Demolish & Rebuild

I’ve decided to completely deconstruct my discus technique and start all over from the ground up – soup to nuts…beginning tomorrow. This rather drastic move was prompted by the realization that my current technique is just not going to get me where I want to go. The USATF Nationals made this painfully clear.

I’ve got 5 weeks until the next meet, so hopefully I’ll be able to get in enough reps between now then to groove it a little before I have to roll it out for public consumption. Not that it matters all that much because the next meet is the Senior Olympics State Championship, and the goal of this meet is to place in the top 3 so I can go to Nationals next year. I know who my competition will be at this meet, and the sad truth is that I could place in the top three (and probably win it) with only a standing throw. This is not to say that my standing throw is all that fantastic, it’s just that I’m the proverbial big discus fish in a pretty small pond.

Now that I've had a taste of the big pond, the small pond just doesn't do it for me any more.