 The Glide Shot is a super linear animal that'll eat you alive. We found five common mistakes that we're seeing at all levels, all across the board. And we're going to talk about it in this video, so check it out. Hey everybody, it's Eric Johnson from Airtate Throws Nation, and in this video, what we're going to talk about are the top five glide killing mistakes that we saw over and over again in 2019. So we're going to go from reverse, we'll go from five to number one. Number five is rotating through the finish. The glide is a linear beast, and you need to be able to open, pull this down, and you see this, and this is again why you see gliders finishing kind of like that, and they don't rotate out. So many young gliders will see kind of rotating with a high elbow, trying to come down, and they're finishing like this, so you see that there's this motion. So if you're seeing yourself, or if you're a coach, and you see your athletes kind of coming out of the glide, or they're coming out like this, and then trying to come down, that pull away is going to prevent that, and that's also going to lead to challenging reversing. So if you're seeing that rotational style finish, it's definitely worthwhile playing with the rotational shot. Check out our free mini course down below, and if you're interested, jump into the program, and we go through how to solve these problems step by step. Number four that was the most common thing is landing in the power position with the hips back, and so that's going to have to do with other things that are setting up inside of your chain reaction, your sequence, your actions that set up the reaction of the power position. And so what we're seeing is when the throwers come out of their glide, and they're pulling, their hips are back here. So they're landing in this position, and then what you're getting is they can't get the hips into the throw. And again, another contributor of what you're seeing, and why you see gliders having such a hard time hitting their reverse, or can't reverse, is because their hips are back here, and their hips need to be here so that they can punch again into the shot. So when they come out, and you're kicking across, and they're landing back here, so that's heel down and hips back, that was one of the most common things we see. So teaching the athlete how to get the hip underneath the shoulder was a really important variable. So the number three thing that we saw most often was the kick leg path. And what we would see is as people set up, they were pulling in, and they would pull it up too far, and then kick it too high. And so what would happen is as they would come down and they kick, you're getting kind of a hop up, and the kick legs kind of doing this, and it's leading to this, which is also going to be one of those contributors to landing with those hips back. And then you're seeing athletes, and then they're kind of cartwheeling into the finish. But the kick leg path, when they're pulling it in, it shouldn't be pulled up too far, and it should be kicking kind of straight out to the board is what we teach. We don't want it to kind of go like this. We want it to go boom into the board, which is going to help pull the delivery leg into the right position as well. So the path of the kick leg is super important, and one of the quick fixes is avoiding pulling it up too far, or avoid, you know, this type of thing. This leads to this number two on our list of five most common killers is being kick leg dominant and not using the drive leg. So one of the common things we've seen with our athletes is we'll see athletes pulling in, and they're just trying to be kick. And so then they kind of roll off. What the sequence is, is what we teach. This is our pillar two, three in the glide. We would load this leg, have this kick leg in the right path, drive and extend. Drive and kick. And this is what gives you your classic A-frame in the glide. Double extension. We call it triple extension because we want to stay back and separate it. And so we're going to wind up in that position. So you've got to remember that the glide is initiated with the drive leg, and that's this leg. So it's here. So you push, and you extend, and you feel this position into your glide. And the number one mistake that we saw year in, year out, not just 2019, at every single track meet in the country, at any given level, you will see the following. It is an improper setup, which again is the wrong chain reaction. The key is to set up everything on balance is that pillar one. And so the biggest mistake we see is instead of seeing athletes get themselves aligned, creating separation and setting up their path of the glide and getting over and getting the shot put outside the circle, the thing that we're seeing is that so many kids will stand up, stand square, and bend over. And now the shot put is basically on top of the ring. The things are here. So when they put their leg and they pull in, they're already kind of falling. And then they wind up getting into this position, which they go too high. You're going to notice I can't really pull my kick leg under me. I can, if I'm in the right position and I'm here, I can pull the kick leg into the power position. And that's all due to the alignment and that simple fix of not bending here and understanding how we set up and we initiate and create a hinge and a load so we can get our drive, drop, go. So again, in our system, setting up separation and setting up the trigger, loading and coiling, dropping and sliding, driving kick, dropping and getting our power. Those are the things. So again, if you'd like to learn more about how to throw the glide and how to avoid a lot of these mistakes, and if you're looking at this video, you've probably seen a lot of these mistakes yourself or maybe you're doing them. And that's what we're trying to get you to understand. You don't want to be doing these things. Grab a free mini course. And if you really want to dive deep, go in, become a member and we go through this step by step on how to solve all of these problems. The throws are very technically complex, but again, when you understand what you need to do, it's so much easier to train. It becomes very simple. And then the process is learning to train your body to do it right. And if you're focusing on the right things every single day, you get better that much faster. Hey, thanks so much for watching. Hopefully you enjoyed this video. Be sure to give that subscribe button a little punch. Turn on the notifications. Have any comments. Be sure to list them below. Thanks so much for watching and we will see you on the next video. So item number five, the thing that we saw the most common is that when people start to rotate and learn the shot, they wind the shot.