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Breaux
Greer 79.48m 260'09.00 throw at Florida Relays
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photo sequence is taken from a throw in excess of 79m by Breaux
Greer at the 2000 Florida Relays on March 25th. On that day,
Breaux walked 4 strides into a 5 step throwing pattern and had
2 throws over 79m that day. This throw represents a great improvement
in technical movements for Breaux, who set his career best of
79.98m at the 1996 Olympic Trials. He has always had an incredible
throwing action from his chest/shoulder/arm and he demonstrates
it on this effort. Moving to Athens, Ga to train with Don Babbitt,
the change in routine has worked well for him. Don has developed
some very solid improvements in Breux's technique, the most
obvious being how well he now holds his left shoulder during
delivery. He also uses his left leg to stablize his hips and
create a great elastic reflex in his chest and shoulder. Fig
1 - 3 show him on his final right/left takeoff proir to his
crossover and plant. Even off just 4 strides he shows a very
explosive final left ( Fig 4) along with an aggressive right
leg, and shows good "waiting" for the right to land ( Fig 4-6
); he doesn't place the foot down hard. His active left takeoff
has recovered his plant very quickly (Fig 6-8), and he maintains
an excellent line with his shoulders and javelin as he plants
the left leg from low and behind (Fig 9 - 12) as a result of
a quick drop and roll of the right knee and foot. He passes
over his right quickly and his body weight is completely on
his left as he begins the upper body strike on the javelin.
Fig. 8 - 13 show good use of the left shoulder anchor; his right
side covers a great range as it delivers the javelin while the
left shoulder stays fixed over the left hip. More speed from
a longer runup would make the hips shift from right leg to left
as they rotate ahead of the shoulders ( Fig 10 - 12 ), the hips
are very well anchored behind the left to provide a stable base
for the upper body to strike from (Fig 11 - 16 ), however, his
throwing stride is a bit too long. As a result his waist breaks
a bit early (Fig 10) and it cost him a bit of abdomenal stretch
that would have given ore power to the chest. During this delivery
Breaux shows his incredible throwing shoulder- not many thowers
on this planet can do what he shows here ! There is a very powerful
follow thru after the delivery( Fig 15 - 18 ), an indication
of an effort without tension or fear and his ability to control
himself in one stride after release ( Fig 18 - 22) show that
most of the energy he generated went into the javelin. Breaux
has made some real strides in his throwing technique, and if
he continues to improve as he has the last 3 months he will
become a force to consider on the world scene sooner than we
thought....way to go, Don and Breaux !! |
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