macca
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Post by macca on Jan 26, 2013 16:12:26 GMT -5
Warnie was a big unit in his heyday, big shoulders, thighs and those sausage sized fingers. I remember Philpott saying how it was warnes big body mass that allowed him to get away with a few step walk in. Macgill, like most other spinners has to get a lot from the run up. The first time most people saw warnie bowl at the very beginning they thought "geez whose this joker? He's not even trying, he'll never be any good"
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Post by jaythespark on Jan 26, 2013 21:57:32 GMT -5
that's interesting, in my opinion, warnie never had broad shoulders. I would think the big hands help and im not sure about the body mass bit macca. surely its all about rotation, not how fat you are. if it was about being fat, im onto a winner.
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Post by macca on Jan 27, 2013 1:29:22 GMT -5
I didn't say anything about fat, but in any biography and physical description of Warne it always mentions his big shoulders.
It only took me a minute to google up this description...."Warne was built like a nightclub bouncer not a spinner. Massive hands led into awe inspiring wrists, the whole lot powered by an ox's shoulders"
If you have read the biographies it is something that is always mentioned , the big shoulders and the theory, first put forward by his mum and dad, of how they might have developed from his childhood accident where he broke both legs and spent many months propelling himself around on a billy cart.
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Post by Someblokecalledave on Jan 27, 2013 14:02:53 GMT -5
Yeah, you've only got to look at some of the video footage of Warne he looks like bloke that should be carrying scaffold poles on a building site, not a wrist spinner, he's what I'd call stocky and that usually comes with good upper body strength - shoulders included.
"I had to spend a whole year of childhood using this trolley to get about on when I was eight, a boy at school had jumped down on me and somehow this caused me to break both my legs. At one point I was in plaster from the waist down. It wasn't a lot of fun at the time, but maybe all that wheeling around gave me the strength in my arms, wrists and shoulders that enables me to give the ball a big rip today".
Shane Warne - My Illustrated Career. Warne/Hobson/Benaud; Cassel Illustrated; London.
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Post by funk192 on Feb 6, 2013 4:43:53 GMT -5
How I missed this gem I don't know.
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Post by Someblokecalledave on Feb 6, 2013 16:38:05 GMT -5
Looks like a good-un, watching the highlights of Aussies v W-Indies at the minute, will have to come back to i t.
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Post by funk192 on Mar 16, 2013 12:25:33 GMT -5
Don't know if anyone has uploaded this yet, but I thought I'd do it anyway.
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Post by Someblokecalledave on Mar 16, 2013 15:09:58 GMT -5
Nice one, I think that's what happens when I bowl!
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Post by funk192 on Apr 24, 2013 18:24:07 GMT -5
Look at what I've stumbled across...the master at work here.
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Post by funk192 on May 28, 2013 23:20:28 GMT -5
Just look at the amount of dip warne get's in this compilation from 1997, especially the last wicket that has all topspin bowled from around the wicket. That is my favourite.
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Post by funk192 on Jul 4, 2013 6:50:22 GMT -5
Some footage I haven't seen before, 5:21 in there is a Leg Spinning Tute.
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Post by Someblokecalledave on Oct 28, 2017 17:31:45 GMT -5
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Post by Someblokecalledave on Jan 26, 2019 8:10:32 GMT -5
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