 How do you prepare when he's a young guy and he jumps into that kind of success real quick? You know, what do you do as a coach to kind of prepare for that? You started Rudy Literally from day one pretty much right Well, he came he came he learned a little few things from like books and video YouTube back then He was No, I think it was yeah, he was a freshman and he went to the indoor nationals He had thrown about 60 feet of two terrible turns and I met his father indoors his freshman year indoor nationals in the Armory. That was the year Alec Faldemeyer through 86 feet. Okay. That was the year After Connor McCullough broke the national record of 93 feet 77 inches that I think will be there forever That's a massive The funny part about that is the year before I started coaching Alec and he threw 59 feet And then he went to nationals. He got second to Connor and he threw 79 feet So in one year he jumped 20 feet, which is kind of incredible But it didn't really matter because he got beaten like the winning throw was 93 feet so it's kind of like Wow for the next year he threw 86 feet, but anyway getting back to the story Rudy Through it nationals and he got last and he came up and he's like, oh, I'm so sorry And I said no, no, no kid. Don't worry. You're gonna be fine Come to practice and we'll start seeing you once a week and then the next year he won it as a sophomore he threw 74 feet Wow, and then that was the start of his success. Yeah, and I think he won indoors three times and he won outdoors Three times Went to the back then they had which is kind of sad. They don't have any more is the world youth under chips They scrapped that a few years ago. I thought that was a great competition because It would like, you know American kids so like that was his first trip out of the country and he went to France and he made the final and That was like that gave him experience right next year. He qualified for the World juniors and the world juniors again the next year so like it was a great experience because You can't buy that experience of going to a major con another country for major competition and You know the call room Call room one call room to walk out to the stadium to warm-up throws and then the meat starts and you have I think it's a minute in between, you know, and you might have 20 minutes in between your first throw or 25 because one guy puts the hammer up into the cage and the officials can't take it down And then there's a hat, you know all these or there's a medal ceremony And that takes another three minutes. So that holds up the hammer and so could be half an hour in between your first throw your second throw Third throw so that throws off a lot of people's rhythm and time and it's a great experience to know that's going to happen. So That's also like an experience as well. Yeah for sure and How many, you know, how do you prepare when he's a young guy and he jumps into that kind of success real quick? You know, what do you do as a coach to kind of prepare him for that being that you've obviously been in some of those those situations yourself So like a couple of weeks before we would do a qualification drill. So I'd be like, okay I'm gonna be there at 10 o'clock you coma 10, but you have to wait half an hour over here So it's sitting his car warm up and I was like, okay, now you're going to the second call room So drive like, you know, drive five minutes down the other end of the road and wait there And I'll call you to come back and I've lined the field and then he walks to the field and he's given a hammer And then like I'll have my other guys practice in and I'll be like, okay The line is at 75 or whatever it is. And now you have to you've got two warm-ups Okay, you ready to go? Okay. And then it just is about he's about to start I'd like stop and then I'll break out my phone and we'll play the national anthem of some country and then I'm like, okay Now you can go and like I try and throw them off trick him because that's what happens in the real world So you have to learn to just okay. I'm gonna bet stroke it. Okay. Now. I'm not so now I just Shut down and okay go again. It's not gonna throw me off. You know, yeah Three throws and nothing else and I I used to have a shot clock as well. Like I would do the countdown He would see it right by the circle Okay. Yeah, that's how you do it, you know you know little things like that you line the fields and You know you make there's always like a big sector line vector line Right to throw it over to qualify and that's your qualifying drill. Yeah, and that's that's been effective It's luckily because I I went to the I went to the European championships I went to the world championships and I went to the Olympic championships in Sydney, Australia, but I never really did well in major championships. So For me, that's now instilled to try and make my kids understand that that's really really hard to do and You got to know how to Perform in a big spig in the big show, right, you know, nationals the state meet, you know Land Steel said on a podcast Over the summer that you know the pressure that he felt as a freshman at the state meet Was the same pressure that he felt at the Olympic Games and it's very true It doesn't matter for whatever level you're at That that meet is important that meet is stressful that meet is Important to the kid that you're coaching you have to remember that too like oh, it's only a small me like states or something if you have a kid that went to the Olympic Games, but For the kid that you're coaching at his level. It's a high level of me So then you have to repair them the same way you would like a top guy Yeah, no, you know what I mean, I absolutely love that I've always tried to prepare my athletes and You know because that's it right you're gonna be you're gonna get less warm-ups You got to be ready to go sooner You got a time it right and I've always kind of stressed that I feel like you know preparing for a State meet is probably Definitely a little easier than an international meet But like you said it's still gonna be the adrenaline factor So if they're prepared they're gonna be able to you know handle handle the situation