Javelin

This unique series of videos offers athletics coaches a complete examination of proper mechanics and teaching strategies for each technical event in athletics. Each is composed of two parts: the first part is a full biomechanical video analysis by Coach Pfaff on a world class competitor. The second part is comprised of a videotaped training session of him working with an athlete in the same event discipline. This video focuses on javelin mechanics.

This video is a complete lesson on javelin mechanics and teaching progressions, from start to finish. In it Coach Ihalainen starts with approach mechanics and moves through the entire javelin mechanical progression up to and including the release and recovery actions.

In this classroom lecture one of the world’s top javelin coaches, Kari Ihalainen discusses javelin mechanics using some of the event’s greatest throwers as examples.

Highly respected Finnish sport scientist Dr. Jukka Viitasalo lectures on the biomechanics of javelin throwing.

Written By: M. Young

Sequences By: Helmar Hommel; Commentary By: Anders Borgstrom

Written By: Klaus Bartonietz, Russell J. Best, and Anders Borgstrom

Written By: Jorg Bottcher and Lutz Kuhl

Written By: Calvin Morriss, Roger Bartlett, and Neil Fowler

Commentary By: Fatima Whitbread; Photosequence By: Helmar Hommel