Glide Shot put 101

link to this video The first 3 minutes should help with keeping your chest up. You should be doing minimum 20 good C drills before throwing. I know it looks silly and pointless but its important for your body to memorize the correct positions. As far as the shoulder pain and vertical palm goes, keep your elbow pressed up tight. What I mean is if you are standing and you drop your elbow to your side your palm is facing verticaly. Now raise your elbow to shoulder height, now your palm is horizontal. When you are throwing keep your intensity low and focus your energy on keeping the elbow up tight and moving through a C position. When learning anything new you should only be throwing around half your max…

…get a firm grasp of drills you need them to do just by looking at videos on youtube. Since the throwing events rely so heavily on technique, you need to have them doing a lot of drills so that it becomes like second nature to them for high school. This will give them a very strong base for when they make the transition to high school. Shot put link to this video link to this video link to this video In all of these videos notice how the athletes push off of their heel. You want to stress this with your throwers. Also they should try to keep their chests facing backwards for as long as possible until they reach the front of the circle. When they reach the front of the circle, this is called the "Power position" [what…