zj1002
* Ace Member *
You guys keep mentioning basic techniques and advanced techniques. Can someone provide some examples of what they would be?
That is just way too advanced to disclose here :wall:
All kidding aside, I can provide my personal experience in teaching. In the last couple years I got to the point BlakeT seemed to reach here. I became frustrated with a lot of this stuff where we tell people their technique is wrong because things are off by 3 degrees one way, or the shoulders aren't turned all the way one direction on the reach-back. I couldn't teach students any of that because it wasn't applicable. They couldn't grasp the concept and apply it because nothing about their previous throw was athletic.
I decided to go back to the basics of most sports, keeping my initial lessons targeted on moving things forward toward the target. The rest of those angles and mechanics vary from throw to throw anyways and this is why I think critiquing videos of open field bombs is semi-useless, they generally aren't real lines.
So the first 2 things I try to teach all my students - keep your weight balanced, and bend your knees. Its really the 2 most important things as these impact your ability to open the hips, elbow, shoulder, etc all toward the target. It is vital to gaining both accuracy and distance. If you are flat footed on any throw/putt, you can't shift your weight forward, it stalls out/up. Bending your knees helps facility this and gets your big muscles going. Most people don't grow up learning this or are old enough that they haven't done it since high school 10+ years ago. Once somebody begins to understand that, then you can explain how it can help open the hips, elbow, etc.
Unfortunately I can't quickly provide a list of basic vs advanced techniques aside from I said about weight shift. It would take some time to analyze what goes where in the rankings of technique. There are lists over on DGR that break it down, so maybe someone can dig it up.