learn it's a tricky thing and a tricky position to hit. But what you want to understand is if you're lining things up it becomes easier and then we're going to talk about in this video a couple of key things to keep in mind to help make that easier so here we go check it out. So in today's video what we're going to talk about is the reverse understanding how we switch our feet as we go through. So a lot of throwers are non-reversers if you look at our classic non-reversers Sandra Perkovich, Robert Harding, Lars Riedel all these great throwers come to mind but when you look at your reversing thrower we're looking at let's look at Alecna Cantor, we're looking at Daniel Stahl, we're looking at Frederick Dakers, we're looking at all these different elite throwers and again there's your reverse. One of the things that makes reversing hard some people teach the jump and switch the feet. Now I understand the logic that that was actually how I was taught to throw but I don't agree with how that method works. What we want to do is we don't want to jump and turn in the air we want to be able to work the ground. So if you look at your reversing throwers one of the things that they really do is as they they elevate and one of the things we do in our system is a heel up and push. If you look at our push pivot drill you're going to see what we're talking about push versus pivoting and we want to keep that knee moving so we're moving the delivery side into the throw. Now one of the things that we kind of talk about one of the easy ways to train our reverse is that we train our throwers to move through the block so they're going to keep the block on the ground and they have to get used to the concept that the throw keeps moving and we time the block leg. Now there's a lot of sequential things going on here. What we're looking at is really position of the upper body. If we have the shoulders opening as we come from what we refer to as our pillar five six pillar five is where we're creating more of this pushing motion and the delivery side out and into the throw and so if we open the shoulders into delivery too soon we tend to pull and so even though we're creating push and on here you notice where the hips are facing so we're trying to get that hip into the throw so we can accelerate the hip through the finish. Now again if you look at some of your best non reversers they come through and there's like a follow through so if you look at like Robert Harding or Perkovich you're going to see that they come through the throw and you're going to watch the the hip elevation and still it moves into the block this way and so you'll tend to see them come through but reversing throwers are going to put that foot down more closed so they can activate that block and push the delivery side in and so a simple tip that we use to help throwers and that we want young throwers and coaches to practice is that the throw doesn't stop here the throw stops the delivery side moves through and past the block so again if we look at from this angle if you look at my delivery side moving here the hip is moving this way so my hips are actually facing to the left of the center line and that's really critical so as I pull into the throw and I keep moving the hips through you're going to notice that the motion I'm showing you becomes very easy you're going to see that reverse coming through so switching the feet or reversing however you want to refer to it that's the major thing that we want to be focused on the thing that we're going to do again when we're thinking about reverse next time you're in practice and you're trying to work on it push the hips don't think finish the throw at six o'clock accelerate the delivery side in past your block and that's what you're going to also notice is going to help you're going to see the block arm stopping you're going to see that long position again where does these things go if we're looking at our throw again as a chain reaction what we set up prior to is going to make that possible if we're doing something like the back in where we're not sweeping correctly and we're shifting that reverse is going to become next to impossible because your body's not in position to allow the reverse so one of the things is if you're training and you have a big time problem with the reverse you're going to want to be real conscious of understanding that you're just in the wrong position and you're shifting out of our pillar five so we're basically bypassing your five and you're going right into six which causes a late block hips are here and so what happens is his throwers come off and they may not be throwing sector files because they're over pulling the discus but you're losing all the ground contact and you're losing and it's becoming an arm throw and you're just decelerating the implement again and you're not going to benefit from the reverse we'd recommend things like the drill down we'd recommend at your sweet position and understanding those common issues with over rotation and that sort of thing because if you're falling off the discus you can't get your hips through again if you're falling here you're going to be falling at the front and that's one of the biggest things that we try to teach in throwing chain reaction so remember that hopefully this is going to give you some insight and help on understanding how the reverse works but for those of you again that are having a really hard time reversing just understand that it has more to do with the fact that you're out of position you can't get the hip through and when you're in a more aligned position you're seeing you're seeing the position of the delivery side coming through you can actually turn past one of the other things again is remember to keep moving past the block so you're going to see that type of finish okay so if you like today's video be sure to give us a thumbs up hit the subscribe button comment below in any other videos you'd like to see those of you who are watching on a consistent basis watching downloading and don't subscribe please hit that subscribe button but we're glad you're watching and getting a lot of information out of this as well so thanks so much we'll see you on the next video be sure to check out our next videos be sure to subscribe visit our website for free videos click the links below we have links to our free mini course check out our websites for camps and different detailed information throw farther faster by understanding the science with the throwing chain reaction system thanks so much for watching