TRAINING LOG:Alan Hebert

dl_buffy wrote: Uhm...actually...I looked it up to make sure before I did get them switched...:^P Centripetal is the force that pushes you back toward the center, ie if you are in that barrel ride it is centripetal force that the wall is exerting on your back.   (So...ur hand is exerting the centripetal force on the weight.)   Centrifugal force is what makes it head away from the center...(from Latin centrum, meaning "center", and fugere, meaning "to flee")   Meaning the weight is is gaining in perceived weight because of the tendancy of it to 'flee' from your hand.   Booyah!       (LOL at knowing that I had to do my research before speaking in front of this crowd. )

Re:  What do I call the effect when I swing said object at end of spring and get increases in the deflection based on speed of rotation? 

Dang Alan, your log gave me a math migraine.
Good luck this weekend Brother!

Tangential?   The hammer is only tangential to the radius AFTER you release it!

Santa Cruz Scottish Ren Faire and the Loch Lomond Highland Games


GIGANTIC Open Stone PR @ 34' 8.5" -totally stoked about that!  It didn't feel like anything special, but it just flew.  I like that stone, that didn't hurt any.  First throw of the day... POW.

I followed that up with a wretched performance in the Braemar stone, but then that stone had nowhere to hold on to.... 24' 10 or something. Kit Soneson beat me on this one by about a foot.

Heavy Hammer... good at 68' 8", still hunting 70.  I still think of an average throw as being about 64, but I've been throwing well over 65 almost all the time recently so maybe I have to "up" my standards!
Light Hammer ... a bit off, with a bunch of 78-footers but I stuck one at 81, which is certainly acceptable. Anything over 80 is good, though I want and should be throwing 84+ all the time. THANKS to Andrew Wooster and Heather MacDonald for some coaching tips in the hammer cage.

Weight over Bar... got 13 again, which is good, 13' 6" was out of reach, so Kit Soneson and I tied in this event.

Heavy Weight for Distance...32 feet and some inches. Nice, though I fouled a lot of throws.   I have to drill my first turn more so that it's tighter and I'm not all over the place, as both Kit and our judge Kristina commented how I was all over the trig..  Also have to start practicing in a marked trig. Using a board and a back line is not enough.

Light weight for Distance ...48' 8"...certainly a very respectable toss, but I'm still in the hunt for 50+...again, fouled a lot of throws.  I did a "single spin" for my second toss, put it at 44+, which is pretty nice for a one-turn.  Did that 'cause I fouled my first one and I didn't want to get myself in a hole.

Sheaf.. cleared 24, would have cleared 25, but no 26, on Sunday.  I might have gotten it if I didn't get amped up and tight.
Turned the qualifying caber, then best of 11:50 with the "cyber caber", the indestructo  steel light post that the SHA has that's 15"  and about 80 pounds.  Kit got me with an 11:55 on this one.

Nice pic from Kit Soneson.  Thanks, Kit!...bar is at 24.  I'd have gotten 26 if I hadn't gotten all amped up and tight about it.

Three-hour CHAC throws last night, most of it on weights.  Had new guy, "Matt" show up who took to the weights really fast, but has a ways to go with WOB and Caber.

Two+ hours on weights, throwing with a marked trig now.  We confirmed by video that I'm doing this wierd, stupid thing with my left foot in the middle of the trig. It's totally unnatural, how did I start doing this?  So worked on *losing* this little issue with some, but not great results.  I do it more on HWFD than light.  Tried going back to my old way of landing in a pretty narrow base at the end of the first turn and that seemed to help. I also don't foul out the back if I do that.

I spent a couple of throws trying to get my low point, before reversing my feet, back a bit, it does seem to help with staying in, so thanks, Jake!   Also threw 56 for distance a few times, since it went so God-awful bad in Greenville on Sunday two weeks ago. I chuck Steve Elliots' slightly overweight 56'er about 22 feet.  meh...could be worse.

