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#6: Gill1918 presents Nels Hartshorn "How to Use Video for Throws Analysis" · The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast

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  OK, this is throws coach Nells and today I wanted to just go
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  over the techniques I use for reviewing videos.
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  And typically I'll get the videos from coaches or athletes,
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  they'll direct message me on X or Twitter and then I'll
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  sometimes I'll just look at the videos directly from the DM
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  because I I get the best quality that way.
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  I'm just not missing any frames. And usually I like to get a
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  video pretty much straight on, maybe at the waist level from
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  the back of the circle with what I call 12:00 and looking towards
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  6:00. So the back of circles at 12,
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  restarting and then the front of the circle is going to be 6:00,
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  which is the throwing direction. So we're talking about either
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  glide shot or discus or rotational shot put.
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  So if you get a video from the back, we can see the starting
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  point, some some really key positions.
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  And then also if you put the camera over on the 9:00 on the
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  looking from 12:00 to 6:00. If you put the camera over on
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  the 9:00 position right down the center of the circle, the center
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  line on the side, splitting the circle in half, looking towards
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  3:00 again about waist high. With both of those, you can
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  usually see everything you need to see to analyze the video.
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  So a lot of times I'll have to get a result back to the thrower
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  or a coach right away because maybe they're in practice right
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  now. So I'll try to take and look at
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  the video they sent me and just kind of drag the the scroll bar
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  on the bottom and then let the video kind of go frame by frame.
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  And I'll I'll click on maybe and stop the video at at certain
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  points. I like to look at the beginning
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  when the right foot just comes off the ground for the
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  rotational shot or discus, and then when they the sweep leg,
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  maybe when both feet are pointing towards 6:00 and then
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  again when the right foot lands and where the body positions are
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  and then continuing on when the left toes touchdown and then as
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  you go into the release. So having both of those views,
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  even looking at them side by side is really great.
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  If I have to make a video, I'll take the video that they sent me
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  and a lot of times I'll just open up my two screens at home
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  and on the right side I'll use the software OBS and I'll just
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  try to capture the entire video. I learned I have to change the
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  the rate on it. They call it let's see output,
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  they call it the video bit rate. I just, I set mine to 4500 KPPS
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  and with that, I've noticed I don't lose any frames.
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  So I'll record and I'll copy the video from the direct message on
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  the the OBS. And from the OBS, I'll open up
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  my another piece of software called Kenovia that's free
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  download and the Kenovia software, I'll be able to scroll
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  through the video forwards and backwards.
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  And also it allows me to put arrows and lines on there too.
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  And then I can change the thickness of the lines or the
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  color of the lines to help out. And sometimes if I want to just
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  do a still shot, I'll just, I'll use the keyboard and I'll do a
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  snapshot of the screen and I'll move it over to a PowerPoint
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  presentation. And the PowerPoint I will have
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  open and I just kind of look at it.
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  And from there I can size it how I want.
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  And then I can also just post the picture really quickly and
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  respond back or I can use those photos.
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  If I want to open up another program, which is a Windows
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  Movie Maker, I'll use that too. And if I have several videos,
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  that's I'll end up doing that. Sometimes the throwers will send
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  me more than one video. So I'll open up the Windows
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  Movie Maker and sometimes I'll take some snapshots photos and
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  I'll embed them in between some of the videos to kind of show
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  them key positions. So the Movie Maker is pretty
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  good. So those are all the software's
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  I use and those are all the techniques are pretty much used.
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  But for me, I'm looking at as to what I'm looking at when I'm
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  reviewing a video, I'm looking at the combinations and and the
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  connections between body parts. Say, for instance, coming out of
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  the back of the circle, I'm watching how the discus, say, or
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  the rotational shot of the left arm and the right leg are moving
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  together in coordination. So the left arm's not just being
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  thrown out there with it and leaving the right leg behind and
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  then some other as the right leg comes down and you wanted to
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  hook back in back toward the 9:00 to 12:00.
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  You want to see all that left arm is also working together
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  like an accordion. So I'm looking to those
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  connections. I'm also trying to see when the
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  right foot lands. Are they landing with a high
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  heel or is it flat? Are they leaning forward?
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  Are they vertical or they're leaning back?
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  Do they have an arch in their back?
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  So you pretty much you have to look at everything.
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  I even look at when I can see it.
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  I'll look at how they're gripping the discus.
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  I want to see that they're grabbing it with just the the
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  pads on their fingers and that on the into the first joint and
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  going through. I look at the release.
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  I like to see at the release. Nice.
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  If they show it a nice even flight with not a lot of wobble,
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  maybe the right side down a little bit so that as it flies
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  and it'll eventually turn over to the left, you want to delay
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  that as long as possible. So you can get a lot of
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  information out of the videos that my problem is when I was
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  coaching, say high school or the college, I couldn't see a lot of
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  these things. I'd have to videotape it and
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  then stop and review it in between because it happened so
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  fast. You're anywhere from one to two
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  seconds going across the ring. So I don't know, some coaches
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  are able to do it. I, I was never able to, but I
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  was always able to have it videotaped and try to break it
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  down. So you get immediate feedback.
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  Sometimes that's tough when you have more than one thrower and
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  you're, you know, the next one's up again and you haven't
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  reviewed the first video. So another thing I look for is
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  consistency. You want to make sure watch the
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  same person. I did this just the other day.
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  I was at the end of the track watching a kid throwing the shot
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  put with his grandfather and I told him I used to coach here.
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  He said, oh, give him some tips. I said, well, I'm watching him
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  right now to make sure he's consistent.
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  Everything he does is the same because you really can't change
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  anything if they're doing different things every time.
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  So that's just one experience of when you're actually work,
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  working with the person, you, you want him to be consistent
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  every time. And then you'll develop those
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  those habits with them as you know, you review their videos or
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  review them and coach them and get them to be more consistent
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  and hit those positions. Another thing, I always like to
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  start from the back of the circle to the front because
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  anything you change at the back may change things later on at
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  the front. So it's best to maybe just work
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  on things from the back of the circle, the entry, and if
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  there's other problems after that, they may sometimes fix
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  themselves. So you start the back of the
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  circle, make sure everything's right on the entry and the
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  shifting over to the left for the discus or the rotational
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  shot, making sure they're balanced.
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  So OK, well, I guess that's all I had.
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  Mike asked me to do a podcast here for him.
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  So I I'm e-mail obligation for you, Mike.
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  Anyway, I'm throws coach Nels. If you just Google that, you'll
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  see I've got well over 300 videos on YouTube.
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  So come subscribe and say hello and thanks very much.
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  Hey gang, Mike Cunningham here. Hey, I hope you enjoyed this
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