 What's up guys, it's Eric Johnson from Airtate Throws Nation. In today's video, we are gonna look at how we went nine weeks and 31 feet PR, so let's check it out. Okay guys, so one of the first things we're gonna do is we're gonna jump up. This is one of my athletes, he's a junior athlete and it's kind of always good to kind of look at some of the things we're doing and look at the movement, a little choppy and a little stiff and so you're gonna notice like this was him coming out from last year. He had a really good sophomore year, he had thrown about 134 feet, he had just done that one time, most of the time he had a couple of meets in the low 130s and a lot of meets in the 120s. So you're just gonna kind of notice the progression from week one to two and just things start moving along. Now you'll notice that very quickly we started teaching him how to reverse. So we changed his start, we changed teaching him how to move through the throw and through the finish and now you're gonna see as the season progresses that we had some climbs, we had some dips and then you can see by the end there's a pretty significant difference between what we did. So now let's break it down. Let's look at that first week and look at look we did at nine weeks and when you think about this this is very real relatively short period of time. Now what's important to realize is that the ninth week was as we were moving you know kind of more mid-season, right? He had at this time already hit some really nice early season PRs and he had already jumped up. He opened the season with like a 20-foot PR. He went to let me see, I think his first meet was 153, so we were just under like 20 feet and then he continued to kind of tick up and went to 165 and had multiple throws and had really good consistency in the 160s. So let's take a look. One of the first things you're gonna notice in what we try to let people understand that the start is key. We just recently did an interview with Olympic silver medalist Seymon Peterson in the men's discus and he said even in his interview the start is everything. He works on the start constantly and this is the key thing that we work on inside the throwing chain reaction. We want to be working that start. So pillar one we set up and notice the difference in the changes. What we did is what he was doing on the video on the left is he was doing what we call as a wind up one but that's kind of a drill start to teach some basic fundamentals about how to stay center and create separation and therefore lead with the lower body into the throw. So now you're gonna notice here over here on the right what we did is we kind of changed that orbit. We've got setting up the axis here a little bit more bigger range of motion and so now the athlete is moving much better. So now what he's doing is he's moving longer in the throw really important. So now you're gonna see how we're setting up this longer position. Here you know you can see him kind of leading with the chest and he's pushing the knee too far. Here he's still pushing the knee but you're gonna notice he's got his hips over and one thing he does well and this is why we did the wind up one start over here on the left. Initially to teach things is because it teaches the athlete how to keep this hip more underneath the shoulder and so you'll notice that. Now you're gonna notice as he comes here this is pillar two what we call setting up maximum power and now this is gonna change how he's going to be able to get that sweep. You see how the sweep kind of comes down and look at his foot here and look at his foot over here. It's still down a little bit and that's something we're gonna work on but you're gonna notice the path is wider. He's a lot more level and notice the position of the discus. This is a big change. He's gonna be able to drag and keep that discus back so it can rise to a better high point. So you're gonna notice that was definitely one of the big changes. The start, we improve the sweep, right, but that beginning pillar, that pillar one, that whole setup is what's dictating all of these better changes. So now as he goes, you're gonna see, look at the difference. Look at how he would drop the high point. He's a little clunky again. He's a little rusty and now look at how he's getting that discus to rise up into the high point. So it's still something we're gonna work on more, okay, but he's getting a nice position. So when you see him here, look at that discus. It's nice and stretched. Look at the angle change. So this is what we would call an inverted orbit. You've seen that some of our Instagram videos and other videos we posted on YouTube and here we're kinda seeing this. A little bit of the fold here at the left arm, which we wanna see this staying longer at the elbow from the shoulder, but this makes a huge difference and now you see the difference as he goes into the power position. Look at this, this is what we call the power position T. We wanna see this position here and this is what's gonna help. Now there's still some alignment things, a lot of improvement to make. He's got a little bit of a narrow base and again, these are the things where I think with muscle mass, better technical improvements, I think this kid's gonna go another 30 foot PR next year which is gonna put him in the 190s and that's gonna be pretty exciting. Really quick, talented kid. And so now when we sit here and we go into the, this is our pillar five, but you can see in his non-reverse he was pulling back, here he's not pulling back but the block arm is out of position and he's off the ground. We need to get him on the ground and coming around and that's gonna be another big jump. So remember, keep this foot on the ground but again, nice improvements, good consistency, consistently up over the previous year by almost 30 feet average was close to that, almost 30 feet. So hopefully the thing is if you wanna improve one, you wanna understand that you have to break the throw down. Here we just kinda showed you a breakdown of the six pillars looking at different key positions. We improved the start, we're working on the sweep. Where we changed the high point of the discus which changed from the hand carry. So we talk about that all the time that you need to basically understand how important it is to hold the discus right. We've done videos on that and that makes a huge difference. So you're just gonna notice that those are some of those big changes and so if you're looking to improve your throw there's very easy ways to do so. You simplify movement, you have to understand the throw happens fast and it's unnatural. That's what we teach with our throwing chain reaction system. So do us a favor, do all that YouTube stuff, hit the like, subscribe, turn on notifications and be sure to check the links in the description and we will see you guys on the next video. Take care. Bye.