How do I throw a discus farther?
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There are many ways to throw farther.  I have some tips:\n1. Get stronger.  Regardless of the weight, being strong is very helpful for the discus, because it's over 2 pounds at lightest and over 4 for men's (2 kg).  Lifts the top throwers like to do are squat, bench press, snatch, clean and jerk.  I guess butterfly lifts aren't so bad.  Free weights helps.  Your entire body has to be strong; you can't just have strong legs or just strong upper body.  Not only strong but powerful as well.\n2. Make sure at release, your hand is a little lower than your shoulder.  The discus tilts in mid-air due to a gyroscopic effect, and releasing it lower lets it spend more time level to ground instead of tipping to the side right away and stalling.\n3. For the full turn, hold your non-throwing arm (left arm if you're right-handed) out the entire time, until release when you pull it in hard.\n4. Try to get a good "power position" which is what you need to be in just before release.  (right-handed) Both feet should be facing almost backwards (you twist them forward when you throw).  The left arm should be extended, as is the right.  Your upper body is torqued back as far as possible.  The left arm should poitn down a little, and the right arm should point up toward the sky a little.  Then twist your feet, pull back with right arm, turn whole body, put everything into it.  Pracitce this position, then practice your turn until you can land in this position and let it rip.\n5. Practice, practice, practice.\n6. Watch videos for some ideas.\nhttp://www.macthrowvideo.com\n(click links at the top)
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The women's shot put is 4 kg (8 pounds, 13 oz.).  The discus is 1 kg (2 pounds, 3 oz.).  This applies to all colleges, as well as international competition.
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throw it on the ground..HARD
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i guess it would depend on how much he practices, i dont believe there is a set distance that someone should be able to throw. just have him practice enough to get better, but not too much to injure himself
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Just gotta lift weights and diet properly.  Strength is strength, so if you build your arm muscle, you'll be able to throw harder and longer.
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Use the ball's shape as a weapon. For example, a softball curves mores than a baseball, but this principal is the same - a four-seam curveballl will curve 3-times more than a two-seam curveball.\n\nThis can be a weapon, you can throw a two-seam curve or two-seam fastball. Then throw the identical same pitch but rotate the ball 90 degrees in the grip, thus throwing a four-seam and the pitch will look identical for the first 2/3rd of the flight but curve 3-times more in the last 1/3rd of flight.\n\nTrue for baseball as well.
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Learn how to throw a Slider or a Knuckler(KnuckleBall) Those 2 pitches drop and are pretty tough to hit when thrown right! Kick A$$ Man!
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Throwing harder is not usually accomplished by workout but by proper technique.  YOu do want to workout to establish a basic level of strength, stability, and agility. I highly recommend a good long toss regimen for this... But the biggest thing you can do to increase speed is perfect your technique.  Recent research shows that the stride is responsible for 80% of the speed of the pitch.  Based on that research to maximize velocity a pitcher needs to stride at 90% of height.  So a 6 foot tall pitcher should stride nearly 65" for maximum velocity.  72" X 90% = 64.8".\nThe next thing to look at is the actual throw with the arm.  Is the elbow above the shoulder and is the elbow leading the ball... does the arm get good whip action along with good snap of the wrist at release.  One common problem on velocity is holding the ball too tight and too deep in the hand.  For maximum velocity ball should be out in the fingers and held loosely.  The last compnent is to make sure you are getting good follow through on the pitch. I hope this gives yo some direction. GOOD LUCK!
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Try aiming for the barrel if the first dart go's in. Try throwing for double twenty and when scoring consistently, drop down to treble twenty. Good luck.
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see if this helps\nhttp://www.factnet.org/discus/messages/3/3151.html?1095853622
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Use as much of your body as you can - legs, back, shoulders.  Don't just toss the ball up, stand straight up, and swing your racket.  Instead, once you've tossed the ball crouch your body, bending at the knees AND the waist, as low as you reasonably can.  At the same time drop the shoulder of the arm that your racket is in as low as you can while keeping your toss arm up in the air (this will help you balance).  When the ball reaches the top of the toss, spring/uncoil your body by straighteing/uncoiling your lower body and at the same time bring your shoulder with the racket up and through the ball.  Notice "through", your follow through across your body is every bit as important to power (and accuracy).  Note - racket speed also has something to do with it but get this motion down first and once you've gotten comfortable with it you can work on doing it faster for even more speed.