Working on getting Bethany to come in low and flat on her cast and then goes ovaries to the wall in the sprint and pull. When she does it, she throws nearly 60, so c'mon girlfriend!  Got Robert to settle in a more balanced position, less bent over, and to think more about "get your feet down fast"  rather than "charge the trig".  He's so tall that going too aggressively to the front screws him up.  He had a couple of throws 58-60, NICE.

Then some WOB, not a lot.  Matt threw the 28 for starters, Robert got in a few pulls with the 56 and I cleared 10+  "clean" with the 56, three times, so that's good. I actually might throw 56 in practice for a while and see if it helps me build some  strength for the 42.

Then a bit of caber with the womens stick for Matt and the local rugby players. I played coach.  Fun practice.

Now off for a week, hiking in the eastern Sierra Nevada. No lift, no throw. Hike. Gawk. Sleep in. I dig it.

Welcome back Brother!

Astronomologer, eh?

If the movie "Brave" is playing in your area with the Pixar short "La Luna" you need to go see it just so you understand how the half moon really works.

Three hours CHAC throwing practice last night, most of it on weights. We had four throwers out tonight.  Something funny is happening to my throws. I'm over-turning the first rotation. My right foot is replacing the left OK...I'm within about 6 inches of "the spot" but I'm turning WAY too much and my sprint takes me clean out of the box.  I'm having to back off on the first turn to stay in.  Must WAIT  and then *ping*  quick the first rotation. If I do that, I'm OK but it feels very wierd, and UN-aggressive.

Still doing the steppy wierd thing with my left foot in the middle of the box. It's me compensating for this huge over-rotation in the first spin, that's what it is.  If I back off, it shrinks down to almost nothing.

Then some hammer....back was tired. *meh* ..... trying to get Steve Elliot  to wind on his right side and look up at delivery.

Then some stones with Ted.  Ted has got the "chest up" thing figured out, he's gonna PR at Monterey for sure.  I was just plain tired and did nothing of any note.  Finished up by showing some Shinty players how to throw hammer and stones.

Duncan McCallum wrote: WFD - Sounds like you are leaning backwardz.

This is just wierd, Dunc. It took me two practices and Steve Elliott telling me exactly where I was winding up after the first turn to grok what was going on.  I think the key to correcting this is to relax....still have the hips tell the weight where to go, and wait..wait...wait for it...*ping*-reverse nice and quick and easy.  The 3-4 times I did that, I threw pretty well, the foot-wierdness minimized, and I wound up delivering the weight from the middle-to-left-hand-third of the trig.

..............instead of two feet outside the left-side line. Seriously.

Happy with how the Team Championships went on Sunday, but sorely disappointed in a couple of CHAC members who were total no-shows, leaving me with 3/5ths of a team.  We had to recruit a guy out of the stands, who was a returning B thrower from Saturday. I threw a t-shirt on him and we did our best, but sheesh. Thanks for pitching in, Patrick!

My throwing was at the bottom end of the scale. I'm knocking on the door of a PR in heavy hammer, everything else is sorta OK to World of Suck.  If I didn't have Kathys trophy to give out at Enumclaw, I'd cancel, they have a huge group of Masters who are all tons better than I am, anyway.    But I won't bail...gotta give out that trophy.

45 minutes laid back throws last night...just me.

Did about 10 LWFD tosses, working on wait, wait, waaaaaiiitttt...*ping* with the feet.  Also trying to not move backwards in the trig with my first turn.  Let's try moving forwards a couple of inches, instead. Most throws @ 47-50 even with kinda burned up legs from Monterey, still, and when I do this, I move straight down the middle of the trig. No fouling out the side, like I did twice at Monterey.

Did some open stone, trying to seriously hit the hip.... tried a few glides. They're about the same as usual, I get the same distances standing as I do gliding.  I didn't have much kaboom, but I'm still recovering, so no worries.

That's why I started spinning...  Of course either I go significantly farther than standing or significantly shorter...