 Lockdowns, quarantine, it all sucks. But what we want to do is get better, come out stronger. In this video, we're going to talk about false tension or false separation, how to identify it, how to fix it, so check it out. Hey everybody, it's Eric Johnson from Airtate Throws Nation. In today's video, we're going to talk about a simple thing that's causing you a lot of problems and if you fix it really quick, you're going to throw further today. Again, it's quarantine time and we've been in lockdown. This thing sucks. We've gotten our season ripped away. We've had the Olympics postponed. It's a very disappointing thing, but one of the things you're going to notice is that the strong survive and those that are going to be resourceful, improvised, try to stay in shape, continue to learn and develop their technique are the ones that are going to get ahead. So again, what we thought we would try to do is really kind of share some of the things that we found have really quick results and we want to help you guys out there to understand these things. Now, this is kind of a critical thing. Now we've seen this at the beginner level and we've seen this with some more advanced throwers and they're all kind of making a similar mistake. Now, what is that? One of the things we're going to do is we want to help you understand how to create the right tension or avoid what we refer to as false separation. Today's video will include the use of one of our drill bands. Now again, we started using drill bands last year really heavily because it starts to give you a ton more feedback and that is really key. Good positions have a feeling. Bad positions have a feeling. And if you want to learn more about our system and our bands, click the links below. So today what we're going to talk about is a common mistake and when we use the band, again, we're going to create stretch because we want to create length and we want to learn how to move along. And the bands are really good for that. One of the things I think again, for years we've used PVC, I think that's one of the things that has been used for a long time, you know, wooden dowels and PVC poles and those things have a place and I think they have a value. However, what the thing that we like about, especially when we're dealing with the discus is the band is going to be able to give you the double separation where that means when we get here. Now this is why I think the discus gets harder than the shot. So one of the things that we're doing is as we set up and we stretch, we see athletes doing this. So you're going to notice how that band technically is off my back. There's no separation here. Now I have tension and I have tension through my core but what a lot of kids are doing is they're doing this and they're feeling tension here across the chest but that's not where the tension comes. The tension is going to come from moving this here and creating stretch this way and feeling stretch on the chest here, not by trying to keep stretch on the chest by reaching back. So one of the things the band helps us do is see we have a lot of athletes doing this. So coaches and throwers, go look at your video and see, do you see a lot of your athletes doing this type of wine where they reach? And you're going to notice when I show you that and I wind and I reach, you'll notice that the band comes off my back. Now if I had a PVC pipe, I can't really see that but with the band I can see, well do I have some separation here but I don't technically have the shoulders rotated around the lower body so if I'm doing this and I turn, the band is actually across the entry side shoulder. You're going to see how I have tension here even if I shift over here. Here I'm going to be able to stay long and you're going to see me being able to come this way but when I finish here and I start this way, you're going to see how I'm actually leading with the chest and the chest, the separation that we're going to be trying to regain which is in the middle of the throw, we're going to see this, we're going to be opening and we're going to typically open up too much, shift off early off the delivery leg and you're going to lose distance. If you're a beginning thrower, your coach, the simple thing that we want you to understand in this drill is where do we create tension? We want to turn the shoulders and we want to turn the arm and the shoulder and we want to feel the tension through here, through the trunk and that's what's going to do is create stretch reflex and that's something again, we talk about in a lot more depth inside our throwing chain reaction program but for the idea here is we want to create that stretch movement so that we're going to be able to come back through here into the throw and that is going to be key. Find out if you're fall separating. Comment below. We want to know if you're doing that. Look at your film. Is that something you've been aware of and are you feeling tension up through the chest when you're supposed to just feel the tension here? Do you feel something? Yes, you'll feel the shoulder when you get the discus back but when you feel tension through the chest at the back of the circle, that's an incorrect false tension and if you're learning to move or you're doing movement like that rep after rep, you're not going to feel the correct positions, you're not going to move in the right positions and progress is going to be slow. If you learn to feel how to feel separation and the right tension through the trunk, you're going to be moving into the throw much more dynamically and you're going to be able to generate the right type of tension and you're going to feel that tension through here and up through here as we go through the finish. So hopefully that is helpful. We want to hear back from you guys. Hit that like button for us, subscribe, be sure to check out the throwing chain reaction system and we will see you on the next video.