What it looks like
In the power position your weight is loaded over a bent back leg, your hips are coiled away from the direction of the throw, and the implement is held back. From here you drive up and across the ring to deliver.
The power position is the coiled, loaded stance a thrower hits just before delivering the shot or discus, with the weight back over a bent leg, ready to drive up and out. It is the moment the throw is won or lost. Here is what the power position is and why it matters so much.
In the power position your weight is loaded over a bent back leg, your hips are coiled away from the direction of the throw, and the implement is held back. From here you drive up and across the ring to deliver.
A strong throw comes from the legs and hips firing in sequence, and the power position is the loaded spring that makes that possible. Land in a weak or upright power position and the chain breaks before it starts.
The glide or spin exists to deliver you into a good power position with speed and balance. Many throwers focus on the entry but arrive in a poor position, which caps the throw no matter how strong they are.
The power position is a single, decisive frame. Film from the throwing side, the AI grades your stance and sequence and shows whether you are arriving loaded and coiled or upright and weak.
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The power position loads your weight over a bent back leg with the hips coiled away from the throw, ready to drive up and out.
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