Quote Originally Posted by Dave Ogilbee View Post
Ah, i've gotcha. Was just wondering because I always try my best not to overstep whenever I'm practicing.
See, the thing is that in Stones, you want to drive the stone out over, beyond the trig. If you cut yourself off, you lose a LOT of distance. You MUST hold on to the stone as long as you possibly can. So the way to internalize part of that motion is to do step-over drills. Make yourself hold on so long that you HAVE to step over. All the big shotputters do them, Brian Oldfield was famous for them.

Here's one of Ryan Viera's stone workouts...the front end of this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65cP4...eature=related

Notice that he does step-over drills.

I also do drop-and-pops, I do both step-over and non-step-over drills with my slowly developing glide/shuffle. My next weeks stones is going to be concentrating on actively, rather than passively clearing my upper body, and exaggerating the "stomp"-block of the left side to bring my hips around more quickly. All of these will be done without step-overs.