 Hey everybody, it's Eric Johnson from Airtate Throws Nation and in this video, what we are going to cover is the reason I don't care about fouls in training. Check it out. Okay, so in today's video, what we're going to talk about, a lot of times people are focused on not fouling in practice because they don't want to create the habit that leads to fouls in the meat. That's a very good argument and it makes a lot of sense in many ways. However, one of the things I'm never really concerned about as a coach with the throwing chain reaction system is that we aren't concerned about fouls for the following reason. The basic principle of if we have an efficient transfer of momentum, which is when I'm going to hit the shot or the discus, and when everything comes through clean, you're going to see when the athlete reverses, they're going to be coming around and there's not going to be a lot of wasted energy holding the position in the ring is effortless. So the more efficient the thrower is through the finish, that means they're more on balance, they're more engaged, and so you're not going to have foul issues. So when I see athletes that are consistently coming out of the circle, whether it's the shot or the discus, and they're having big fouls, it's other things in our chain reaction that we need to clean up. So specifically, again, we're going to go back to our pillar one, two, three. We're going to look at our balance points. We're going to make sure that we're setting up really nice, balanced positions that are going to help us create a lot of speed moving into the middle of the throw. And then we're going to make sure that our power position, our pillar five, and our pillar six are properly engaging so that we're going to create that really clean transfer. So you're going to see that nice block and then you're going to see a nice extension and everything's going to come through on balance. If you take a look at like when Ryan Krauser won the Olympic gold in 2016, you're going to notice he had a great series that day and his throws were really efficient last year. In 2018, Durell Hill had a massive series at the Diamond League Championship. Four of his legal throws were over 22 and he had two small fouls that were just, they were also over 22 meters. The point is you're going to notice when these throwers are hitting everything really clean, there's not a lot of wasted movement after the throw. So one of the things, rather than training athletes to kind of start modifying bad positions to save off-position throws, you want to start understanding that it's about training the other mechanics that create the most efficient transfer of energy. And that is the speed of the athlete's body is transferred to the implement and technically that's how an implement flies far, right? So it's how fast the athlete can move and how much, how effectively they can transfer that energy to the implement, whether that's the shop or the discus. So when you're out training, be sure to not get into the habit of if the athlete is in a bad position, training them how to save a bad position, rather start looking on why the bad position and why the foul is occurring. Again, looking at that chain reaction, we're going to see how we're going to fix that. And that's why typically none of my throwers we've ever been really concerned with fouls and training. We're looking at why they're fouling in the first place. And when we fix that, we fix the problem and we throw farther faster. All right, thanks so much for watching. If you like this, be sure to subscribe, throw any comments down below and thanks and we'll see you in the next video.