Sheaf help

Practice this drill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M8pRHffACk

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

Duncan knows little of sheaf...I got lucky one time.

Dude, change your shoes!  WFH is slides?  OMG.

Sheaf vid #1 - there is a DEFINITE stutter before you block with your left.  You watched the sheaf...don't do this.  Let the crowd tell you how you did.  When you try to watch the sheaf, the left shoulder begins to pull back behind the hip; this changes the path of the pull and the trajectory of the bag, resulting in the bag landing WAY out to your right instead of straight back behind you.  Granted, a straight up and down throw is a rare thing, but that is what we want...looking/watching the sheaf is a surefire way to avoid making big throws.

Sheaf vid #2 - Same thing...this time you didn't look at the bag, so you didn't hook it.

Sheaf vid #3 - Same thing as #2.  You are not making the Nike Swoosh/check mark with the bag.  It is almost like you are trying to lift the bag at the end of the cast, and that is causing you to stutter at the end.

Sheaf vid #4 - Do this.  Lots of times.

Sheaf vid #5 - GAH!  This was looking good...look at your feet.  At the beginning, your left and right are not parallel.  This = Gonna hook it.

Sheaf vid #6 - Better.  See #4.

Not a bad effort man.  You do a couple of things very well.  First, you are not swangin the sheaf around your body during your casts.  This is good.  Second, you are clearly very strong in your lower back, because you are not really using your legs...this is ok for lower heights, but if you want to throw a bag over anything that starts with 3 you're going to have to use them (see McKim, Dan).  Keep working the check mark and get a good hard block with that left arm.  STOP looking straight down.  Pick a point about 8 feet out in front of you and focus your eyes there...once you get ready to actually pitch the sheaf, you're going to explode up in the air; looking down makes it hard to jump up.  Try it.  As you are pulling the sheaf up and getting ready to block your eyes should be traveling a straight line UP from the point you were staring at...this gets you in what I like to call "The best position to throw a sheaf bag high" position.

Overall, I give you a B+.  Lots of good things happening here!

Thanks for all the help. I see that in all my events, i don't use my legs enough. This is really bad, because its not like i'm benching, nevermind overheading, 300.

I hopefully will get some good numbers this weekend.