 Straight down the sector everybody it's Eric Johnson in today's video We have a practice that includes five throwers three are in high school and two are experienced post-collegiate throwers I think it's really important to see what kind of goes in behind the scenes It's really easy to look at videos and kind of say this thrower should do this or that is missing this or that But you don't necessarily know what's going on You don't know if there's mobility issues You don't know what kind of training restrictions are you don't know what the type of athlete you're dealing with I put my arm down And I reach forward so you're not going anywhere and first up is max Ruben max is one of our throwers He's been throwing with us since the eighth grade He's made really great progress and he continues to get better biggest challenge He's had is feeling the throw now you're gonna notice what we do in our practice here We're gonna go through a progression start with the modified wheel or the 180 or the half-turn whatever you want to call it Working our pillar three four five six Max is gonna start his own like look at that shit There you go max look at that There's been a lot more progress than just what you would see when we show you the before and after you go Wow, that's a huge difference. What you don't know is along the way He's a good hard worker thing is is he didn't feel the throw well and not until recently until we made some shifts to Be again a little less technical and focus more on rhythm and feeling and really trying to Equate motion into his thought process That's all started to make a huge difference for him and progress has been really really good Especially the last few weeks and I'm really excited about where he's going We have a strength training for throwers with two workshops coming up learn how to structure your strength training program to optimize your throwing technique We're gonna talk about it to upcoming webinars. Check the link in the description. We'll see you guys later So Nate is a perfect example. We talked more advanced athletes. He's competed his PR is 64 40 It's 211 plus feet Nate has worked with some great coaches in the past So he's been using the system now for about a year. He's made a lot of really good progress He's understanding his throw a lot better. We're showing him how to create positions Now one of the things we're dealing with is is actual he has hip and some ankle mobility limitations great shape strong lean But is a perfect example of this so even though he looks apart There's still some little structural things that will help to optimize his movement and he's an older athlete Who's working a full-time career position? You missed that one under rotated that left a little Jordi Ellis Jordi was a ballet dancer And so Jordi was taught on how to hold his posture and core He has good posture But he also has a posterior pelvic tilt where the back of his hips kind of tilt down in the front of his hips tilt up And this causes a whole bunch of issues in his throw We recommend we like front squats is a big part of our training cycle to add in Squat movements because they has a lot of correlation over to the throw Jordi's actually better off with back squats because he has that posterior tilt There's a lot of different things that Jordi does that are happening technically and those are creating challenges So we have to make adjustments based on the posture type So we look at the weight room and how we're affecting the posture Jordi came in as a sophomore So now we're trying to increase his weight and add some needed mass to and strength to his throw The lower body comes there So Jason Harrell's been to five consecutive us championships the end of 2019 He had some adductor injury that was kind of a reoccurring annoying injury. So we've restructured his lifting program this year He's slowly getting his strength back He's been getting into good technical positions and things are moving along really well And here we have him throwing a heavy bar so he can get and develop some specific strength and feel some very specific things related to the technical positions That was actually pretty good Jay Mason is a really quick athlete strength levels have been going up core was really weak hamstrings really weak And that was creating some limitations technically so because he's really quick We decided to move to an offset and he's learning the timing change So his distances are slowly going up, but he hasn't found that really great rhythm yet and that's what we've been working on Where'd you slip in the middle? Yeah, you you've floated right so here's a perfect example where mason kind of hit the middle He was just his angles were off and he slid you know You're gonna miss throws and you're gonna have weird things happen. That's part of a throwing practice Hopefully you guys enjoyed today's video as you can see there's a lot that goes into what we do with the throwing chain reaction system If you would like to learn more about how to structure your practices and find the things that help unlock your potential Click the link below and we will see you on the next video