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THE GENUFLECT DELIVERY

ADDED FEATURES: TAKEOUT DELIVERY MODE

To gain takeout slide delivery speed, you must use more of the body's mass x acceleration force.

This is accomplished by pulling the slider foot/ leg rearward about 1/3 of a step.

The body will also move slightly back.

The combination of this rearward body motion AND a fast

Fig. 2.15 drop/push will give you the acceleration for takeout speed up to and including "peel" velocity.

THE SLIDING FOOT/LEG is your "leg drive leg" and NOT your hack foot leg.

You will "feel" an increased pressure on the hack foot as you accelerate the slider leg.

This pressure is the equal and opposite force from the sliding leg accelerating.

DO NOT increase this force by pushing out with the hack foot!

If you use hack foot push out, you will cause the body to rotate.

If you have watched the pros in The Briar who use hack foot push instead of slider foot acceleration, you will notice how they must throw the trailing leg to the side to compensate for rotational thrust.

They cannot slide out very far -- only to or beyond the hogline.

The slide is reduced because they are fighting the rotation by applying friction with the trailing foot to maintain line of sight slide.

Naturally the slide is a mess and they compensate with arm boost or "pullback" for weight control and turn in/out for line control. How did they get good enough to play in The Briar?--BY SPENDING YEARS/THOUSANDS OF HOURS practicing and trying to outwit Mother Nature's Laws.

WEIGHT CONTROL/SLIDE SPEED TIMING

The beginner will simply have to push the rock over and over.

Practice the step out first while delivering the rock and later the slide. Club level delivery timing will come with practice.

HITTING THE BRUSH TARGET line is the most important first learning step.

Now for the "would be" professional, hire a person to time you Fig. 2.16 from back-line to hogline or DO IT YOURSELF!

With the two handed delivery, you can time yourself to hogline release.

HOW, with your own timer as shown in figure 2.16.

You say, "What good will that do?" None, unless you relate the slide time to ice speed/conditions.

Now, we are back to the hundreds of hours of practice.

YOU CAN LEARN to time yourself back-line to hogline in your head providing "PRECISION ROCK PLACEMENT."

Using your manual timer over and over reinforces you're "in the head" timer such that in the game when your blusher says, "The ice is keen. Throw 3.8 seconds." You can literally count out in your head as you slide, "1, 2, 3 seconds, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8 seconds"-- release. If you are at the hogline on release, the rock will travel within 2 feet of the called for spot!

If you are at 4.0 seconds, you're light. Apply 2 feet of "finger boost." If you're at 3.6 seconds/

heavy, delay the release while using toe brake. EASY, right?