Jenkintown, Pa-May 9, 2009

After watching today's PCL Championships, I noticed many throwers seem to have little understanding of the javelin event.  So many of the young boys and girls are making so many mistakes throughout the throw.  There seems to be a lack of technical understanding of the event that is not being communicated to the athletes.  Javelin USA is here for everyone, coaches and athletes.  Please use us as a resource for any questions you might have.  Attend our clinics, send us emails, pictures, or videos of your throws and we will provide you with as much feed back as we can. 

I will do a better job of updating this site with tips to help improve your throwing. 

For the next few weeks, I will be breaking down the throw from the grip to the carry, drawback, crossover running, penultimate step, and hip and shoulder mechanics during the block and release.  Making the throw a series of movements for the athlete will improve the upper body position with the javelin, more efficiency in the run, a better transition of speed into the throw, and allow for more energy to be trasferred to the implement. 

Please check in with us from time to time for updates and email us as often as you'd like with your questions and I will post the answers here. 

Train hard and throw far!