 What's up everybody? It's Eric Johnson from Airtate Throwzation. In today's video we are going to talk about a simple thing that adds distance to your discus and we're going to talk about this in an extension of the add 20 feet video that we did a few years ago. I'd encourage you to check that out. One of the things we talk about in that video is turning the hand. Now we always talk about turning the thumb so that you see this kind of line and now you see the thumbs here because you'll notice that it creates this nice little ledge for you to carry the discus. So we have multiple throwers here. Two of them have no problem with that and one is learning that. He just added about 15 feet to his last throw and he's bewildered as to how that could have possibly have happened. So we are going to actually show you again our three demos. So we'll have Carson go. So Carson shows how it works. Cam get over here because you have a hard time with this and then James you get our advanced thrower. You'll see that he has no problems with this. Okay, so here we go. Hold the disc. Well, we're just going to have them hold it up and we're just going to show this and then how this is basically going to help the thrower, you the thrower or coach help your throwers. This is the first thing that needs to be learned as this is some athletes. So this is uncomfortable. We had an athlete at one of our last camps, 11 years old. He was only throwing 30 feet. What was the issue? Not as necessarily as ability, but he couldn't hold the discus right. Big deal. That's not something that takes very long. But some athletes are going to need a week or two weeks to get this down. Literally, it should take some throwers, you know, one practice. This is what makes your naturals, the guys that picked this up quick. And this is something we talk about as pre-camp materials to all of our camps that we do in the summertime. And this is one of the first and foremost things that is so critical for athletes to learn. So go ahead again, Carson. We're going to have you demo it up. So he's going to hold the discus and you're going to see he's just going to kind of comfortably hold it. So he can kind of feel the discus. Now he's got that little ledge. Now he's going to be able to maximize the radius and that's going to help him create more sling and tension on the discus, which is exactly what we want to do. Okay. So go ahead and just wind. Do your thing. You'll have that. And now just keep nice, easy throw and pull through. Okay. So we pulled it and we're working on not dropping the shoulder. Check out our video on keeping the hips and shoulders level and turning through. So Cam, this is a perfect example. So Cam's actually been in our club for most of this, this season, this year. He's done a really good job. He's added 30 feet to his discus. He's added almost 10 feet to a shot this year. So, but he's still not carrying the discus quite comfortably. So we just are doing it now. So Cam, let's show him how, what you're learning. Okay. All right. So watch. So as he holds the discus, he's going to bring the discus back. Okay. And so you're going to see. Yeah. So, oh, this is so much better than it was literally 10 minutes ago. Okay. So he was cupping and he, when I told him to turn his thumb, so you'll see here he was literally taking his thumb and doing this. And what we wanted him to do is tilt. So now the discus sits and he can feel that comfort of dragging the discus. So let's go ahead and take another throw. Let's do a full throw. No pressure. Okay. Go ahead. All right. So he's kind of feeling this comfort position on his full throw and how he's going to hold that discus. He's going to turn that thumb and you can see, he did not do it the way he did it before we put him on video. So you'll notice we're going to play that back and we'll put the video up. You'll notice he's going to watch his hand turning over. This is because he's not carrying the discus right that enables him to stretch that radius. Now I'll have James demonstrate. And it's just something that James does very well. And then we're going to have James take a throw and we're going to have you make sure you feel that good chest hold position and pillar four, but we're going to, this is something James automatically does. We don't have to teach it. So you'll see what it looks like. He's very comfortable and you can see when you hold the hand like this, you're creating this nice ledge. The discus isn't going to fall out. You see so many athletes, they feel like the discus is going to fall because they're not hitting this position. Okay. So James, you're going to go ahead, do a throw, hit a really big chest hold pillar four and then watch the stretch and how the discus comes through. Okay. There we go. So very nice throw. Okay. And again, James is coming back. We're about 10 weeks after freeze, resume training from 10 months out due to an Achilles injury. So he's moving it very well. We're really happy with the training, but this is one of the things an advanced thrower typically doesn't have to deal with. And you can see that's really allowing him to lengthen the radius and feel that nice stretch and pull. And you just saw the difference. And again, here's our different levels of throwers and our young thrower with having the most issue. One of the core simple things, we could look at all the different things at the different pillars, but what we always try to emphasize is you have to get that discus carry and that hold correct. And then everything else becomes 10 times easier because when you're not carrying it, you're inherently feeling the discus, feeling like it's going to fall out. This eliminates that problem. Okay, guys. So thanks so much for watching. 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