I'm Coach Ramiro Mosquera. I coach the Del Norte High School boys team and club players in Carlsbad, and I run a small-group shooting lab out of my home pool. I built Wapo Skool because the questions players ask me on deck deserve better answers than a shouted cue, and the answers deserve to live somewhere other than my text messages. Ask here about: your shot, your position, your training week, what to do at home, what you saw in a game and did not understand. No question about shooting is too basic. Most "basic" questions are the ones nobody ever answered properly. Every question gets an answer. Short ones get answered in the thread. The big ones come to the weekly live Q&A, where I can show you instead of telling you. Seed question, answered day one (from the Lab parent notes, 14U Session 1): Q: My son's shots keep getting blocked or sailing from a low release. His arm looks strong. Why does his release stay low? A: Because release height is made below the waterline, and the arm gets blamed for the legs' work. A release is low for one of three reasons, in the order I check them: 1. The base is low. If the eggbeater is not driving him up, he shoots from down in the water and the release starts a foot lower than it should. Check the base first, always (Lesson 1.2.4). 2. The elbow drops in the load. He starts in a good position, then the elbow sinks as he loads, and the whole throw rebuilds itself from a hole (Lesson 1.2.2). 3. He releases on the way down. The leg drive peaks, he waits a beat too long, and the shot leaves after the height is gone. Leap throw work (Lesson 1.4.4) trains the timing. Arm strength is rarely the cause at this age. Film one clip from the side and watch the elbow and the waterline, not the ball. Then post it in Form checks and I will tell you which of the three it is.

Welcome to the Film room. Every week we take one shooter, one game clip or one session, and we slow it down until it teaches us something. This week's study: a shooter who scores without ever looking open. Watch the clip twice before you answer. First watch: just enjoy it. Second watch: hunt for these three things, the same three questions I ask in Lab sessions: 1. What did the shooter decide before the catch? (The shot was chosen early. Find the moment.) 2. Where did the goalie commit, and what made him commit? 3. What did the shooter's legs do in the two seconds before the release? Post your answers with timestamps. The best breakdown gets opened up live at this week's film session, and we will add what the room found to the thread afterward. [RAMIRO TO ATTACH THE STUDY CLIP LINK BEFORE THIS GOES LIVE. A SHORT ELITE-SHOOTER CLIP; THE BREAKDOWN QUESTIONS ABOVE ARE THE SESSION.]

[CLIP FROM LAB SHOOT 1 OR 2 TO BE ATTACHED. RAMIRO TO POST BEFORE INVITES GO OUT.] What I see: The base is tall and the catch is clean. Watch the throwing elbow, though: it drops below the surface as the load starts, so the release ends up low and late, and the goalie gets a free look at it. The one fix: Elbow stays up from the ready position through the load. If it starts up, it rarely has to travel. Go back to: Lesson 1.2.2 (Elbow and Shoulder in Base Position), then Lesson 1.4.1. Run this week: Twenty slow shadow reps checking the start position, then your normal shooting. Post the follow-up clip in this thread in seven days and we compare. That is the depth of feedback every form check gets here. Post yours.

Post a clip, get a correction. To make the correction worth having, film it this way: - Side angle, on your throwing-arm side, phone at deck height (or pool edge at home) - Whole body and the goal in the frame, about five meters away, no zoom - Three reps at full effort. Keep the misses in. The misses are where the correction lives - In your post, say which course and lesson you are on, and what you were trying to do What happens next: Coach Ramiro replies in the thread with one primary fix (one, on purpose; a list of five fixes fixes nothing), the lesson to revisit, and the drill to run. The strongest form checks each week get reviewed live in the Q&A. Do not edit your clip down to your best rep. Coaches cannot correct a highlight reel.

Win: First Lab group of the season ran the crossbar challenge as their finisher, and a player who arrived shooting flat from the water hit the bar three times in the final round, tall, on a called corner. What I trained: Course 1, Lessons 1.2.1 and 1.5.1. Base first, corner called before the shot. Proof: [CLIP OR PHOTO FROM LAB SESSION 1, POSTED WITH THE FAMILY'S PERMISSION. RAMIRO TO ATTACH BEFORE THIS GOES LIVE.]