 We're going to talk about how to throw the discus and we're going to go step by step, but you got to learn this first. Check it out. Everybody it's Eric Johnson. And in today's video, we are going to be setting up for a four part training series on how to throw the discus step by step. Now, one of the things we always talk about is the discus happens extremely fast. And one of the challenges that we talked about in our recent video was you got to see the throw, you got to understand the throw. And then you have to be able to identify what makes it difficult. So that's going to be, can you see it? Do you actually understand it? Did you learn it right? Do you have strength problems and what combination of those things are limiting your ability to throw? Right now I'm going to take you through a quick clip on one of our terminology videos. As we go into this four part series today being part one next video, being part two, setting up the chain reaction and setting up maximum power in your throw. So it's going to be really important to understand our core terminology in learning and throw. So if this is your first time here, be sure to hit that subscribe button, check out the long list of videos that we've designed for coaches and throwers to help you understand and learn a little bit more about the throwing chain reaction system or six pillar system for being able to see, understand and learn the throw for fast improvement and big throws. Let's check out the terminology. First thing that we like to talk about is we're going to be communicating direction. 12 o'clock is the beginning of the throw. Six o'clock is directly the dead center of the sector. Therefore this is three o'clock and this is nine o'clock. So the clock is going to be real simple. So when you hear me refer to 12, six, nine, three, eight, whatever, that's the clock we're referring to. Simply separation refers to the shoulder and the hips separating. Notice my hips are going to stay forward here at six o'clock and my shoulders right now are trying to turn over here to nine o'clock without my hips moving. And then in the discus, so if I was in the shot, I'd be separated in the discus. We have two types of separation, shoulders, hips, arm, shoulders. You're going to notice how my arm kind of disappears and stretch, the reflex is when I separate and you see my body kind of sling back. So basically what that means is it's the longest point of when a muscle stretches and it reflexively contracts and that's a very fast motion. The radius refers to the length of the implement or especially in the discus, how far is your arm, right? The big radius. You got to have a big radius. Want the arm as far away from possible. So the distance from my hand to my thigh is shorter. The distance from my hand to my thigh is longer. The longer the radius, the further you throw. So that's going to be important. Now the radius ties into what we refer to as the orbit and the orbit is where the path of the discus is moving. You see how it's kind of moving across. So this is what we would refer to the high point as we would come around the throw, the discus would kind of come down. And then as we turn, it hits, this is the high point of the throw, but notice the orbit. So we're going to have high, low, high, and then out around and delivery. We have a high point in the discus as I just mentioned, and that's the high point here. This is really critical. So as we hit to the power position, we're going to be able to come around this way. OK, people talk about this, right? They want to turn the foot like this and a lot of people turn to teach, turn the foot. Now you're going to notice that my hips are still facing a little bit this way and they turn. So when I pivot, my hips do turn, but a lot of times people pivot and kind of hit their hips and notice where my hips kind of stop. Now notice when I push my heel up and I'm going to push the knee and then turn, notice how I've turned my hips a lot more and I have a lot more ground contact. And so when we rotate in the rotational throws, the axis is from the hip to the foot. OK, and you're going to notice when I'm here and that's what's going to make me rotate this way. And then we have another axis in the center and it's going to be really important to be lined up on the axis. So we're going to be able to come through. Opening is always going to refer to as going in towards the direction of the throw. Staying closed is going to be staying back. And in the throwing chain reaction, we refer to the power position as pillars five and six. We want to lock down maximum power and we want to then work into delivery so we can hit the big finish. Power position is when you're over the delivery leg, which is another term. And then we're going to be setting up our block leg. So the center of mass is going to be this rectangle from my hips to my shoulders, this rectangle. We can't have the rectangle moving around. So now we're going to talk about the sweep and the sweep is is usually going to refer to the right leg, which deters into the delivery leg. So at this phase of throw, pillar one, two, three, the sweep leg comes out wide in a nice rotational path. Then we will transition to the middle, which is going to be our pillar four. And then as I come in, that sweep leg becomes the delivery leg. Now, the next thing is we talked earlier about sprinting. This is the entry leg, sprint leg, balance arm. OK, so entry arm. We refer to it as so the sprint leg balance entry arm is at this phase, which is pillar one, two, three. As we go to four, that sprint leg becomes the block leg. And now the arm turns into the block arm. So now the last thing we're going to talk about is the reverse. I drive my delivery side all the way through the block and I come through my feet switch. So some people call it a switch, we call it the reverse. And then we have what we call as the non-reverse. Those are throw specific terms, like I made the example before. It's like football. What's a sideline? What's a yard? What's a touchdown? What's a goal line? These are basic things. This is your basic terminology for throwing. OK, guys, so welcome back. We want to be able to understand a throw. Sometimes people have different terminology. Most of that is just kind of core throws terminology. It's throws one-on-one. But when we've done camps, virtually live, we'll get half of the people in attendance raising their hand, saying they don't understand some of those basic terms. So that's why it's going to be really important. So now what we're going to do is I'm going to just show you real quick what we're going to look at here. So we're going to see our athletes setting up. And again, you're going to notice Sandra Perkovich. We've got separation. She's got, you know, here's the hips are facing this way. Shoulders are facing that way. Discus is way back. You're going to notice our, you know, younger throwers here that are learning system. Great separation on the younger athlete here. Here's a high school athlete that was, you know, learning to put everything together. And so we have where's our high point? Notice Perkovich is discus up here. So we've got the high point there. Again, notice our younger throwers got the high point a little too low. So where's our entry arm and where's our orbit, right? So now we've got the discus dropping into the low point, low point, low point. We've got, do we have the longest radius where we have that arm back and we've got a long radius here? We're looking at our entry side. So now you're going to start to see how all that terminology plays into your throw. It seems like a basic video, but it's not. It's really critical so that way you can continue to move forward. Remember, one of the big keys to being able to throw farther faster is to be able to understand these basic things. Therefore, it's easier to start getting into the complex stuff that we're going to actually make a lot easier. The throw really is simple. There's a lot of complexity to it. And I know that sounds like a contradiction, but the point is you want to simplify the complexity and that's what we're trying to do. So once we're clear on those basic terms, we're going to be able to really dive in. So in our next video, what we're going to focus on, like I said, is setting up the chain reaction and setting up maximum power. We're going to look at pillars one and two. We're going to look at beginners, top U.S. rank throwers, and we're going to look at the best throwers in the world. And we're going to kind of look at how everybody is approaching that pillar one, two, and you'll see the difference that what takes a throw from a beginner at two seconds to what takes it to a second and a half by the best throwers in the world. And that's what we're going to cover in the next video. So if you guys would like more information in the meantime, be sure to check the link in the description on the Throwing Chain Reaction System. We've got tons of information in there for those of you that really want to dive in. So do that now. Don't forget to like and subscribe and we will see you on the next video.