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quote: Originally posted by Unregistered
how many and what type of drills do you see this product?
It strikes me that there are a set of very obvious drills that one should work on with this tool. Below is one. I'll offer a few others in subsequent notes. And, if you have ideas...please do offer them.
1. Work on Throwing the Same Speed (This is a natural.)
Use bio-feedback to improve your ability to throw the same speed time after time. Normally you might throw stone after stone and assess the consistency of your weight by seeing how far your stone travels. (A pretty important exercise, we¡¦ll grant you that.)
a. Prepare yourself in the hack to throw a stone as you normally would.
b. Deliver your stone paying particular attention to the feeling of the strength of your drive from the hack.
c. Release the stone -- as you always should -- before the hog-line.
d. Immediately review your stone's speed on the display.
e. Internalize the speed output from the display and associate it with the feeling of the strength of your drive from the hack.
f. Try to duplicate the same speed with subsequent deliveries.
As a part of this exercise (and others)Verbalize to Create a Contract with Yourself
You might find this odd, but verbalizing will almost certainly help you improve. When you are using the SpeedTrap, you should:
1. Always think of the speed that you want to throw
2. Verbalize (yes, aloud) the speed that you want to throw before you deliver
3. Deliver with the intention of sliding at the speed that is your objective... and then, immediately
4. Observe the actual result, i.e., the speed on the display
5. Verbalize (again aloud) the actual speed.
6. Assess the actual relative to the desired.
7. If your actual and desired speeds were:
-- the same (or almost the same), say, good control; a positive affirmation.
-- too slow relative to the desired speed, say, too slow, I¡¦ll drive a little harder
-- too fast, say, too fast, Ill drive a little slower.
These short, simple vocal affirmations are the completion of your contract with yourself. They are praise if you were successful and constructive criticism if you were not successful with your last shot. At the completion of this contract, you put it aside and move to the next shot¡Kmuch like you must learn to do during a game.
Note:
Verbalizing/vocalizing both the objectives and the results during the exercise is a very constructive part of the learning process. It will almost certainly improve the results of your training. Training silently -- with your thoughts occurring only in your head -- will generally produce inferior results. Verbalizing does a number of things:
1. It forces you to concentrate more on your task at hand. This, in itself, will improve the quality of your training efforts.
2. It objectifies both your goal and your acceptance of the results. This makes you more accountable for what you intend to do and what you actually do. Essentially, when you state your goal overtly, you create a contract with yourself. Immediately after you throw, you assess the quality of your performance and you admit this assessment overtly. Then you decide what corrective action you will commit to in order to improve. |
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