Character throw to another character (off-screen)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUDbumayKs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtiME0_9ZB8

In this Stop-motion exercise the brief was to animate a puppet throwing a ball or punching another puppet, I chose to animate the throw. Once again I animated this exercise twice, but in this case it was due to the throw not looking the way that I wanted to in the first attempt. I wanted to aim for the puppet to throw in the style of a cricketer but watching the first one I feel that the end action doesn't look right and the puppet crouches to catch the ball too quickly. Due to this I tried animating the throw once more and I think that the motion is better though the puppet was stiff when animating. Overall, however I am fairly please with how both of these attempts turned out, though not perfect.