You tube is your friend! Study the professionals and do what they do.

Start with stones. For one thing, the gear is cheap! Get yourself a nice round rock that's between 15 - 17 pounds. Go uip on youtube and look for videos of standing shot put throws.

Here are a few...

slow this down and study it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqk6wSbvCdA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NKo53z1jaY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz6eGJrYzYI

Stones drills you can do...

Here's one, hosted by some nobody who doesn't know what he's doing..LOL..but the drills are still good to do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD3zFC1M_Yo

Ryan Viera

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65cP4CyeADY

.................that will keep you busy for months.

to do the other events you'll have to actually make some gear, and there's lots of advice in this thread about how to make them.

One piece of advice. When you start doing the weights for distance, start out doing one spin. don't even think about doing two until you are putting a lot of ooomph into one spin and have it well coordinated.
thanks for those links Alan.

chur

Phil