New Delhi: Olympic Champion Javelin Thrower Neeraj Chopra has improved most shortcomings in his technique and now effort is to maintain a technical “stability” to touch higher heights in the coming years, said his coach Klaus Bartonietz.
Chopra began working with Bartonietz in 2019 after undergoing successful surgery and German bio-mechanics said even though the young man did not have a big shortage but still needed attention.
“Speed ​​run-up, (no) blocking in the correct body position and ‘hurry’ into a throw as a strong young athlete …
this is the shortcomings I found (at the beginning).
Follow must be more advanced than it.
, “Bartonietz told PTI in an interview from his home in Germany.
“I made him understand and he began to understand the right way.
There was nothing dramatic.
The release angle must be right, you need to know aerodynamics if you want to throw further.
We have to do step by step to develop.” No doubt, there are improvements that we have made.
There are shortcomings but we have done it.
“Asked whether there was no technical shortage now, Bartonietz said,” We must work all the time for the technique and continue and make it stable.
“” You might do it well during training but during the competition of a different mental condition.
If you want to do the same thing you have done during training, you must be calm (during the competition) and confidence.
“The Germans said the good thing about Chopra was that he was an all-round athlete he could run, jump and do other exercises well.
He said when he took Chopra under his wing in 2019, he knew that Haryana Lad said to be a thrower Top in the world.
“I’m sure, everyone does it because some people do it well at the junior level but it’s obsolete later.
But he will go in a sophisticated way (after becoming a world junior champion).
So, everyone believes he has a bright future.
“During the buildup to the Olympics, Chopra has said that he tried to throw a more flat javelin when the high spear projectile reduced closed distance.
Asked about this, Bartonietz said,” Javelin must go far and not high.
Most of the athletes at the Olympics threw high Javelin.
It’s not our business to fix it but yes it’s the right thing to try and throw flat.
“Chopra topped the qualification in front of the German Vetter Johannes, who came to Tokyo as a favorite of gold medals but finished ninth, and Bartonietz said that winning gold has never been a realistic target.” Depending on what other people do (in the final), there is an opportunity Real to win silver or bronze, but not gold.
No one thinks of gold, “he said.” When you are so much fixed with gold.
If you think like I have to win gold, I will win gold, then most of this will not happen.
If you enjoy what you do, and if you do your best, a medal or gold medal will come.
“Chopra came with a big throw in his first effort in the qualifying and final round, and Bartonietz said it was always part of the plan.” It’s his intention and logical too.
You want to surprise your opponents and show them that I am a competitor.
Everyone wants to do this.
“You can’t save your best throws consciously until the end.
You don’t know whether you will make the first three.” Chopra only took part in international competition only before the Olympics and Bartonietz said the number of events would be more next year but there would be no “overdoing”.
Asked for the ideal number of competitions before the Olympics, he said, “About six competitions.
We have Portugal, Karlstad and Quortane, we can have it in Sweden in Upsala but then we don’t take part.” There must be a problem for it to get a visa to England and there is this fear for you may have to go to quarantine when you come from India.
He competed more than last year.
Next year there will be more competition but not excessive.
“Bartonietz said the Chopra season was over and children did not participate in any competition this year, including in the remaining legs of the Diamond League.” No, he has missed it (diamond) league).
The season is over.
He needs training in the next two-three weeks.
I will return to India around the end of September or early October.
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