Why am I getting worse

If it were easy, it wouldn't be worth doing. I'm dead serious: throwing in highland games is character building.

"We may be small, but we're slow." - MIT Rugby

Depending on which event ie hammers if you add upper body muscle mass it can shorten your throws.

What Prevail and Duncan said.

don't try to work on too many things at once.

Analogy...my boss at a former job told me that yeah, it cost a couple thousand bucks to send me or a colleague to a conference, but if we came back with ONE really good idea, it was worth it. The same exact principle applies here.

Go stare at YouTube, or go to a clinic. If you learn, really learn ONE thing from that clinic or from that 20 minutes of staring at YouTube, and then you incorporate that ONE thing, it was worth it. My own personal rule...NEVER try to do more than two things in one motion. This is from the guy who's buddies will tell you that I'm the guy on the field that overthinks EVERYTHING.

Relax...get on your toes. That's what I'm telling myself in the discus these days.

Ram that hip down the sector line... pull the top half around....that's what I'm trying to do in the shot/stones these days.

NOT..NOT NOT NOT...Ram that hip down the sector line, AND pull the top half through the throw, AND get an active right foot, AND throw through my head.

It'll never work.

Thanks for the advise guy's it's kind of like my golf swing as I am setting up I am thinking" keep your head down, remember to transfer your weight, get your hips through, don't block the right side and dammit RELACKS"...lol.. so great advise one thing at a time and be fundamentaly sound...no hot college chicks? dang

Life is like a road, sometimes you go up the road, sometimes you go down the road...Deputy B, Fife

He does...I was there.

The man in the arena.

Yeah. Overtraining will KILL your distances. I know all about it.

I highly reccomend reading the book Never Let Go by Dan John. He
emphasizes simplicity and reps. That way you don't have to use your
head you're body just does it on its own an you consistantly get your
best throw.

@Sizemore48

One day my older son was working on his baseball swing.
He kept missing my pitches when finally my youngest son
said, "Hey, Dalton, maybe baseball just isn't your
game"....Dalton turned around and told him to shut up in
a very angry voice and turned back around with fire in
his eyes and JACKED one.

Some days we are more focused than others for lots of
reasons.

Sometimes, when we learn a new technique we get worse
before we get better.

I noticed when Sean Betz gave a clinic he would only
teach ONE technique change at a time, when obviously
there was lots of stuff going on. I asked him and he
said, "If I show him everything he's doing wrong it will
never work, you can only make one change at time, master
it, then move to the next thing".

Thom Van Vleck

When you throw, try to have "a mind like water".

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Paraphrasing the late Bruce Lee (PBUH):

Bruce Lee wrote:

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like whisky. If you put whisky into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put whisky into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, whisky can flow or it can crash. Be whisky my friend.

I stand by my advice.

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