 Hey there everyone it's Coach Johnson from Arte Throws Nation and today what we're going to talk about is Glide Shotput 101 and introducing you to how to throw the shot put using the throwing chain reaction system. So essentially what the TCR, the throwing chain reaction or the TCR, we focus on breaking the throw into specific components which we call pillars. Some people call them phases but we're talking about distinct parts so that's going to allow you to better understand specifically where you are in the throw and then what specific pieces or pillars of your throw need to be worked on. Now one of the things we have up here we have a video we pulled David's Storel and we'll look at Ulf Timmerman. So what we're going to look at in this video is we're going to look at two elites and then we're going to look at a couple of youth or high school throwers and then we're going to see the big differences in the technical changes. So pillar one is the setup and there's very specific things happening here, how you set, how you're going to be setting alignments, angles and even in the glide there is a form of separation if you notice how David Storel creates some separation. So pillar one we recall is the setup and the setup is going to be critical because that is what creates your chain reaction. Now when Storel begins to load so from this point of setting up and separating and then as we come into our glide tee we're going to notice how we're creating a counter balance effect with this obviously the kick leg and one of the things is as we go and we come out of pillar one we're going to go is what we refer to as pillar two. Pillar two is loading and coiling and that's where we're bringing the shot put and the kick leg drawing it in and that's our coil and the coil is going to refer to the position of the upper back and the left shoulder and left kick leg or I should say the the block alarm and the kick leg. So when you look here and you look at Timmerman who is probably considered hands down the greatest glider that's ever thrown over 23 meters multiple time world record holder gold medalist the Germans are definitely known for their pretty pretty stellar glide technique and so here when you look at Timmerman you're going to see that same pillar two he's loaded and coiled and that's what's going to allow that big strike across the circle so this is going to move us into what we refer to as a slide pillar three in the TCR is sliding and that's where we're moving the kick leg in the center of mass and we're initiating it into the throw so this is going to give us some information and then we're right at this point we're in what we refer to we call it pillar four now the reason we create a distinction with with your slide position your pillar three is because we have to be really conscious of where the center of mass angle is as you're going to be trying to strike into the power position so if you look at storel here on the left we look at now we're going to be we're sliding so that center of mass is staying in this nice line and that kick leg is going to extend and so his line stays kind of here Timmerman was clearly super dynamic you're going to see how everything gets there we're going to create double extension but if we look again at storel we're going to pillar four is here it's drive and kick so we're punching off the right and kicking the left and that double extension is what you'll see different drills so that's our pillar four so we want to see this position here and that's going to pull us into the power position which is pillar five you're going to notice that right foot touchdown typically in the glide the right foot touches down and it's you're going to see that catapult and shift into the block leg into the left and again if you notice Timmerman same thing right foot touchdown left foot touchdown and the key to a successful glide in the power position is as that heel elevates you're going to notice how that's pushing that knee around and into the throw which is going to take us into pillar six so pillar five is basically power position we're going to be conscious of alignment where's the head in relation to the foot in the knee we want to see the weight back and the ball behind the knee and you're going to see when we look at some young gliders we're going to see how they have a tendency to have everything shifted forward so as we get ourselves in position and we can move the hip into the throw now we're going to be going into pillar six where we're going to be activating a big delivery and delivery is huge right when we're actually coming through with that's why in the TCR we teach it in two pieces because we're want to be conscious of where we're placing the power position how we're moving out of the power position to get into a striking dynamic delivery position pillar six so that is the big thing you can see here it's sequential you see that block arm stop you see the block leg stop you tend to see with gliders that the right foot tends to come off the ground before the left because a glider is it's a linear delivery and they're driving in right you're seeing them drive into the throw and through the block leg moving the right side towards the center of the sector and moving that right hip all the way to the toeboard and this is why you tend to see gliders they finish very upright because it's a linear position you can see how the left arms stops and creates that big extension and if you look here on the right and we look at Timmerman the same thing you see that right hip punches through so this is why you want to avoid in what we teach or we avoid we don't teach the jump and switch I think that can have a place for a very short period of time but what you're trying to teach is how that right hip is going to come around and extend into the throw or the delivery side hip so that you see this really nice extension obviously here's the difference between this is like a 22 plus meter throw the throw here on the left is a 21 plus meter throw roughly around 69 feet and this one's over 72 feet so it's interesting to just see again you're noticing that delivery line noticing the block notice when both feet come through and look at the extension of the hip we'll talk about the inverted C in another video you can reference some of our different videos and you'll see what we're talking about in the next video what we're gonna do for glide 101 is we'll do a comparison of two high school kids but the point of this video is to help throwers and coaches understand what are what are what's happening in the throw and when we start to understand that structure of how the chain reaction works and how the pillars will enable you to identify your weaknesses and then be able to work on developing you know working working on your weakest links and then also understanding that what are your biggest strengths and how to continue to improve those things and most importantly once you understand how a chain reaction works you can start to see that many of the problems that are occurring through pillar two you know three four five six are often an issue oftentimes in pillar four five or five and six is a direct result of what didn't happen correctly in pillar one and two so set your chain reaction understand your six phases of the throw so hopefully this video helps to have you understand that the most important thing for a throws training is to create to have a structure to follow if you're just going out and you're throwing randomly and you're just working on the whole throws as one piece then you're going to be leaving results on the table you're going to have a hard time identifying what's going wrong and it's going to make your timeline for success a lot slower so hopefully if you like this video be sure to give us a like below check out our website we have more information and 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