 nice one that's a PR for sure that's a couple foot PR good work end of a long weekend Peyton Williams from St. George Utah he came to our pre-season camp within a few weeks of that he hit a 170 foot PR he had technically opened the season with like about 20 feet he's primarily a discus thrower he said he felt very uncomfortable with the spin and it was a really good examination into the throwing chain reaction system show me an easy throw like a wheel okay you've got your chest and we're gonna open the shoulder a little bit hips back so I want this hip on top of the knee stretch and hold and you're going to bring the shot into this arm go you feel that go feel a little different better different they look better I like that one we're gonna open the arm notice how your chest isn't moving so you'll feel your arm kind of going as you step wham then it stretches and holds and go ahead and go step stretch yeah so that's the next piece right so you got to open that was the right idea open the arm not the chest go yes now that was actually a lot better boom boom boom rip it around rip it around there feel that open around there we go that was a lot closer see how you're rotating faster now moving a lot better not too bad boy that was close ooh that was close that just came off the hand huh good sink and push so we're basically pre-turning the hips we're using the left side to wind the shot back to here there you go so you're pre-turning the hips so your hip is already into the throw so you're gonna bring it back and you're gonna come through you'll go back behind it yep now push with your hip and go that was much better alright so you'll turn and bring your upper body forward okay that was close wider base too narrow stretch and hold a little more sink oh just got the left floating around a little bit so now it's starting to move better okay so pull it behind there we go so see how it's still stopping remember I want the left to come all the way here to seven and the right to keep turning okay go there we go much better that's exactly what we want close not bad though oh that was pretty good oh close close that's good hey there we go one of the things we're gonna talk about again today is one of the simplest things about how to pivot and understanding the concept of pivoting and an axis if you're a brand new thrower and we're talking about rotational throws we're gonna have basically two rotational axis we're gonna have the road the axis out of the back of the ring and the axis in the middle of the circle so what we're gonna do is we break again the throw into the six pillars right so we're setting up everything here and we're getting this and now we have axis one okay so that's what we refer to as the entry that's your pillar two to three and so learning how to do this is actually a lot trickier so what we're gonna do is we're gonna talk about that so whether it's the shop or the discus we want you to understand exactly what goes on with that foot so here's what we're gonna do we're gonna make sure that you understand that rule number one is don't do this we've talked about this in some other videos that's a big mistake people try to turn because turning up here is actually easy to rotate on but you're flexed your planner flex so when the calf flexes and pushes it shortens the muscle contracts and now it's like trying to sprint off of high feet you're not gonna be able to generate much speed so you want to be able to understand that we stay with the foot low to the ground and we come around because there's what's called a rotational axis so this is our third grade science the earth rotates on an axis right the line from the poles and this earth spins around that axis so that line so we have a line here as well that's from the line from our hip to our ankle and so if we are turning with the foot up we have now tilted the axis and now the axis rotates like this so if I'm throwing the shot and I pick up my foot and I'm here right now some people say well why not just get over here because the hips are still falling and I'm still gonna fall in this way so it's very important to understand that vertical axis and this is things so if I'm a beginning thrower what is one of the simple things they can do well we teach 90 degrees okay so we move around in 90 and notice what I'm showing you I'm going to hinge it's gonna be we have a drill called a hinge drill and we shift and we're gonna go 90 and you're gonna feel how there's this little motion we always teach this kind of a motion so you feel this roll up in this kind of kicking motion that's our sweep leg kick that's another drill in our system what we're gonna do is we're gonna again make sure this stays low and this is a very simple way so you can go 90s you can go 180s and you can go 360s okay so watch I'll go back to my 360 and I'll be here okay now you're gonna notice my heel come up a tiny bit I'm gonna maintain that axis that's the key those are three simple drills and here's the thing that we always talk about throwing is unnatural this stuff takes time and if you're not doing these types of drills in the beginning especially you're short-changing your athletes now inside the throwing chain reaction system we talk about how pillar one influences two three four three four five six etc so that's the big thing that we want to be able to help you understand and work through but the first thing is understand that axis and understand how to rotate around it and that's gonna be one of the biggest things to teaching the first axis in the throw and that's gonna help our young throwers learning the rotational shot and the discus to hit big throws faster and throw farther faster