I didn’t play any sports growing up and my kids are in it now. I hear a lot of talk about “following through” and “follow through”. Throwing a baseball, shooting a basketball, golf swing, hockey, swinging a bat.
In these cases the ball / item has already left or has been hit so why is follow through important? Does it have an effect on the initial release / impact?
In: Physics
Follow through is important because it guarantees that you accelerated all the way through the task. If you don’t follow through, it is common to find that the deceleration happened a split second before the hit/shot/swing/throw.
Not following through means you’re using muscle to stop your movement. That resistance often happens too early. It’s hard to control and hard for the thrower to know/feel exactly when the deceleration started.
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