For most of my career, an athlete had to be at SMU to be coached by me. Today, thanks to video, that’s no longer true — and the results have surprised even me. Here’s how coaching throwers online actually works, and why a screen is sometimes better than the side of the ring.

You film, I see what you can’t

A thrower can’t watch their own block, their own finish, the half-second where a discus throw is won or lost. I can — and on video I can watch it again, frame by frame, at quarter speed, as many times as it takes. In a live practice that moment is gone in an instant. On film it’s permanent. That single fact is why remote analysis can be more precise than standing trackside.

The same eye that produced 20 Olympians

The mechanics of the shot, discus, hammer, and javelin don’t change because the coaching is online. The corrections I’d give an Olympian are the corrections I give a sixth grader — scaled to where they are. What you’re paying for isn’t proximity. It’s the eye, the diagnosis, and the plan to fix it.

Consistency beats intensity

The athletes who improve fastest aren’t the ones who train hardest for a week. They’re the ones who send film consistently and apply one correction at a time. Throwing is a technical event. Small, correct changes — repeated — are how records fall.

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