11-22-19 10:46 AM - Post#890626    

https://www.stack.com/a/why-every-football- lineman-should-also-throw -shot-put

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Re: Yup!
11-22-19 10:57 AM - Post#890627    

What about golfers?

https://waxgolf.com/2018/08/22/modern-gol f-now-using-the-shot-put- as-their-swing-model/

I've often wondered about taking up throwing as cross-training for golf. And because it looks fun.

11-22-19 02:39 PM - Post#890635    

It occurs to me, twenty three years later, I'd have been a better shot putter if I threw with my left arm.

11-24-19 08:35 PM - Post#890747    

This remind's me of Calvin's arguments in The throwing Madonna (and probably articulated by many others in other places as well), that as much as there is a stong evolutionary story about humans as the running ape, we are also the throwing ape.

http://www.williamcalvin.com/bk2.html

11-25-19 08:56 AM - Post#890760    

Thank you for that link. That's an interesting place.

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Yup!
11-25-19 08:18 PM - Post#890775    

• Dan John Said:

Di nada

Getting even more tangential, I did a Gada (mace swinging) workshop recently...

I'm not a thrower or even much of a sportsperson.

I was amazed at how much of my centre I felt the next day - I wasn't overwhelmingly sore, but I had a profound sense of the whole core (front, back, sides, top and bottom) being a little bit worked.

My broscience/ Danxplanation of this is that the Gada mimics the sorts of movements you would make in throwing.

Edited by Dan Christensen on 11-25-19 08:19 PM. Reason for edit: No reason given.

11-25-19 09:14 PM - Post#890777    

Prolly, yeah...

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