pissing me off
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Topic: pissing me off
Posted By: Alan H
Subject: pissing me off
Date Posted: 7/17/09 at 1:27pm
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I'm making great strides in LWFD in practice, but as yet it's not showing up in a Games situation. I mean, I'm throwing 42 - 43 feet pretty regularly in practice, with the occasional once-a-practice bomb out to 45+, but I get in the freeekin' Trig at a Games and my head gets weird and I can't settle down and I throw 38's. It's right pissing me off. It's probably all the lasses in short skirts watching and thinking I'm manly that distracts me, but I kind of don't think so.  Any thoughts? Accolades? Punishment? |
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Posted By: Alaska
Date Posted: 7/18/09 at 8:12am
| do you practice in the same place that you compete? that may help a bit.. you just need to get in the right frame of mind, i think.. dont let the pressure make you do things that you wouldn't normally do |
Posted By: West
Date Posted: 7/18/09 at 1:59pm
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make sure that the area you're throwing inside of during practice is the same size as what you throw inside of during competitions. ------------- Drink to the fame of it, honor the name of it, The Tartan. |
Posted By: dWood
Date Posted: 7/18/09 at 4:15pm
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because you are relaxed at practice and don't tense up!! ------------- JUST BRING IT / SPEED KILLS..BUT STRENGTH PUNISHES |
Posted By: jlmreddog
Date Posted: 7/18/09 at 4:51pm
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Don't think meat just throw. ------------- John McClure Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. Abraham Lincoln |
Posted By: KiltBill
Date Posted: 7/19/09 at 2:17am
I had been expieriencing the same thing this year, after looking at some game day pictures I realized I was not pivoting on my right foot. Throws were also going off to my right which after looking at the pictures was right in line with my hips. I would hit the power position after the second spin and freeze my right foot. This is completely different from how I train at home.
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Posted By: swollenknuck
Date Posted: 7/19/09 at 5:31am
| I can't remember who it was but one of the pro's at our games this year was saying that when he practices he will draw out the sidelines of the trig smaller, say 4' instead of 4'6". That way when he gets to competition it feels like he has all the room in the world and does not have to worry much about fouling. |
Posted By: Eclipse
Date Posted: 7/19/09 at 6:57am
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How many throws are you taking in practice? Limit your throws in a row. How are you warming up in games? If you warm up more, do you throw farther? ------------- "Somewhere in Russia, a little girl is warming up with your max." - Anonymous "Do not demand what you can not take by force." |
Posted By: Alan H
Date Posted: 7/19/09 at 7:42pm
In practice, my first throw usually sucks. My next 3-4 are the 38'ers, then I settle down and start throwing bigger. Today, actually, I settled down, make myself stay low and slow in the back and then throw high, and launched about 7 44-45 footers in a row. I've taken to doing 3-4 practice throws before getting in the trig, at the Games for exactly this reason. |
Eclipse wrote:Posted By: Alan H
Date Posted: 7/19/09 at 7:43pm
In fact, this is probably part of the issue. I tend to over-think. It certainly is, in hammer. |
Posted By: swollenknuck
Date Posted: 7/20/09 at 2:35pm
| I am finding this year the best thing that is helping is repetition. Last year I had the same problem so this year I go out the couple of weeks leading up to the games and just throw lots of reps. I don't throw for max distance, just maybe about 80%, just enough to get the timing and train technique. It is all about muscle memory, I used to teach martial arts and it was all about doing hundreds or thousands of reps so that when the time came you don't have to think about it. I would have to say it has worked, at my first games this year I hit a PR in every event and most went farther then I have ever thrown in practice. |
Posted By: Alan H
Date Posted: 8/01/09 at 6:12pm
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Well I think I got it, since I went 44' 8" at the Claw. I told myself slow..low...go..and then quit thinking and just *did* And I oblieterated my PR. ...as opposed to stones, where I write a freakin dissertation in my head before every throw. Hmm. |
Posted By: Bert Sorin
Date Posted: 8/06/09 at 3:17am
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Here is what I used to do (and probably need to do again): "give away" your first throw in competition. By giving it away, I mean treat it like an extended warm up throw, with little "pressure" from the competition. Go into thinking that the throw does not matter, and it is just prep for the next two that will actually count. I did this all of the time in my T&F days, and usually blasted a PR on my first throw with this technique. Whether you are trying to be amped up, your adrenalin will be high enough to produce a big throw without the pressure of comp. Good luck ------------- In Strength and Throws, Bert |
Posted By: JISurfer
Date Posted: 8/07/09 at 3:39pm
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Very good point Bert. We used to call it the "safety throw", basically the same thing. Also, what I like to do in practice, especially ones close to a comp, is throw like your in a competition. It's all about the mental aspect of it. A lot of people don't realize that the mental part of throwing is just as important as the physical part of it. Visualization of the event helps as well. ------------- eh... |
Posted By: Alan H
Date Posted: 8/17/09 at 2:16pm
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Good idea, Bert... JISurfer, you're totally right on the visualization, I do that all the time and it helps. |
Posted By: Coach Mac
Date Posted: 8/17/09 at 6:34pm
What BERT left-out is this was his POST-MEET throwing approach to the woman at the clubs. I remmber the throwers in the S.E.C. saying " Hey we just followed Bert around and took the left-overs"... I'm assuming they are NOW called "give-aways"...? I'm waiting for the new Dos Equis beer commercial with Bert installed as the Worlds Most Intresting Man >-------O
------------- Have a GREAT Day ! Rob " Coach Mac " Mac Kay |
Posted By: Borges
Date Posted: 8/18/09 at 3:43am
"I don't always throw sheaf, but when I do, I throw a Merl Lawless bag." ------------- Cheers, Carlos "Live free or die" |