hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be going over some of the
common mistakes that we'll see when pushing off with the back leg or start the video right now
all right so as many of you quarterbacks know the most important part of being able to create force
out of the lower body is going to start from how well we're able to generate force off of
the back leg and so today i'm going to go over some of the key mistakes that we'll see when
pushing off that back leg that i think really makes a big difference when it comes to really
generating a lot of power and really being a great quarterback right when it comes to being able to
throw the ball with a lot of force behind it you got to be able to really start from the lower body
the disassociation you're able to create within that lower body so we're gonna go ahead and go
through a couple of these mistakes here the first thing that i commonly see is just not having the
right distance within your base right and so when your feet are here one thing that doesn't
just makes it so it takes a lot longer for you to get the ball out of your hands but it also makes
it so the shift is a little bit shorter right because when you're here now even if i just take
a small step i could still get my hips around and everything to rotate faster and that's one
of the advantages of being a taller quarterback is that they already are going to have a wider base
because they're taller right but a lot of shorter quarterbacks what they do and there's even some
tall quarterbacks that actually make this mistake as well to get their feet too close together right
now when your feet are too close together now you don't really get to be able to create much
of a lateral push off right or you have to just work in the the lateral plane right you just
end up going here the key thing of being able to generate force here is that we got to be able to
push off that back leg in a way that makes it so we can push forward and rotate simultaneously and
that is a difficult thing to be able to really teach yourself how to do especially if it's
something that you're just getting used to doing so big thing you know two main things we went over
there one we got to widen out your base okay so if you're having trouble pushing off the lower
body using the lower body widen out your base the second thing is make sure that when you're pushing
you're pushing forward towards your target and rotating simultaneously right so it wants to
be that action okay and when you're doing that keep that front shoulder closed okay so this is
an important drill to be able to do in order to really help yourself in pushing off that back leg
okay now a common mistake right so that those are going to be two mistakes that we'll see
is that either somebody will try to most commonly we'll just see people trying to work in this plane
right and not really get any rotation into it we'll also see people that are just trying to
like rotate and will almost like stay back they won't push themselves forward
so that could be a mistake there it's like not working in in two planes right only
getting stuck and only working in one plane and then the other thing like i said was the base
and then the third mistake is going to be when pushing off that back leg really doing it in a
way that doesn't generate any type of you know forward momentum right and so what i mean by
that is like let's say we have a great base here uh mostly the time that we see this type of issue
it's not when people have a really good base we'll see it more often when people actually don't have
a good base so what we'll finally see here is that when they're pushing off they'll like push off to
the side and really let their foot go out here so the spine goes this way right and then the foot
goes out to this side or they'll like push their foot back right just not pushing with their their
big toe to make it so everything comes forward and that's an important note here i know i haven't
brought up the big toe yet that ends up really being the big thing is just not really utilizing
the big toe we got to get all of our weight onto that big toe and then push off and get full
extension off that big toe to really make it so now all of our weight ends up transferring forward
all right so that's going to be number three and then the last thing that we'll go over is gonna be
number four here which is that they're not getting great hip extension right so again when it comes
to pushing off we're gonna go from a place where my hip is flexed right you can see here my hip
is flexed and then when i push off i'm really extending my hip so i'm like squeezing my butt
okay i don't want to end up getting in a position where i'm just going here right or really just not
even allowing myself to fully extend my hip which is going to be you know really kind of sitting
back or like arching in the back or something like that really not allowing myself to again
shift my weight onto my front foot now there's a ton of things that could be happening within that
front leg that will prevent you from shifting all of your weight forward onto that front leg
right and so that could end up being a problem is that you don't have the right stability
or a mobility that might the right control of that front foot which is why you're not
pushing off the back leg but if you could just get a great understanding of how to utilize that
the big toe in that back foot the back hip the overall momentum working in two different planes
where you're pushing off and rotating as well as correcting your base those four things will
all add more velocity more throwing distance and more overall power to your throw so i'd say really
want to work on those things to be able to improve your overall throwing mechanics so i hope you like
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