Practice session results, apparently the pitches in the balls were not making any difference, but after 2 games of just shooting and recording, I sat down and copied to the laptop and watched them all:
something jumped out at me right from the beginning, I noticed my shoulders were not square to the lane, to the right and arm was flailing in that direction too. I slowed it down and saw my plant foot was turned to the right also. I paused it and threw 4 more balls (all the different pitches) all of them did the same thing. I then slowed everything down to a crawl, and only took 1 step at the foul line and everything was fine, track line was good, shoulders were square. The item was my leg kick, I did pull a muscle about 6 weeks ago in my right leg, not the hamstring thank god, and I cou;dn't figure out how I did it.
Now I know, I was forcing my right leg back and to the right so fast, it was turning my body to the right through the upswing -
I turned on the camera again, and threw a few frames, concentrating only on easing my right foot to the left (not back and left) (Track line moved closer but not exactly where it was) The roll on the ball was much better, it had more energy on the backend. It got through the hacked up front good with enough to cut through the carry down. I was playing 12-15 straight up - my coach was working tonight, and came down to see, says he notices something is looking better and your getting much more roll on the ball. After I eplained it to him....He just laughed, "we didn't have all this fancy equipment back in my days...blah blah blah, we had to learn it and store it in our brains...blah blah blah."
You just have to weed through his old school style, he's such a good guy, he doesn't give me many breaks - he pushes me so hard to define my game and get better every night. I agree with him, if you don't learn something every day, your wasting your time and his as he says it.
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