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keep practicing your hand skills by throwing the ball up and catching it. the more you do it the more you will get use to it. trust me 94 all-city wr speaking here. it worked for me. try to keep it simple as well! good luck and don't give up!
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To throw a spiral you take the ball in your throwing hand with your four fingers on the laces and your thumb on the opposite side. Most people hold the ball towards the center, but you have to use the grip that best fits you. Don't "wind up", but rather bring your throwing arm back and then whip your arm forward to let your four fingers on the laces impart a spin on the ball. Practice to improve the motion and tightness of spiral
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There are two ways.\n\n1. This is the most likely way.  On a day with no wind, throw the ball straight up.  This is quite unlikely and requires a lot of skills.\n\n2. This one is impossible.  Throw the ball so hard that it goes around the Earth once before coming down.  Humans just don't have the power to do this.
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#1.) Make sure you are using a heavy enough lure and set your reel...this must be done EVERY time you change lures. Tie the lure on and reel it to the tip. Now with your magnetic drag on 0 set your mechanical drag by loosening until the lure begins to drop slowly. Now put your magnetic drag on 6-7 for now and back up as you get better eventually ending at 2 or 3 for a setting on you magnetic. IMPORTANT** if your lure is too light you are screwed and will backlash enough for you to break the rod over your knee.\n2.) For a righty casting is very similar to hitting a raquetball . Depress the thumb bar and keep your thumb on the line...load the rod on your backcast and swing sidearm with some wrist at the end of your swing and take your thumb off the line (using the theory of a hammer hitting a nail usually helps)...where you stop the rod is where the lure should fly. Practice on targets will improve accuracy and thumbing the line to stop short will come in time.\n3.) You may be having some difficulty because a med-heavy rod is really almost a flipping stick....a whole nother story...it would be easier with a 6 ft. med action rod which will let you cast a little lighter lure easier and give you a hell of a lot more sensitivity...either way keep at it...it'll come in time and it does have some advantages with certain lures (cranks, topwater) over a spinning rod but then again the spinning can outdo the baitcaster with other things (worms, spinnerbaits). Hope this helps....Tight Lines!!
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I think you are supposed to assume the minimum velocity possible, which means tossed at a 45 degree angle. Otherwise he could throw it farther by using the same velocity at 45 degrees.\n\nvelocity = v, y velocity at time t = v/sqrt(2) - 10t so y velocity is 0 at \n\nt = v/(10sqrt(2))\nIn time 2t the distance travelled is 96.90, so\n\n96.90 = 2tv/sqrt(2)\n\nThese are 2 equations with 2 unknowns, solve for t and v (there may be a careless mistake in the details since I did this fast, but the technique will work)
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Slow down.\n\nAnother one of my tricks is this - you say that you use senko worms.  Get the ones w/ about the last inch and a half flat.  Cut small circles in the flat part in the middle in a line from the base of the flat part to the tip.  Once you've done that, (you should be able to get about 3 holes), cut down the middle from the tip to the base.  Then you've cut the flat part down the middle from the tip to the base and each side will have 3 half circles in it.  This causes a different style of vibration while you're reeling and I'd also be willing to bet that no one else on your lake is doing that.\n\nThere's all sorts of things you can experiment with.  Try wrapping bubble gum around different parts of the worm.  Take a razor blade and bisect the worm from about a half inch past where the hook goes in all the way to the end.  if that doesn't work, rotate it 90 degrees and bisect those two halves where you have 4 pieces of worm.\n\nI've heard of people who will put cheerios on the hook between the eye and where it's buried in the worm.  (the exposed part of the hook will have like 5 cheerios on it).  \n\nUse a lizard and when you put the hook through the nose, run it down in there about an extra inch.  Then the soft plastic nose will actually be about 3/4 of an inch on the line.  Make sure you've rigged it to float and you can cast it into some lilly pads and every now and then, lift up on the line and it'll look like the lizard is picking its head up to look around.\n\nThese are just some ideas right off hand.  The best thing to do is to get creative.  That's another bonus of soft plastics.  They're inexpensive.  You can literally destroy one trying to figure out new ways and you're only out 25 cents.  Get a holepuncher and a razor blade and go to town!