That's some sp ... uh ... javelin-throwing

It could also be that by dialing it back a little his form was much better and that improved his throw that much.

 

He did it on his second throw and took the rest of the night off. And his first throw was 20 feet better than anyone else.

 

Wow. Just wow.

 

Here he is throwing 297 earlier this year.

 

Greer is a super guy. A bit of a wild man, but a great, great guy. He competed in the Athens Olympics with a torn ACL.

 

Kinda lousy coverage there. just the throw, nothing in flight or where it landed.

 

I'm still waiting for it to load, third time I've clicked on it, waited two minutes each.

 

Some of us may remember my old HS teammate as well - he won a Big 10 title at Penn State eight years or so ago. He was throwing 220ish then; I was 100 or so feet behind. (And just because some people are born with unreal athleticism, he's the same guy who won the World Long Drive championship a few years back.)

Shotty, the link you gave didn't want to load for me, but I watched a few of his others. It seems weird - not only from him, but from some of the other world-class guys - that we were always taught to throw with a much higher elbow, say nose level or so.

These guys have a much lower elbow which, I want to say, decreases the whip. But the arm speed is incredible.

God how I miss watching javelin.

 

Were the specs of the javelin changed a while back so it wouldn't go as far and did that necessitate a new set of records?

 

They were changed, but I don't know the specifics.

I think the main checkpoint for the top throwers now is to be planted at the time of the throw -- a right-hander's left foot is already down, and it leads into the buggy-whip.

At the time I threw, we were just to concentrate on the javelin following its own path at a 45-degree angle. Some of these guys are setting up considerably higher than that.

 

Are you talking about Greer? I thought he went to Northeast Louisiana.

 

No...sorry for the confusion.

My teammate was Carl Wolter.