The Importance of Experimenting With the System

A number of years ago, my good friend of mine, Derek Ealy, he was coaching Dylan Armstrong and they would come out to California and do a training camp. And so I'd watch him do it and Dylan had extremely good results from it. So I said, you know what, I don't try or do anything unless I really understand it. He went from 10 meters, his freshman year to 14 meters, his sophomore year, which is a huge jump,. And then we really understood how his system worked and how his pattern worked. The first meet I had, I threw over 18 meters. Then I threw a lifetime best. After one year, he threw 16 meters in the