 Okay it's off season and there's gonna be drills coming up galore. This is the time you get tons of work done to create those great patterns so that you make those massive jumps from one season to the next. However the drill have to be right otherwise you're gonna get really good at doing the wrong thing and in this video we're gonna talk about a thing that I see all over the social media right now and it's absolutely killing young throwers. No! God! Don't do the drill this way I'm gonna explain what it is in this video so check it out. Hey everybody it's Eric Johnson from Airtay Throws Nation and in today's video what we're gonna discuss is do we keep the foot high or low. This is a total secret little killer. I recently saw a video of somebody teaching this and I was inspired and I don't take issue with what they're doing because I know this is what they think is the best thing but I'm gonna politely disagree. One of the things we're trying to learn and if you look at the best throwers in the world you're gonna notice when they come out and you're gonna notice the height of the heel and you're gonna notice that heel coming down lower because that is going to influence the entry and the axis enable you to get around the left. Now I'm seeing people do some drills and they're teaching that the heel is up high and they're coming around and they're holding it and the and they're staying high and then they're going here. Now think about this logically this is why I'm going to say don't do that anymore and if you're seeing any videos like that or you're watching stuff don't do it because what we talked about in one of our previous videos about some distance killers we were talking about what causes over rotation and when you stay up on the ball the foot you've got the you've got the calf already planter flex and think about it a sprinter has the pads in the blocks angled like this because they're basically in this position so that there's there's no pre-flection they're they're loaded up their knees are so when they push they'll basically contract planter flex and that's going to increase speed so to have a throw where we need to drive across the circle if we are already up on the ball the foot we're already in essence have a flex calf so how fast can I run on a preloaded flex calf I'm not going to run fast you don't see any NFL receivers doing that you don't see anybody who's trying to be fast doing that and last time I checked when we're throwing the discus or the rotational shot we have to be fast and so if you're doing drills where you're learning to stay up on the ball the foot and come in here you're not learning how to sequence the load through the hips and what's going to help also set up a sweep and we'll talk about that in another video but the key thing is is if you're doing 180s keep that heel lower and then as we are going to be coming in and pushing everything in now I'm going to be able to get that left or my sprint side moving into the throw so whether you believe you should push off of it or only pull it we teach to push and pull from our pillar three to four the key thing is is if you're pre-flexed you can't do it you're not going to create as much speed and therefore you're not going to throw as far so real quick just to kind of illustrate my point I'm going to show you the feet of five world-class throwers as we're looking through we look at these videos we really fundamentally believe in the following you've got to mimic and drill movements that are as close to the throw as humanly possible because if I'm drilling something that I'm going to do in my throw it's going to carry over into my throw I'm training the pattern and therefore when I throw I do the same movement I don't want to have two different movements so if you're always learning to stay up on the ball the foot you're going to have a funky entry and it's going to cost you a lot of distance I think it's really critical especially for new coaches and new throwers you want to avoid this even if you're somebody who's a little bit more experienced and you're trying this stuff you're just cutting yourself you're cutting your nose off right away so don't do it so again let's look at these top throwers let's look at how these guys set up when they set up and you look at their feet and you see them coming out you'll notice that the entry side heel is typically elevated no matter who we put up notice how they all have the heel elevated and watch how as they shift from pillar one to two into starting pillar three notice the heel position how it's dropping down it's not on the ground but it's it's much lower than where it started because that has a direct impact on how that axis is set up and how you're going to be able to move around it if you stay high you're going to be real rotational you're going to lose the linear motion into the thrower the ability to create that linear line and then that's going to slow you down too much rotation means you're just spinning in place too much we're not going to be able to again to create the right type of speed across the circle which is what we need into the middle and we're trying to get the that left foot from that point down to the ground as fast as possible and that high heel is another thing it's going to typically result in a slow floating left into the power position or entry you'll sprint leg into your block that leg is going to be slow and that's going to kill you hopefully you enjoyed this video if you have any questions be sure to list them below we're going to be doing some new stuff picking comments and giving away some free stuff like video analysis and different things like that so be sure to comment thumbs up if you like this video found it helpful be sure to hit that subscribe button and we will see you on the next video you set the wrong orbit right from the start it's going to be really difficult to correct that are there people who do and people who have unique orbits yes like looking at progress