 Hey everybody it's Eric Johnson from AirTayThrowsNation and welcome to our Monday video breakdown and we're going to look at a six pillar comparison where we're looking at a developing thrower versus a pro thrower. So what we're going to do is we are going to look at a young athlete who came out here to Arizona from Florida to train, he was converting from the glide to the rotational throw and then we're looking at current world champion Joe Kovacs but we're going back to one of his throws in 2017 where he threw 2257 which was his then PR. So we're going to notice as we go through this you'll notice the difference in the speed. So Joe here is throwing, this is a 73 high I believe I should have done my conversion but 2257 we're in that big 73 foot range so now we look at somebody like a young thrower and we'll go back and take a look here. So what you're going to see is as they start we'll play them one more time they're synced up and you're going to see the difference in the efficiency of the speed. So when we look and we look at them throwing in full speed you're going to see you know it's hard to tell. Now we break it down in slow mo we can kind of look and now what we're going to do is kind of break it into our six pillars. So we're going to look at how actually close they are and what's the major difference that's making up that extra half a second in speed. Remember the throw happens in basically one and a half seconds for Joe in about two seconds for Ryan. So what we're looking at is the thrower and actually seeing that the difference between a developing thrower and a world-class thrower is actually pretty similar but it takes years of practice and this is why we developed again the throwing chain reaction system we're going to look at these six pillars we're going to train specific movement patterns in each and what we're going to do is now do a little comparison. Okay so now we'll take it back and we'll look at the start and again you're going to look at the similarities. So you're going to notice again what we like to refer to as the setup Joe's style is probably in some of this technique has changed up a little bit which I think is one of the things again you're talking a guy going from 73 to 75 feet it's going to be small detail changes but for today's video what we'll do is we'll just comparing and when you look so we have a similar setup and this is what we teach in pillar one how are we going to create replication you're going to notice again similar positions now Joe has always kind of had a little bit more of this straight leg and again his style is a little different than some of the other world-class throwers because of his height and some of his physical attributes he's an amazing athlete incredibly strong incredibly fast whereas you have a younger athlete who's developing his strength levels and that's going to be one of the things that's going to help him be able to move quicker. Now that being said this also has an impact on how he's going to be able to set positions in pillar one we call it setting up the trigger setting up the throwing chain reaction so now what we're going to do is we'll look and you'll see that as we go to our pillar two what we're doing is is we're setting up that maximum power we're teaching the athlete how to utilize the long entry arm we're setting up how the axis works in the leg and you're going to notice again the difference where Joe has always been historically up forward on the feet which is great which is how you're going to be able to move out and around the axis a lot more efficiently and that's what this young thrower here is learning so now what we'll do is as he moves into what we call pillar three this is where we're going to have the sweep and so you're going to notice the difference especially when we go back here where we've dropped in you're going to notice right there you're going to look at how much faster Joe's sweep leg is so that has to do with how we're moving aggressively off that leg and you're going to see Kovacs right is really dynamic you see the nice wide knees the long entry he really pulls himself into the throw and we're trying to teach this young thrower kind of the same thing how does that arm open around and get to this point and again we were teaching him how to be a little more active here and you're going to notice when we do that Joe's arms going to be out here and probably one of his changes here which you saw in 2019 was he actually had the arm a little bit more open and there was a couple of nuanced style changes and technical changes that really enabled him to really get back on top and claim that world title but again you'll notice that what for sake of comparison we're looking at wide knees we're looking at the position the foot you notice how this thrower's foot is tends to be more down not a bad sprint position but you're going to notice that Joe actually has this shot back a touch more and there's and that's really talking about the he's going to begin the upper body lower body separation process so now what we do as as we go into our pillar four this is where we're really training the we call it the twist and wrap and so we'll refer to it as the axis transition and again this is going to be you I'm going to do a comparison coming up on Joe versus Joe you know comparing 2017 Joe to 2019 Joe but at any rate the point here is to see how we're teaching the athlete how to stretch hold right so we're creating separation and again if you notice how the athletes moving again you're seeing some pretty close stuff that the left is moving to the board the left movie here moves to the board and now we'll go right into the power position and you're going to see that Joe really starts to accelerate at this point this is the difference there's that half second and again the concept with our six pillars is how are you going to work on all of these things in two seconds you have to break the throw down and work your positions and then put those positions back together to work the fluid continuous accelerating motion of the throat we look at the power position you look at the length of the arm look at how this is I think one of Joe's high points of his technique the way he's able to he keeps the delivery heel up to create a really fast powerful rotational axis so you'll notice that our thrower here has the heel not quite as high and he has this foot opened a little bit more and we're trying to get that foot more into this position here where you see Joe's foot's aiming probably what we would say you know seven o'clock 45 degrees kind of but you see the feet setting up here so this thrower by pulling that foot open is going to actually kind of create just a touch shift forward whereas you're going to notice with most of your top elite guys they're gonna have that foot there because that's going to enable them to engage the block faster and you're seeing that the heel generally comes down which is something you didn't see as much in Joe's 2291 throw so it's always interesting to look at here's a 73 foot throw versus 75 foot throw and those details are really small that could vary from throw to throw but his PR those were the keys that we saw so at any rate as we finish up here and we go into delivery now you're really going to see the difference of here's the athlete and he's kind of pushing now again this athlete was converting from the glide and you can see that he's doing a very nice job but you'll notice how he's lost contact you'll notice Joe really punches the hip through and where the arms going to be striking through the shot and you're going to see generally the chest and the hip coming through a little bit more on the elite and there's where you're coming through and you see that big follow through there right so the point is as we kind of go through and we go back what can we see when we're looking at full speed and what are we going to know to work on so we obviously would slow it down everybody has a camera and can do that and you can see now you can see a little bit more and you can do some comparison but then when we start to look at things pillar to pillar now we can really start to dissect a throw and learn to see our technique better and see how actually the difference between a young thrower who's been focusing for a week on learning the rotational throw from the glide is doing an exceptional job and how it's just going to take time strength development technical development but you see the difference between the basically a second and a half from the time the shop puts back to the time it leaves the hand to roughly just under two seconds for the young thrower and the point of these videos is to show that the path that the throwers on is actually very good it just takes time and energy to develop the pattern and train the motor pattern so the body is going to be able to do it efficiently that's the trick so again hopefully you enjoyed today's kind of comparison to kind of just see when you see the what they what the master's doing versus what the students doing and seeing that they're on the right path it just takes time and that's what you guys want to keep in mind so you stay motivated and remember it's the fastest way to faster results is is focusing on the right things and that's how you're going to get the big jumps so hopefully you enjoyed today's video be sure to hit a thumbs up have any comments below if anybody you'd like to see a comparison of let us know and we will see you on the next