TheBeardedFatGuy
Birdie Member
Normally I'm a backhand player (RHBH), but I decided it was past time to work on my sidearm. Like most people, sidearm is closer to the non-DG throwing technique I'm most used to, from throwing a baseball, football, rocks or whatever. While I was practicing my sidearm drive about a month ago I started noticing something interesting. The moment when I'm 'cocked' and ready to pull through, if I've positioned everything correctly, is accompanied by a definite feeling. It's like all the lines and pulleys of the body have pulled tight and are ready to exert the force of the throw effectively. If I don't do it right, something feels 'slack', and I know I'm not going to have as powerful drive as I could. Now, with my backhand drive, I've never really gotten that feeling that everything was ready to pull through, but I'm going on the assumption that the same sense of everything's in the right position at the right tension that I get with a forearm drive should be there for a backhand drive as well. So, I've been trying to feel for that moment on the backhand, and I'm starting to get a bit of it with regards to my shoulders, though not with my hips. Before I noticed this 'feeling' of everything being ready to throw, I'd always just tried to get the motions and timing down, but that never created this feeling, and maybe that's because I was focused on position and timing and not including that taking up of slack to where I'm right at the point where a powerful pull through from legs, hips, shoulders and arm are cocked and ready to go.
Can anyone else relate to what I'm talking about here? Working just on position, movement and timing doesn't seem to have done that much for me. Maybe I should have been looking for the correct feeling that says I'm optimized for a powerful pull-through instead?
Thoughts?
Can anyone else relate to what I'm talking about here? Working just on position, movement and timing doesn't seem to have done that much for me. Maybe I should have been looking for the correct feeling that says I'm optimized for a powerful pull-through instead?
Thoughts?