28 pound weight for distance

[Alan H]

things have really started to click for me with this event recently. One of my issues last year was that I was all over the trig with my turns, and I fouled out a lot. What I've started to get right, now is the first turn. If I do it right, I hardly change position at all. last year I was eating up 2 1/2 feet of the trigs distance in the first turn and that forced me to choke off the second turn. BAD.

Carefully watching videos this winter, of some of the pros *really* helped.

Anyway, I'm jazzed, I had at least 6-7 throws over 40 feet, tonight and 1-2 might be starting to scare up 45 feet. I had a number of 42 pound throws in the 29 foot range, which for me is just *GREAT*.

[ChattanCat]

Congrats Alan, Hope we can meet at the KC games!

[Yaish]

Congrats Alan.

I've always been a single spinner, but in practice now I'm starting to work on a double. That first spin has to be "in a stove pipe" so you have room to move forward, then you need to 'attack the trig'. The pro's I've talked to all say if you aren't risking a foul on every throw you aren't moving forward aggressively enough.

To be honest, that's the first time in my life I've ever been accused of not being aggressive ENOUGH.

Alan, do you have any video of your throws?

[Alan H]

Congrats Alan.

I've always been a single spinner, but in practice now I'm starting to work on a double. That first spin has to be "in a stove pipe" so you have room to move forward, then you need to 'attack the trig'. The pro's I've talked to all say if you aren't risking a foul on every throw you aren't moving forward aggressively enough.

To be honest, that's the first time in my life I've ever been accused of not being aggressive ENOUGH.

Alan, do you have any video of your throws?

The stove pipe analogy is spot on.

I pranged up my lower back in the weight room two weeks ago and so I've been staying out and going really easy on throwing since then. One thing I have been doing is actually practicing doing the first turn with no weights. I just center my body, keep in mind that I want to basically move in place, and do the first turn with nothing in my hands. Somehow that has added up to finally conquering my year-long habit of moving forward much too much during the first spin. I now have nearly all the trig to work with for the second spin. Not having to choke off the second spin to avoid fouling out has made all the difference.

I find that even if I do relatively easy throws, but just concentrate on feet placement, arm extension, starting the first turn with the weight up high, and balance, I still am banging them out there at around 40 feet, every time. I hope that with another two weeks (and 4 practice sessions) I will have ingrained the movement pattern into muscle memory so that I can start really accelerating during the second turn. we shall see.

My goal from last year was to toss the 28'er 40 feet. I almost did it at Livermore and then things kind of went into the basement, and I registered no improvement from there. So it's really nice to finally make a quantum change in how this is going.

I gotta get some video...yup.

[Alan H]

BAH.....yesterday I will ripping with the hammer, turned the caber 4 x but couldn't do squat with the 28'er. Just goes to show, again, that I'm in the never-nevr land of knowing what to do, but not being able to do it CONSISTENTLY.


Practice, practice!

[Yaish]

I'm right there with you Alan. At my last Games (Bakersfield) I did a double spin for both light and heavyweight for distance, the first time I have ever tried that in competition.

I did great in heavyweight, I had a 22' throw which is close to a PR for me, and with practice I think I will be pushing closer to 30 with the 56# weight.

On the 28 now... I had a best throw of only 36'. That's almost ten feet off my normal throw, and I just couldn't do any better. Part of it had to do with pulling a muscle in the heavyweight throws but part of it was just not getting the form down.
Yet, when I was warming up earlier I was tossing the 28# 45 feet or so consistently.

As you said, practice, practice, practice....