 Hey everyone, it's Eric Johnson from Airtay Throws Nation and in this quick tip what we're going to discuss are common issues that cause foot files or coming out of the front of the circle especially with non or sorry with reversing throwers. So whether it's the rotational shot the disc is or even the glide one we're going to avoid looking at the throw. So in this picture what we're going to do or in this video we're going to look through a series of throwers and we're going to pay attention to the two things that they don't do. One, good throwers you don't want to look at the throw until you fully regain control of your recovery and the second thing you want to do is understand that the path of the block leg after you've come through the reverse has to elevate typically so it's going to be a combination depending on the throw or the style is going to be a little different but it's very very similar pretty much across the board. Here to elevate that block leg will make your center mass oftentimes continue to move forward the lifting and elevation will keep you in the ring. So if we look here at Malachowski we'll look at him really chase it you'd notice how his head's away and at this point here's what we're looking at the elevation of the left leg coming up and you're going to notice that knee is actually above the hip. When he does this you notice that's going to pull him to the ball of the foot and that's going to help pull him back into the circle. So when you kind of roll up and this leg extends that helps kind of pull you back in you notice he's here and now he'll look at the throw because he's fully has control of the throw. So if we look now and we look at the top angle this is a great shot to be able to see exactly what I'm talking about. So you're going to see one he's not he's not going to be coming around looking but look at that elevation so when you looked at the throw from a level standpoint you could see that the knee was elevated but you didn't realize that the leg is extended away this much so it's elevated up and extended out and you notice that it's pulling his heel is back over the center of the ring that's pulling him back into the ring so now he's up on the ball now he can kind of pull everything around and now that he's got control now he'll look at the throw but what a lot of young throwers are doing is right now their heads flipping around as they're trying to regain control and if you look at the throw at this point you're going to notice his eyes it's a little tough to see but he's looking down he's not trying to look he comes around he knows he has control and now he's going to look at his throw alright so that's a real simple tip is for elevating that leg we'll look at a couple other throwers so you can kind of see some examples and you'll see how young throwers tend not to get this nice big extension and elevation which is going to help you stay in the circle so let's take a peek at Turner Washington Turner Washington is the national leader this year in high school dad was a three-time Olympian and 99 world champion one of the greatest throwers ever and here watch him hit the throw and watch the path of the left now his style is a little different very efficient but you see that elevation up so again that's you can see pulling him back into the circle up onto the toe he regains control you see him here not trying to look at the throw now look at him he's still not looking at the throw not looking at the throw and now he's getting regain control so now he's gonna watch where his discus is big problem you see with a lot of young throwers is right here they go oh that felt good and they're looking at the throw and while you're trying to regain control you're gonna get that momentum is gonna help you is the most likely gonna take over and it's gonna pull you out of the circle so you those are your two primary things that you want to be most concerned with so here's an example of one of our online members and athletes who's come to train with me multiple times and there's some other things going on here when we start looking at our throwing chain reaction he's setting up some good positions the left arm path starts to interfere with his ability to rotate as efficiently into the center so it's gonna create a little bit of shift but one of the things is we always want to keep those shoulders level but as he starts to reverse okay kind of pulled away a little too much and as he's watch them start to look right there he's not fully in control and watch the height of the block leg notice that knee isn't really getting above his hip if that knee elevates up to the hip height that's gonna keep him here and now he starts to look and that's gonna pull him forward you see that extra little step forward and that's a combination of his head looking and the knee here not high enough if that knees high enough it keeps him rotating around instead of kind of jumping forward so if you're practicing this practicing in training to be conscious of that path and so that you counterbalance through the delivery you're gonna be a little more comfortable when it comes me time you're and it's gonna become a habit that's actually pretty easy to do and so if you if you're again if you're focused on it you're most likely gonna help yourself present prevent those extra little bit of fouls and a lot of my young athletes I have to cue him not to look at the throw right there looking at the throw so watch him step forward right and he should be fully regaining control before he's looking at it and that makes a huge difference for you so here's a look at one more high school thrower this is again from another one of our online member coaches in Southern California and watch this athlete he does some really nice stuff he comes through the throw he's here he's got pretty good control now watch but watch the path of the left leg it's good and it's good extension but if he lifts it even a little higher that's gonna keep him he's got to keep it up a little longer and that would help keep him into the ring so he lifts and then it starts to come down too early if that stays up through that point he'd stay on the toe and now pull him back into the circle so let's take a look at what it looks like in the rotational shot here's Ryan Krauser hitting his Olympic record throw now watch how high that the knee is is at the hip height and the foot is fully extended back that's gonna look at how high it comes up it keeps coming up so as he reverses in you can see how he very comfortably has regained control it's tilted his body back into the ring and he holds the ring position no problem so now if we take a peek at a glider let's look at Valerie Adams one of the greatest female shop putters in world history if not maybe the greatest again different finish style for gliders right it's not nearly as rotational it's very linear but what you're gonna notice is that elevation and kind of bend at this point that again is forcing the thrower up more on to the toe keeping the center of mass kind of moving back in you're gonna see a little bit different style for a glider especially with Valerie Adams but you can see exactly that elevation of the block leg as they come through is helping pull the athlete back into and finally what we'll look at is David Storal watch the very linear look at again how high so you're gonna see a lot of times that kind of this elevated block leg is gonna tilt that body again glider still very elevated you see the high knee pulling it in that's pulling his body back in so he's chasing and as you lift that block leg that's gonna help you stay in the circle so point is as you looked at handful of discus stores even rotational shop putter and looking at the glide again that elevation it's a simple thing of course there are many variables that go into throwing farther and we talk and we teach the throwing chain reaction and everything is predicated on those first pillars what you're setting up how you're going to enter into the middle of the ring is gonna make a huge difference whether or not you foul but one of the core attributes is a lot of athletes I've seen at this point are sending out videos and they're very close and the two the two main details to really think about are don't look at the throw until you've regain control and elevate that block leg to help pull you back into the circle those are two simple things that a lot of a lot of young throwers are missing that can really just help you resolve a lot of those tiki-tack you know foot stepping on the the ring type issues or just slowly slightly having to step out of the circle so hopefully these tips help and be sure to subscribe and thanks for watching