Open Stone Throwing

Before someone responds with a detailed breakdown of
each technique and their advantages/disadvantages,
here's a short, simple version.

If you're athletic (mobile, coordinated, balanced) and
very powerful, glide. It's the most consistent. If
you're powerful and very athletic, spin. Harder to
learn, less consistent, seems to go farther when you hit
it right. If you're just an average schlub, not
particularly athletic, shuffle. Much easier to learn and
execute, won't go as far but at least you can learn to
hit a decent power position and explode into the throw
while you work away from the trig on your athleticism.

I am learning the spin. Should prove interesting the first few games. Watch out for tremers.

Bob... remember the box is 4 by 7.5 feet.... not the convenient cercal

weaselking wrote: 1 spin for Eclipse is called a "day".

What hppens if he spins using a reverse rotation?

Eclipse wrote: Watch out for tremers.

I see Bob has answered that question.

Eclipse wrote: Yes, I am slow.

Remember when spinning, the stone will need to reach escape velocity for it to escape your gravitational well.

One can use the gravity slingshot effect to accelerate an object but I found in WIkipedia that it has limitations:

If a stone gets close to the Schwarzschild radius of a black hole (a.k.a. the ultimate gravity well which some have aledged to be Bob's stomach ), space becomes so curved that slingshot orbits require more energy to escape than the energy that could be added by the black hole's motion.  However, a  rotating black hole might provide additional assistance, if its spin axis points the right way.   

This all means that you need to keep that stone tucked in to your neck when doing the spin!

And besides, with the glide you get to use both hands...right?

Keep up the great advice gentlemen!

Respectfully,

Duncan McCallum

Mc I would glide until I got a little more profecient at it.  The basic idea is easier to get going, and as stated by others it is much more consistent.  Once the glide starts going better you will have established the type of specific strength necessary to begin hitting better positions in the rotational style.

Josh-

Try placing the stone right under your ear, behind your jaw, and jam it in there tight. When you glide you should have the stone against your jaw, but you need it further back in the spin to keep it from coming off too early like you are describing.

Im a spinner but like others I sugest the glide at first. Just try to keep  over yourright leg when you hit the power position with your sholders square or slightly cocked. Left down and right torqued back and up. Think of reaching out with your left hand and shaking hands with the midget. Lower body moves first and legs. Then when you move forward and up on the legs let the body unwind like a spring. Lastly hit the giant with your left elbow in his jaw. This will pull the right sholder around. Then ................ oh boy this gets long. Try to go back to the old forum and look this up. I and others have written a lot on this a couple of years ago. If you have thrown discus then the rotation is similer to a South African

 

Paul

I have to agree with everyone here, go with the glide first.  And listen to Quint.  I threw against him in college and he's a big time shot thrower.  He's right on with the positions you can hit in a glide.  Once you hit those positions and get your body accustomed, then you can go for the spin.  The spin can, I believe, create the greatest torque and power.  But, that's not to say the glide can't make you throw bombs, history proves that you can.  

Also, 2 of the top 4 Pro throws in the OS were a glide.

I'll send you an email later this week.  We're looking at trying to practice in Rockford this Sat.  We just want to confirm the weather first.

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