 The glide. Okay, let's face it, bottom line, it's easier than the rotational shot. However, huge, however, it's not easier to do. And so many young throwers out there are making this single mistake. No more! And it's just absolutely crushing their glide. Are you making a mistake? Check it out in this video. Hey, everybody, it's Eric Johnson for Maritime Throwing Nation. And in today's quick fix YouTube video, what we're gonna talk about is how to get your glide on track super fast. Now, there's a couple of things that I wanna address I see this most common. The glide is less technically advanced or less technically complicated than the rotational throws. However, even though it's simpler, that means there's less room for forgiveness and it's very difficult to execute at a high level. So, one of the things we wanna focus on in the glide is what I see with most beginners and even at all levels is that they're too bent over and they don't understand glide alignment. So if I'm throwing in this direction, one of the key things that we're gonna do is we can start taller, we can stay down. And you're gonna notice when I stay down and I pull in, you're gonna see what's the core thing that most gliders make the mistake of? They don't have the alignment of the drive side hip. Now, again, in the throwing chain reaction, we talk about how critical it is to set up our pillar one, our pillar two, and our pillar three. And we teach more of a dynamic rhythmical glide style. However, that being said, we always talk about the three start styles of the glide and you wanna choose the one that's gonna work the best for you. All three are basically achieving the same objective. Now, the point of today's video is to get kids out of doing, stopping this. The bend over and the hip back. And so as soon as they pull in, they're falling back. Now, a super athletic, big, strong, fast athlete could maybe react out of that position and utilize their weight, but the majority of young throwers don't have the strength or the speed or the ability to come out of that. And so what we wanna see is when we get out of this and we get the glide lined up, so you see everything coming up onto the toe so you can see this drive into the throw. So whether you notice that it's Valerie Adams or it's Thomas Michewski, right? He had a very simple style. So you would see how he would start way loaded over and he would pull that kick leg up. And so as he pulls that kick laid up, he's loading the toe of the drive leg so that he could drive, drop. That's our pillar three. Extend the kick leg, pushing off the toe, and then finishing that big punch off the heel to create that nice glide line down into the toe board. So one of the big mistakes that we wanna help our young gliders do is that for the most part, starting where your back here is bad and so one of the key things is bending over too much or starting like this and pulling in so that as soon as you pull in, you begin to fall into the throw. That's not the same as what is traditionally called unseating in the throw. Unseating is when you're consciously beginning to move the hips back into the throw. But what you see is when you don't see this proper alignment from this path, so that as it comes down that we can create our drive and our kick and then pull into the power position. What we have is when we're too bent over and the alignment's off, everything's already done. The glide line's off. This is why you tend to see the hop. So one of the things we wanna do is let our throwers know. Stop bending at the waist so much and then getting kind of this position so as soon as they pull in, they're falling and what you see are young throwers, thrower after thrower, they're sitting up. When you do this and you pull in and you're falling, you notice how I'm standing up. Now I stand up too much. I can't get the drive foot under me in the middle of the circle. So the simple fix here is stop bending over so much. Don't break at the waist. Try to stay a little taller and stay up on the ball of the foot and you'll notice that if you stay on the ball of the foot, that's automatically gonna create some correction in your glide. Now this is super simple approach but the key is when that foot, when I bent over, this is gonna lead to a flat foot and then some kids kick up and then when they pull in, again, you can see me starting to fall. So if I'm falling, my reaction's gonna be to come up. I'm not gonna be able to pull the delivery leg under me and then you see kids kind of coming in this position and that's when you see the cartwheel finish because all a thrower can do is that's about the best they can get out of their glide. So, simple tip for today. Don't bend over so much. Maintain your line. That's our pillar one. We wanna maintain that setup and that start of the chain reaction. If that's clean, the rest of your glides can be super quick fix for you. And again, one last tip. Don't try bending over so much. Try staying even a little taller and staying on the ball of the foot. So when you kick up and you pull in, you'll be here and you'll be able to pull the delivery leg under you. The taller position, there's plenty of guys in history who have had taller glides and thrown very, very far and the bigger and stronger, more dynamic you get, the more dynamic your glide can get as well. 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