 Hey everybody, it's Eric Johnson from Airtel Atheroization and in today's video, we're gonna talk about drills. We're gonna talk about drills that produce results and this is an excerpt from one of our recent online free webinars and we talked about not just the role of drills but the structure and then we talked about four main objectives and we're gonna talk about it in this video and these objectives are what make you throw really far. So hopefully you enjoy, check it out. You know, we had a kid who was throwing 80 feet in the discus in December and he threw 170 feet by April. His PR coming into that. So basically the role of drills, right, is drills ideally teach the right pattern to new throwers. They correct bad patterns. They make unnatural patterns more natural because what we talk about is that two seconds, there's nothing really natural about throwing the shot putter at the discus and then obviously the thing about drills is we wanna accelerate learning and improve faster, right? So the biggest reason for that is reps. This kid was a perfect example. This was a thrower and he'd been throwing about two weeks. So it's not a real pretty throw but you could see by doing a bunch of drills, going through the six pillars, teaching in the system, this is how this kid was moving in about 10 days. Here's another athlete. This was her first week doing the full, she'd been throwing one full week as a rotational thrower and we started out teaching kind of how we're gonna break everything down today. So again, good movement, especially for a kid that's been doing it for two weeks, a week and a half and it would just get a lot better. So that's what we look at the role of drills. So here's how we're gonna try to break it down. We talk about our system. We're gonna talk about six pillars. You're gonna see that drills are really, we focus on teaching positions, right? So every pillar has a location, objective and position. So you're gonna understand where you are in the ring. What are you trying to do at that point in the throw and the positions that are associated with it? That's what the pillars are all about and that's what we kind of put on our social media and different things out there. So pillar connection is drill, sequential positions, right? So that's pillar one, two, two, three, one, two, three, four, five, three, four, five, six, that kind of thing. That's pillar connection. So we have drills where we're just doing movements and then we call what we have as our TCR drills which are throws, so kinematics. This is where we're dealing with the rhythm and the timing and everything else and that's a really important way and how we look at it. So we do all of these pretty much at most of our coaching sessions. Here's what you're gonna look at. So we wanna look at drills in this way. Drills are of course, like I said earlier, not a new concept but how you use the drill is what matters and how you see the role of the drill is key. So in the throwing chain reaction, it serves as a major function, right? Motor pattern development, that's what we're trying to do. So like here's a perfect example and you'll see how we utilize the drills because we're trying to create more of that functional pattern. So drills are not a new concept but the function that we're trying to, how we're trying to move and how we're trying to feel the throw is what matters. So adding feels is what I taught. Motor patterns and feels, we wanna look at drills to develop more than positions. So really we start thinking about not just positions but we wanna understand that there's kind of four core things that we do with drills. We have to create tension, we have to understand balance and then we can create speed, we basically create power. So the bands basically, and this is how we're showing you pillar one, pillar four, five, that's where we're creating more tension. Balance is pretty much throughout most of the throw. Certain things you can be off balance, surprisingly just the beginning of throw. There's simple concepts but getting your body to do the simple concept, that's the challenge and that's where you see all different varying levels. And I've seen kids, we had a kid who was throwing 80 feet in the discus in December and he threw 170 feet by April. His PR coming into that season was 101 feet, he threw 171 feet. Everybody has a different timeline. Finally clicked, he was strong, quick and he looked really awful in the beginning and that's the major thing. Feeling the throw is really, really critical. So of course, when we look at drills, we look at the start and again, we look at that as pillar one, two, the entry, which is pillar two, three, the orbit, which is gonna be, whether even it's a linear line like the glide, you're gonna have a path of that shot from one to six. It's gonna be super important how you're holding it. Discus is gonna be the same thing, how you're holding it, where it is in the radius and that sort of thing. The sweep again, we're just gonna start to look at pillar two, three, four. These are the things how you would normally look at it, but that's what we said. We want to help people start realizing we have to feel balanced, we have to feel tension, we have to understand that once we're on balance and we create the right tension, then you can create more speed and then when you're doing those three, the power is going to naturally come. That's the whole idea behind what we're constantly teaching our coaches and our athletes, it's a chain reaction. That's the science. So these would be the context that you're more familiar with, but we're gonna look at it okay. So when we're at a high point, we're creating tension. We're trying to accelerate. So we're trying to create speed. We have to be on balance to have the right high point. If your high point's low, you're gonna be off balance, all those sorts of things. So delivery in the block, again, that's gonna be critical to creating power and that's where we talk about power position is really we break it into pillar five, six and we're showing specific movement things there.