 Hey everyone, it's Coach Johnson, and what we're going to discuss in this video is we're going to discuss the concept of staying long. One of the key things that happens, what we refer to in our system is we call something the feedback mechanism. Essentially, what that means is that if we stay nice and long and we're going to feel what technique or what the technique is supposed to feel like, we're going to feel the right kind of stretch reflex, we're going to feel the right kind of separation, we're going to feel our position, and that's one of the keys to becoming a better, more advanced thrower. You have to understand what good positions feel like versus bad positions, and if you are simply always in a position that keeps you from feeling the right things, it takes a lot longer to get better, so one of the simple things that we focus on is we talk about staying long, and what we do is you'll notice if we're in the discus, we stay long and in the shot we're going to stay long as well. Now in the shot we've got a shorter circle, the ball sitting on top of us, so we're going to be a little more compact, right? So a seven foot circle versus an eight foot two circle and an implement sitting on top of you versus away from you, so clearly, especially in the discus, to learn those feelings you have to stay much longer. And one of the things we want to focus on for young throwers is understanding how to keep those arms long so that we're feeling these nice lengthened positions. When we feel this type of a position, right, that's going to set up much better understanding and feeling of what the proper throw, where we're going to stretch, where we're going to feel separation. Remember separation is referring to my shoulders are moving separately from my hips and if they move together we don't have separation and if we don't have arm shoulder separation, that's the second type of separation in the discus, we don't feel that stretch reflex. So this is a really, really important thing and staying long is one of those simple tips that helps you do that. So what we want to focus on is as we stay here we want to avoid this and this is why we see when we see kids who start out they kind of turn like this and so you're going to notice that I've got a lot of extraneous arm movement and that's really going to hinder those correct feelings. So you see a lot of kids and they move their arms like this and they're low. So what we always want to do is think of we're turning the shoulders with long arms and this is how we have those nice long positions and that's what you start to see with your world class throwers. They all look extremely long individuals but you'll notice they really maximize the path and the length of what they've of their tools of their levers. So when you go out and train remember a really simple thing to help you feel better positions is simply keeping the body in the right position by just staying long. Avoid the folding at the arms short right when we dip our shoulders and we do different things that's creating shorter positions. If we're always focused on being a long position you're going to feel how that's going to work if everything's long again you're going to feel that you know it's how you kind of dig dangle my fingers I wanted that nice long relaxed position so simple tip big results helps you with your training so go ahead and give that a shot. If you like this video do us a favor please give us a thumbs up subscribe check out AirtateThrowsNation.com for more information free videos and we'll see you on the next video.