“After two weeks of drills and throws homework, my son improved 4 feet in the shot and 7 feet in the discus. He’s very motivated.”
Donna Wright · Throws parent · TCR MethodARETE THROWS NATION®
CHOOSE YOUR TCR® TRAINING PATH
Your first PR in 7 days or less.
Fifteen years. 11,414 throwers and coaches. One system built around balance, torque, speed and power. Academy, Method and Accelerator Camps all teach the same Throwing Chain Reaction® System. What changes is the level of coaching, access and hands-on support you need.
Coaching from as little as $0.81 a day. Less than a dollar, and less than almost anything else you spend on this season.
11,414+
ATHLETES TRAINED THROWERS AND COACHES TRAINED SINCE 2011
1000+
OF PERSONAL RECORDS SET BY THROWERS IN THE THROWING CHAIN REACTION® SYSTEM
100+
OF SCHOOL, DISTRICT AND STATE RECORDS BROKEN.
Built by Coach Erik Johnson, an NCAA All-American and Olympic Trials finalist in the discus, and refined across fifteen years and 11,414 throwers and coaches. The throwers who came out of this system have never been a one-off: Tyson Jones at 71'8¾", an Arizona state record that had stood sixty years; Matt Katnik at 72'3"; Nick Ponzio at 69'7". Behind them, hundreds of school, district and state records. One thrower is luck. A pattern is a system.
MOST OF WHAT'S COSTING YOU DISTANCE LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE GOOD TRAINING
Everything you're doing makes sense. That's the problem.
The drills look right, the cues sound right, and the effort was never the issue. You're probably better than your training is letting you be. Hard work in the wrong sequence doesn't just fail to help, it makes the wrong pattern permanent.
That's what the six pillars of the Throwing Chain Reaction® System are for. Balance and torque in the right order, so speed and power have something to travel through. All three paths below teach those same six pillars. What changes is who does the coaching, and how often we see your throw.
FOR COACHES
TCR System Academy
The complete Throwing Chain Reaction® System, laid out to coach from: video lessons, drill progressions and season programming you assign to your athletes. One live clinic a month where you bring your athletes' film and Coach Johnson breaks it down, plus a seat in the weekly Method technical session.
Get Academy for $0.81/day or pay quarterly at $67 a monthFOR THROWERS
TCR Method Program
Two live sessions every week. Wednesday is technical training, Saturday is live throwing. You also get the full Throwing Chain Reaction® drill progression and a strength program written for throwers. Built for athletes training solo, or with a coach who's told you straight that throws aren't their event.
Get Method for $49.50 or pay quarterly at $99 a monthIN PERSON · PHOENIX, AZ
Accelerator Throws Camp
Two days and ten hours in the ring with a group small enough that a coach is watching every rep you take. Posture and balance work, technical correction as it happens, and the Throwing Chain Reaction® System applied to your own throw in real time. You leave knowing exactly what has been costing you distance and why, plus the TCR shirt and training bands. Most athletes then pick up Method to get the full program and keep the coaching going.
See all camp datesSIDE BY SIDE
Academy is for coaches. Method and the Accelerator Camp are both for throwers, and they work together rather than instead of each other. Most camp athletes carry on in Method afterwards.
ARETE THROWS NATION® · ATHLETE RESULTS
SCHOOLS WHERE YOU WILL FIND OUR ATHLETES
You'll find Arete Throws Nation® athletes at universities across the country.
ARETE THROWS NATION® · REAL RESULTS
WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN IT WORKS.
Real families and real coaches, with the marks attached. Video testimonials from each camp format and from Method sit alongside these.
“My son was a state champ his senior season because of this system and the personal help of Coach Johnson. He’s now playing football at Nebraska.”
Coach Maciejczek · South Dakota · TCR System Academy“My daughter threw 41'6" and 113' in her first year of rotational shot and discus. It led her to the hammer, and she’s unofficially at 47m after two months.”
L. Williams · Dad and coach · TCR System“For five years I’ve coached multiple state placers, boys and girls, in both the discus and shot put. I plug it to every coach who asks me about my athletes.”
Coach Cisneros · Colorado · TCR System AcademyON VIDEO
Athletes and families who trained in the system, in their own words.
Watch the real video testimonials below.
60-DAY MONEY-BACK GUARNTEE.
IF YOU DON'T PR, YOU DON'T PAY.
Come to the Wednesday technical session and the Saturday throwing session, and do the assigned homework, for 60 days. If you haven't hit a personal record in that time, send us your session log and we'll refund the quarter in full.
60 days and not 30, on purpose. Thirty puts a decision on your calendar and turns your first month into an evaluation instead of a training block. 60 gives the work long enough to show up in the ring, which is the only thing either of us is actually interested in.
Not ready to pick one?
Join thousands of throwers and coaches who get our weekly throws tips, and start with the free mini-courses. No card, and you'll know inside a week whether the system fits how you train.
Other ways to work with us. A 6-Pillar video analysis breaks one of your throws down against all six pillars of the Throwing Chain Reaction® System. It's the fastest way to find out what is actually costing you distance. Private coaching is available for athletes who want one-to-one time with Coach Johnson.
