 Hey everybody, it's Eric Johnson from Airtay Throws Nation, and in today's video what we're gonna talk about is what happens when you have a bad sweep and how does that sometimes and most often kill your delivery and cost you a crap ton of distance. We're gonna talk about it in this video, here we go. One of the things we talk about today's video is gonna be what is killing your throw and then lack of a sweep and why is it bad and we're gonna go through that here in a second. So what I'm gonna do today is I'm gonna show you if I'm throwing in this direction and I set up. I've done a video in the past where we talked about why we want the wide sweep and you're gonna notice when I go wide sweep and how I let it on and how that's going to help me accelerate, notice how I'm loaded up. If you've looked at our drill down video or you've looked at our pivot versus push video you're gonna notice all of a sudden I'm in this position where I'm gonna be able to accelerate the hip into the throw and I'm gonna be able to follow through if I'm a reversing thrower, I'm gonna get that really nice speed all the way through the block leg or if I'm a non-reversing thrower, boom, I'm still gonna be able to accelerate the delivery side out and around and into the throw. So one of the things we wanna talk about is if we have the narrow sweep, what's that gonna do? It's gonna cause the back in and when you back into the throw you're settling down onto the delivery leg. So let me show you. So one time when we get athletes and they do this, now the foot does this. Do you see how my feet just moved? So watch again, this is the back in, right? See the back in? We need to have both hips turning and accelerating into the throw. So the wide sweep helps usually move both hips if I come out of the back and I have a narrow sweep I'm gonna get that type of movement. You'll see a lot of kids at me, they're going through and they're doing their best to try to practice what they're doing. You can see their movement is wrong and the more often you practice incorrect movement that's what you're gonna do. You're not gonna practice something incorrect and do something that's optimal. It's just not gonna happen. You have to learn to move optimally so that you can throw optimally. So when we talk about why we want the wide sweep and how that sets up the delivery and the lower body so that we can get this type of position and come through that's why we want that knee open so that we create a big rotational path. You can see again there I can easily rotate. If you look at again some of our top throwers Jason Harrell happens to be top 25 in the world in the men's discus, 214 foot, 10 inch PR. He has a bit of a narrow sweep but he has a good sweeping motion. He has a different right leg. It's a little low. It's not as dynamic as we like but due to his style, that's a challenge we've had and so we work through it. So the point is you don't have to look like Frederick Dockers or Robert Harding with an amazing sweep leg but you can take a look at somebody like Andreas Guzdias. Again, super big dynamic guy but he has a narrow sweep and you're gonna notice that and then you would look at somebody like Anthony Washington who also had a more narrow sweep but he had a very different start style. He's very controlled and very dynamic and he was an incredible thrower. So the point is there's gonna be multiple ways for you to be able to work that sweep but the common ingredient is when we hit the middle they can't let, you can't back into the middle. You have to be sweeping around and pulling yourself in so you're gonna notice how I'm more on top of it and that's what's gonna enable me to throw far. When you see throwers that are doing this drop in the heel and they're hitting here, they're center masses in front now it's very difficult to get the hips in front. So the biggest point and the big key as I'm saying in the longest way possible is don't back into the throw. Maintain the wide sweep position so that you can come around and pull the hips and create that rotation versus coming around and backing in and you're gonna see how that's gonna shift me and that's gonna lower my heel and now I'm not gonna be able to do it. My discus is gonna catch up. Any hesitation with that lower body typically means the discus catches up to the hip and unless you're just the freakiest and most dynamic athlete, most athletes are not gonna come out of that and even those freaky dynamic athletes are doing this position extremely well which makes them the best in the world. Remember, don't back into the throw, keep the sweep leg wide and don't let that heel drop. When you do, when you back in, the heel drops, you're settling on top of that leg and it's an absolute distance killer so don't let that happen to you. Get that heel up, prevent it from dropping to the ground, keep it moving and you'll be amazed you should pick up 10 feet super fast and your discus maybe even more. So thank you so much for watching. If you found this video helpful, be sure to give us a thumbs up, hit that subscribe button and we will see you on the next video. 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