First Ever WFD Throws

These are my very first attempts at throwing WFD. I watched a couple of videos of people throwing, put a few 5# plates on the ballistica, and this is the result. The whole thing felt awkward. I felt like I was out there just jumping around in circles and throwing a weight at the end of each motion; it felt jerky and uncomfortable. How do I improve?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN-ZsaItnow&feature=youtu.be

Where do you live at? Training with someone would help.
Practice casting the weight at 1:00 then initiate the first turn. When you can do that post more video. First turn your right foot replaces your left foot.

Ok, there are some good things happening here, and some easy fixes.

MUCH Better!!!

JSiau10 wrote: Look for anything with Ryan Vierra, that's the ticket.

I've been wearing out YouTube doing just that. Actually, I was watching a Ryan Vierra video yesterday from the 2002 Celtic Classic. I noticed he starts his upper body rotation much earlier than I do. I begin my rotation right before I initially jump into the box, around 1 o'clock in the swing. He begins rotating his upper body before the weight even gets back to the 3 o'clock. I also noticed during his orbit the weight is higher in the front and lower in the back than what I'm doing. I'm gonna try to imitate these things today with some more one turn throws. We'll see how it goes.

JSiau10 wrote: where do you live? if you can find some guys nearby who get together to throw some weekends, that would be a great opportunity to take advantage of.

I'm in Sumter, SC. I've put my name and info out on here, on the shagshag site, and on the SSAAA site with extremely limited success. Bert Sorin put me in contact with a guy around here who said he would get a hold of me when he and his wife go throw, but I haven't heard anything in a few weeks now.

I'm on the same page with you, though. I'd love to throw with some folks who can really help me learn the proper technique(s). Having someone on the spot to point out my mistakes is how I learn best. It's just a matter of me finding someone. For now, I guess I'll keep throwing, posting videos, and getting whatever advice I can get a hold of.

Second video was already miles better than the first one.

Try to make a little more forward progress during the throw.  I see you have a board in front of you to take the place of the trig board... OK, step back another short step and start your throw again. Try to move up towards the board, while you're getting under the weight, after you cast it.

You can cast (forward like Duncan told you) kind of slow-ish, then get real quick with your feet and get "under" the weight. If you do it right, your right arm will be straight out to the side of your body, or even a bit "behind" you.  Hit that position with your knees bent, and PULL LIKE HELL, with your hips leading.

Finish with your chest up.  Like the lasses say...'show 'em what you got". 

Only 99,743 more throws to go to perfection!

You know what I'd say?  ....not everybody is going to agree with this, but what the heck.