Monday, January 13, 2014

Film - Dustin

This film is for Dustin - we were working on a few things this day - making space initially, and then realigning. He was cutting his swing short, dropping his legs and "flinging" horizontally off the pole - this film is of one of the jumps where he was working on continuing that swing up the pole.

The critical piece that you missed here, on this jump, Dustin, was the initial connection to the pole. Notice that when the pole impacts the box - its movement stops, and you just absorb it all. You need to be making that initial push to move the pole to vertical before going elastic. Space FIRST! Rememeber 1,2,& 3... that was just 2&3! You did it better on some earlier jumps before you started working on completing the swing.. but at the last practice session this was exactly the problem... need to get this initial connection better.