 Hey everybody it's Eric Johnson from Airtay Throws Nation and in today's video you're gonna notice the new lovely throwing area that is here at Airtay headquarters aka my home and what we're doing is because we're on lockdown with this COVID-19 we want to encourage people to try to maintain a normal schedule and one of the things that we want to be doing ton of progress can be made by doing drills at home working on throws uh adding in some bands and med balls so we're gonna be doing a lot of drills uh and different training here in our driveway because for a lot of you this is actually almost like a blessing in disguise it really sucks needless to say what's going on with the health impacts uh what it's doing to our lives and jobs and the economy and it's just bad on so many levels but what we want to try to do during that time is make the most of it turn those lemons into lemonade and what we want to do is get as much improvement as possible so that means with a lot of you being shut in you literally have the opportunity to work a lot of position stuff so one of the things you want to be able to do is you know check out the tcr system all kinds of details on how to develop those fine tune those positions tons of drills all that good stuff but for today what we're gonna do is we are going to talk about the power position how to improve your stand throw and add more distance now remember one of the most important things that you're trying to do with a stand throw is you're trying to move into positions that train and carry over to your full throw so many times people are just trying to throw far and there are some things you can do to just kind of make the implement go farther from a stand throw but to remember the point is is we're not stand throw and we're looking at developing the full throw so what we want to do is work on stand throws that have the most carry over to the actual throw so now that being said one of the first things we want to make sure we're gonna do is we want to make sure we get that heel toe position so a lot of times people teach people to set up like this set ups and then step in and set up their power position now the problem and the why we don't teach that is because I start with my weight on my left and it requires a lot more transfer to my right and you're gonna notice how I just set that angle what here's what happens most people will do this and then they do this and they keep the foot on the ground now there's a right way to keep the foot on the ground in a wrong way and what we're gonna talk about in this video is just making sure we set it up right and you're gonna notice that if I'm on one leg right my foot's here I've set the angle and now when I wind up here I have a more stacked up axis the point of this is we want that axis of rotation and we want to be on top of it one of the big mistakes you see is people shifting and they've got too much weight so they step here they do this and they bend over and they're they're actually shifting their hips onto the block leg and off of the delivery leg and so now you're seeing this type of thing that's a problem so what we want to be able to do is what we're gonna do is we suggest start from the middle of the circle get your heel toe alignment and we're gonna stretch this way so we want to create an angle where we're basically standing on one leg and our shoulders sitting outside of the leg and then we teach what we call as an elevator drop right so we're teaching this and now you'll notice that I'm on top of the axis and that's going to create rotation if I bend at the waist and I shift weight here and off of here I'll turn this way and I'm gonna turn off you're gonna notice that my hips are facing outside this sector and I'm gonna lose a ton of power and distance so one of the key things you want to do is do these drills over and over and over so set the angle we say set the angle stack elevator drop we teach this at all of our camps and then what we're able to do is very easily turn now you're gonna notice the position of my foot my knee is going down we're not going up we're not shifting we're rotating the delivery side around so again and I'm gonna be real careful to say when I say rotate we push it okay and we rotate and we talked about this in smother drills and we break this down in depth inside the throwing chain reaction system and we give you a whole bunch of drills to teach that movement in a more efficient way again the key thing to improve your stand throw is to really make sure that you're on the angle make sure you don't load the the delivery or the block leg too early and you want to stay on top of the delivery leg and push yourself into the block leg set the angle set the stack stay on top of the axis so you can rotate it make sure your heel toe alignment is aligned correctly what's the real reason for that if I'm here I can easily turn my hips into the direction of throw if I'm closed I clearly block myself off and if I'm too open I'm gonna I'm gonna pull myself off as well so you have to have that good alignment so that you can create the right type of force in that finish and that's going to translate to bigger stand throws okay guys so hopefully you found this video helpful if you did be sure to give us a thumbs up comment below if you have any questions be sure to check out the throwing chain reaction system be safe stay strong and we'll see you on the next video