Agreed. I seen a few of the Laois lads who hurled for London, Lancashire et al and they never owned a hurl before going out there.
Saw
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Aye, they’d have been as well off with one alright.
For Laois it’s
- Pick up hurl
- Bate hurl off man in neighbouring parish
- Bate hurl off man in own parish
- Drop off panel
- Go drinking
- Rejoin panel
- Hone skills
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Seems about right. You missed ride his sister.
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It is all relative, pucking a ball off a wall is absolutely beneficial especially if you varying what you are doing with the wall. You can pick out the lads fairly easily in a club who are doing that regularly do a bit extra with a wall rather than just showing up and training twice a week. But i find with a ball wall or whatever you are doing you only get out of it what you put into it, no different to any type of training, whether it involves cones and drills or small sided games.
I would assume that any intercounty hurler who is pucking off a wall isn’t just standing there for 30 minutes just leisurely and aimlessly hitting the ball off the wall.
To me his argument is bizarre - it would be like saying a 10kg dumbell won’t make you any stronger or better at lifting weights- sure if you are pricking around with it and doing the same thing with it at with minimal effort. A 10kg dumbbell along with other weights and equipment will definitely make you stronger and improve your technique.
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This is it exactly. He’s expanded his profile but only to be thought of as a spoofer.
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The Camross way. Allegedly.
It is you who say it, not I
One thing I will say is that I do think specific sliotars used for the hurling wall are a bit of a cod. Too forgiving for bad striking and not the same kind of touch as you get with a normal ball
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The Hurling walls are grand . Good for practicing co-ordination and keeping young lads out of mischief .
There are one element of good practice .
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Kev’s twitter account is gas
I meant the actual sliotars themselves
Yes . Even a tennis ball is great for co-ordination .
All in front of a camera, quelle surprise
Looking at brendan mahers video there about swapping the hurl across to handpass with your stronger hand. Am I correct that this only became a commonly used skill in the last 20 or so years?
did you at least do the decent thing and give this site a plug on each of those groups…
Once lads came on here then for a few minutes everything would become clear
You’re digging in like Kev here which is fairly apt. And just like Kev you are spectacularly wrong. Every half decent hurler in the country would spend time at the wall. It’s the equivalent of a golfer going to the range or the putting green.
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there was some inter county/anna geary/ physio/ broadcaster/ sports psychologist type hot bird got all technical with him about involunatary metabolic movement or something at one stage in the thread, kev hadnt a clue but he kept on replying to her requoting the keywords from her comments and saying why she was wrong…she was fairly seething id say but they kept it civil.
This morning he popped up some tweet along the lines of “great discussion yesterday everyone…” thanking fellas for contributing and how it was great there was now more awareness out there on different techniques after the discussion he facilitated… despite every single contributer dismissing what he said
the man is outstanding
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Drilling the ball against a wall for an hour or two is great for your co-ordination, movement and footwork. Improves your striking too obviously.
Complete nonsense to suggest it doesn’t help anyone, be they u-8’s to senior intercounty adult players.