Thanks for ALL the input on the WOB stuff and the links to videos.  I managed to get my form back almost barely in time for today's KC Highland Games.

I managed a PR today!  I was 'hoping' for 13ft.  Because the competition was ... well fresh (LOL) ... we ended up going up to 14ft.  WOW!!  WOW!!

Directly attributable to the help here.

Thanks again.

(ps...I have also learned the importance of a clean handle....WHAM...weight went about 10feet forward and I went about five feet backward.  That was ... interesting.)

Aye....that was interesting.  From the snap, I thought you popped a tendon!!!

Good work at the games big man...now come to Texas and learn what heat really is!!!

Aerial display...well, let's see...

I thought I had Dave all tied up...then he makes 13 and a half on his last throw.  So, we go up to 14.  I have height, no direction...

Dave, on the other hand, throws a MONSTER straight up into the air...comes crashing down on the bar...barely misses.

Again, same result.

Finally, and this is the part where I question KC's gravity and overall relationship to physics...Dave throws his weight almost UNDER the very elastic bar, and I will be drunker than Cooder Brown if that 56 does not hook over it for the win.  Until that point, I had never seen anything like it...

That is until he did the same thing 3 times in a row with the sheaf. 

Kansas City Zero Gravity Games 2009!

haha,

I meant his aerial display when he lost hold of the weight

Oh, that part.  I was there for that too.  He takes about 123452345 warm-up casts, then makes for this big pull....

SNAP!

The weight comes flying out and Dave goes shooting out the back.  We all look up, because with a noise like that, either he just set a record, or his arm is still attached to the weight and we want to be able to say we watched it happen.

Well, after about 5 seconds we realized there was no 56 lb weight headed to Earth, so we looked in the opposite direction from where Dave went.  We found it.

"I should have cleaned the mud off the handle."

Yes, you should have Dave.  Yes, you should have.

Duncan McCallum wrote: ..or his arm is still attached to the weight and we want to be able to say we watched it happen. -------- "I should have cleaned the mud off the handle." Yes, you should have Dave.  Yes, you should have.

Hey, who knew that dry mud could be just as hard to hold onto as wet mud..  Still fighting with the video formats...but almost have a blooper reel all to myself...what with throwing myself across the field on the LWFD.

As for the new WFH techique...we'll call it the Lewis Flop.  The point of the throw is to plan it so that you catch the bar with the center of the weight (WFH > where handle meets weight)(sheaf > middle of bag)...now you have to throw with enough momentum to then cause the implement to spin around the bar.  This appears to be good for another 5-6".  Now, that spin has to be planned exactly right so that you can then use the flexibility of the bar to rebound the implement...thus freeing it from the spin and causing it to change direction a second time and be cast free of the bar.  Thus you have now managed the Lewis Flop.

Videos of this techique will be selling for $50.  Definitely a steal when you realize the AMAZING results from this SUPER SECRET technique that has heretofor only been seen in the deepest darkest wilds of Irleand.  And today you can get it for only five easy payments of $10.

The darkest wilds of Irleand are pretty dark.  And fairly wild.  Much more so than the deep, dark wilds one might find in Ireland.

That was a great day DL...you certainly win on style points!!!