Throwing Drills To Stay Closed (Immediate Results)

Throwing Drills To Stay Closed (Immediate Results)

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Throwing drills often address many things in throwing but rarely do they effectively train athletes to stay closed during the throw. Understanding of what needs to happen to stay closed is often the determining factor. The old method of simply telling an athlete to "stay closed" or not to fly open or to open up later in the throw is nearly always ineffective. This is because the throw is complex and occurs in roughly a second so it is often difficult to change one variable of the throw. Combine this with athletes not understanding what really is necessary to stay closed and the likelihood that a thrower will actually stay closed longer and perform other variables of the throwing motion correctly is slim. We have a vast number of techniques, including many facilitation and inhibition techniques, that we utilize to teach an athlete how to stay closed. These two drills which utilize prepositioning and force an athlete's chain reaction into throwing arm side rotation early in the throw have proven to be effective even in the throwers who seem to fly open regardless of the cuing given to them while throwing.