 The Glide. We want speed in our glide and we want a fast kick leg and we want to be cranking across that ring because that's how you throw a fart. So how do we accelerate the kick leg in the glide? Find out in this video. Check it out. Everybody it's Eric Johnson and in today's YouTube video what we're going to answer is a question from one of our YouTube subscribers and they're asking about how do we accelerate the kick leg in the glide. Great question and in this video we're going to go through that. One of the key things or one of the big mistakes we see with gliders is just this and they're trying to kick the leg and you're going to notice that's pulling me off of my drive leg but listen to what I just called that it's the drive leg. So in the throwing chain reaction system again we still have six pillars of the glide very linear throw and our setup is really vital. A pillar one two and three are absolutely your crunch pillars this helps set up the rest of the glide. Now that being said pillar four is our driving click and pillar three is where we're initiating the kick leg. So one of the key things we're going to talk about is how do we accelerate that kick leg. So one of the things we're going to do is when we pull up we're going to be able to load the drive leg and when we create more drive off of this you're going to create the double extension in our system again how we coach the glide we call that pillar four drive and kick. Drive and kick right am I making that point so it's your drive leg if you're right handed towards drive kick and so if I'm throwing in this direction and you see how I'm setting up and I'll do a tall start style to show the position we're going to be here and you're going to notice how I'm up on the toe notice the position of the kick leg and as I go I'm going to be able to get that really dynamic glide. So when I create that nice big drive I'm going to create that nice big kick and it becomes very reflexive when we call that double extension. So our pillar four and this is where when we're working on drills and we're feeling kind of our a-frame drills are classic glide drill we're going to be driving we're going to drive off the toe finish off the heel and we're going to create that nice double extension and notice the line in my body and if I'm in the right position here where everything's lined this way I can pull and I'm going to be able to drive into the throw. So how do we accelerate well one of the things again we advocate is we talk about our pillar three and that's of course predicated on the fact that we've set up one and two correctly but pillar three is where the kick leg begins to shift into the throw and then we're going to be dropping the chest sliding out the kick leg and then pillar four driving kick. So it's a it's basically like if you will the kick leg is almost like a rolling start and I think one of the good examples or a really good example of this is David Storrell you're going to notice Storrell as he comes up he comes over and when he pulls the kick leg in he's rising up on the ball of the right foot the kick leg never pulls fully in this is one of the big mistakes how do you make your kick leg faster well it's really simple if I don't have to move it as far it's going to go faster right if we race in the 100 meters and I started 80 meters and you start at 100 I have a 20 meter head start I'm automatically going to run a generally faster time because I'm running less distance assuming we're generally the same speed the same principle goes with your kick leg if I pull and so one of the big mistakes is you see young throwers pulling their knee all the way up here that being said look at somebody like Valerie Adams so she has the kick leg come way up and so here kick leg is up here but she's loaded up again so as she drops then you're going to see that kick leg sliding out and the huge monster drive off the right foot how do we know that throwers are driving off the right foot because as they go and they kick you see that delivery off the heel now how does that relate again to beating up the kick leg driving hard off the right or your drive leg so some simple drill called a driving a frame and so you're going to notice when you consciously start to think here you're going to immediately start to increase that kick leg so if I'm thinking drive here you're going to notice how that's going to slide out so looking at somebody like Michelle Carter is the same thing when you watch her pull in and you see the knee pull in you tend not to see the knee pulling all the way up it's partially out so as she drops the chest the kick leg and the angle are there so she can get the big drive and the faster kick looking back and the vintage area of glides 70s 80s noticing those guys they had monster monster right glide leg but they also had monster delivery legs so that's the drive and then the delivery and so you would see the same thing the way they would come into the throw and they're dropping low and it's about setting up the proper glide angle so if you have a slow kick leg chances are one of the things you're doing is you're popping up and you're going to notice when I do that so if I do a glide and I come here and I pop up I'm not going to get a very dynamic kick leg so the best answer for that and understanding how do we create speed it's about setting up the right sequence the right chain reaction that's going to create the right angle into your glide and when you understand that it's two fold don't pull the kick leg up so much when you do pull in that's what we call loading coil pillar two you're going to be loading up on the drive leg and you're going to be pulling that kick leg in so you have this leg loaded up this leg here so it immediately leads to that type of motion in your glide and that's how you start to create a more dynamic kick leg and more dynamic glide drive and that's how you're going to start smashing big throws in your glide so hopefully you found that video helpful if you would like to see some questions answered or some videos created based on your questions be sure to throw that in the comments below if you like this video do us a favor hit that thumbs up give us a hit the subscribe share this video and we will see you on the next video be sure to check out our next videos be sure to subscribe visit our website for free videos click the links below we have links to our free mini course check out our websites for camps and different detailed information throw farther faster by understanding the science with the throwing chain reaction system thanks so much for watching