Why am I getting worse
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Topic: Why am I getting worse
Posted By: Timothy
Subject: Why am I getting worse
Date Posted: 1/05/11 at 8:38am
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Hi gang I have a strange problem, I am still new to this but it seemed like I was throwing better before I started to incorporate all the tips and suggestions and watch all of the vids....maybe my brain is getting in the way again, has this ever happened to anyone, and what did you do thanks for any help ------------- Life is like a road, sometimes you go up the road, sometimes you go down the road...Deputy B, Fife |
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Posted By: Wayne Hill
Date Posted: 1/05/11 at 9:09am
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If it were easy, it wouldn't be worth doing. I'm dead serious: throwing in highland games is character building.
------------- "We may be small, but we're slow." - MIT Rugby |
Posted By: prevail
Date Posted: 1/05/11 at 9:58am
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Been throught this and maybe your problem is the "ALL"
part of tips and suggestions.I have found that drills are useful to correct movements in throws but only one thing at a time.ie focus on identifying and then correcting one issue,practice till it is natural,then move on to the next. I almost feel like I have to forget how I was throwing before I can move on to how I should be throwing.This also happens when I gain/loose: weight,strength,mobility or knowledge of technique. ------------- LB |
Posted By: Rakeatthegates
Date Posted: 1/05/11 at 10:52am
| Depending on which event ie hammers if you add upper body muscle mass it can shorten your throws. |
Posted By: Duncan McCallum
Date Posted: 1/05/11 at 11:29pm
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Fundamentals. Work on those. And work on them some more. ------------- The man in the arena. |
Posted By: Alan H
Date Posted: 1/06/11 at 5:58am
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What Prevail and Duncan said. don't try to work on too many things at once. Analogy...my boss at a former job told me that yeah, it cost a couple thousand bucks to send me or a colleague to a conference, but if we came back with ONE really good idea, it was worth it. The same exact principle applies here. Go stare at YouTube, or go to a clinic. If you learn, really learn ONE thing from that clinic or from that 20 minutes of staring at YouTube, and then you incorporate that ONE thing, it was worth it. My own personal rule...NEVER try to do more than two things in one motion. This is from the guy who's buddies will tell you that I'm the guy on the field that overthinks EVERYTHING. Relax...get on your toes. That's what I'm telling myself in the discus these days. Ram that hip down the sector line... pull the top half around....that's what I'm trying to do in the shot/stones these days. NOT..NOT NOT NOT...Ram that hip down the sector line, AND pull the top half through the throw, AND get an active right foot, AND throw through my head. It'll never work. ------------- Alan Hebert Geezer-In-Training |
Posted By: charlesdmickey
Date Posted: 1/06/11 at 9:38am
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I am a wet behind the ears noob. But I do know for sports like HG, SM or PL you wont get rich and famous or popular with hot college chicks. So if your "head" is in the way; remember this is supposed to be fun. |
Posted By: Timothy
Date Posted: 1/06/11 at 1:57pm
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Thanks for the advise guy's it's kind of like my golf swing as I am setting up I am thinking" keep your head down, remember to transfer your weight, get your hips through, don't block the right side and dammit RELACKS"...lol.. so great advise one thing at a time and be fundamentaly sound...no hot college chicks? dang ------------- Life is like a road, sometimes you go up the road, sometimes you go down the road...Deputy B, Fife |
Posted By: Alan H
Date Posted: 1/07/11 at 7:24am
Beg pardon, but I hang out with hot college chicks all the time. then again, most of the time when they Want Me So Desperately, it's to fix their computer. ------------- Alan Hebert Geezer-In-Training |
Posted By: Duncan McCallum
Date Posted: 1/07/11 at 1:34pm
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He does...I was there. ------------- The man in the arena. |
Posted By: Tommi
Date Posted: 1/08/11 at 8:53am
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How heavy have you been throwing? That could be another factor. A good buddy of mine who is also on the forum, Scott Farr, walked his way up to about 32' in HWFD and then a couple weeks later he couldn't break 24' to save his life. All he needed was a few light weeks and to let his head clear up and he started walking his distance back up. If you push too hard you'll do yourself in. Don't forget to take a light phase here and there and to just relax and have fun. Another suggestion I remember reading on another forum was to try throwing without measuring for a while.
------------- Tommi.Kitchens. |
Posted By: Alan H
Date Posted: 1/12/11 at 6:03am
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Yeah. Overtraining will KILL your distances. I know all about it.
------------- Alan Hebert Geezer-In-Training |
Posted By: Timothy
Date Posted: 1/13/11 at 3:30am
I talked to my Doc because I was feeling fatigued and was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes  so hopefully the meds and a diet change will help..------------- Life is like a road, sometimes you go up the road, sometimes you go down the road...Deputy B, Fife |
Posted By: Adam Sizemore
Date Posted: 1/20/11 at 3:52am
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I highly reccomend reading the book Never Let Go by Dan John. He
emphasizes simplicity and reps. That way you don't have to use your head you're body just does it on its own an you consistantly get your best throw. ------------- @Sizemore48 |
Posted By: Throwgrl
Date Posted: 2/04/11 at 7:56pm
Timothy, these guys are giving you great advice. Am praying you'll get that diabetes licked. I'm masters with health problems, but am still out practicing. My doctors are making me go vegaterian, with a little cold water fish and 3 Omega 3 eggs a week. I feel better, but miss my spagetti and lamb. Good luck. Beth ------------- You can overcome adversity! |
Posted By: JWC III
Date Posted: 2/09/11 at 5:49am
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One day my older son was working on his baseball swing.
He kept missing my pitches when finally my youngest son said, "Hey, Dalton, maybe baseball just isn't your game"....Dalton turned around and told him to shut up in a very angry voice and turned back around with fire in his eyes and JACKED one. Some days we are more focused than others for lots of reasons. Sometimes, when we learn a new technique we get worse before we get better. I noticed when Sean Betz gave a clinic he would only teach ONE technique change at a time, when obviously there was lots of stuff going on. I asked him and he said, "If I show him everything he's doing wrong it will never work, you can only make one change at time, master it, then move to the next thing". ------------- Thom Van Vleck |
Posted By: Todd Bell
Date Posted: 2/10/11 at 3:29am
very well said Tom ------------- crouch,touch,pause,engage |
Posted By: Old Dude
Date Posted: 2/23/11 at 4:29pm
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When you throw, try to have "a mind like water".
------------- Over Fork Over |
Posted By: brandell
Date Posted: 2/24/11 at 12:34am
WTH Old Dude this is the Highland games. If anything have a mind like Scotch, or Beer! ------------- |
Old Dude wrote:Posted By: Old Dude
Date Posted: 2/24/11 at 10:29am
Paraphrasing the late Bruce Lee (PBUH):
I stand by my advice. ------------- Over Fork Over |
Posted By: brandell
Date Posted: 2/24/11 at 11:26am
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Now that is much better
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