 So here we do what we call is a static wheel. Now a static wheel is where we're starting with and you're going to see how the discus is coming forward. We've got that inverted orbit and now you're going to see it. Hey everybody it's Eric Johnson from Aritae Throws Nation and in today's video we are going to break down another series of common mistakes that we posted on Instagram of one of our young throwers. Now this is a thrower who background is a freshman. He really is his first year. He had maybe about three or four weeks of training in middle school where there was one coach and so many kids and it was very limited and there was one very short track meet with maybe three throws. So it's not a really big foundation to build and again the way we train in the throwing chain reaction system is we're trying to teach athletes things teach them how to apply and sometimes we're moving them through at a faster rate so that the athlete has the ability to apply. So this athlete did attend a camp has learned a lot but now is faced with getting the body to be able to move. So again this athlete being completely raw has never really had any kind of structured training program is pretty green and new to most of you know a wide variety of movements in the weight room. So this athlete is going to need to be working on strength, conditioning and technique in the weight room as well as lots of technique fundamentally learning how to create better positions in the throw. So here we do what we call is a static wheel. Now static wheel is where we're starting with the arm out and we're teaching the athlete how to create the right alignment points and basically setting up position that requires initiation from the lower body first. Now what you're going to see is as we start to let this athlete go the athlete basically gets way too active does a decent job of trying to push off. So you see this he's trying to initiate the movement but again the alignment is off. So one of the first things we talk about is getting the foot alignment correct and so now you're going to see that the orbit drops and then that is going to wreak havoc on the throw. Now another thing is when the athlete's here the hits too high a little bit too high of a high point from here because the discus has to be able to move up to the high point the proper high point of the throw and what you're going to see is the athlete's orbit is being inverted. Once the athlete's orbit's inverted now you're going to see this type of action there's no ability to rotate because the athlete's axis is lined up like this. So let's try that. So you're going to see the axis he's loading the weight here and the weights here and what you would need to see is the weight going here right it needs to be moving over the knee so you can see that the knee didn't move and the knee in the chest is behind the knee here. So as you see this athlete come around you're going to see that the foot comes way too high kind of loops around the orbit's inverted the discus is catching up to the hips and he's trying to rotate you can see that we've we've got that he's been learning the action of the lower body but the thumb is straight up the block arm is way too high and now there's going to be no real stopping motion and you can see right here that he's actually on the heel so the shoulders in the wrong position the arms folded in the elbow doesn't come down to engage the lats and that is because this athlete needs a ton of proprioceptive work he needs to be working on just being more coordinated and strengthening up and doing lots of things to develop general athleticism as well as a ton of throwing motion movement so now what we'll do is we'll just kind of point these things out with some markers like we did on our instagram post and you're going to see how the discus is coming forward we've got that inverted orbit and now you're going to see it so we pointed all out the delivery foot because of that if you guys have are out there watching this and you can't get athletes to rotate your right foot coaches if you're coaching if you're new to this and you're checking out videos or you're a dad or you're a new thrower trying to figure this out and you just can't ever seem to get that lower body right you're most likely have an inverted orbit which is creating this motion right so you see how the chest is coming back and the leg is coming forward and now you're going to see that type of motion right there you see how it doesn't move so what you're going to see is the athletes and is kind of lined up here on the axis the upper bodies right here and the orbit is here and really what you should be seeing is we should be seeing everything lined up here in the orbit over here and that enables the discus to rotate around and out you see how he would be able to come out but right here you can see on this that's going to cause him to open too much and he's not going to really be able there's the hips and the shoulders are completely together that orbit basically forces that foot down and so you can see that that thumb's going to be up on release and the block arms too high largely due to that inverted orbit and that causes all sorts of problems hopefully you guys got some information out of this and if you're making some of these mistakes hopefully that's some of the things we point out a couple of solutions we would offer is that you should be doing a lot of your basic stuff holding the discus getting super you know super comfortable we would say ultra comfortable carrying bowling tossing figure eight wines all these sorts of things we'll post some of those things up here in the coming weeks we'd work a drill in our system called the push-pull drill we would teach him how to do specific pillar four drills because this movement is a pillar three four five six drill and we're teaching specifically how to move the lower body which he began to do between the inverted orbit and the hand carry position that just got everything off whack and now the chain reaction is a chain reaction you don't want so you want to be able to get to that high point so you create a chain reaction that is going to help you move through the biomechanics in the positions of the throw fluidly and it's actually easier to throw farther you just need to learn how so hopefully you guys enjoyed today's video thanks so much for watching be sure to give us a thumbs up comment below check out our free courses and check our website for upcoming online free workshops we hope you guys stay safe and healthy we'll see you on the next video