hey what's up everyone morey croson here from the performance lab of California and we have
a new video for you today on that Prescott and his one what though he did on Sunday night this
has been getting a lot of attention overall in the the quarterback world a little bit of a funky type
of a warm-up but we want to go over some of the things that are good about it some of the things
that you want to be careful about and just give you some overall better information about you know
what what is going on with the throw warm up dance you know there's a lot of memes there's a lot of
different things that are going on that are that are kind of funny so anyway the big focus is the
focus on the the hip and shoulder disassociation so what that means is that as he's you'd see that
as he's going in and really getting those hips to pull around right he's really keeping those the
shoulder pulled back and and the concept of the hip and shoulder disassociation was really made
famous by Tom house who is Tom Brady's quarterback coach Drew Brees quarterback coach I mean I think
there's a lot of guys that have hopped on the bandwagon since then but those were like the
two main guys that started he was actually more of a baseball guy first baseball guru
he talked a lot about this this hip and shoulder disassociation where the hips are going one way
and the shoulders are going the other way and there's a certain amount of stretch that puts
on the core here and if you can achieve certain levels of certain angles of disassociation it
really helps you in developing overall velocity and and it seems like what doc is working on is
a combination of really being able to maximize his force how much force is able to generate and
also a combination of how fast it will generate that force right because he's really trying not
to step too much as he's going he just wants to be able to immediately get that hip going to make
it so he can create that rotation and still load in his in his arm right and so what I would just
be careful in when you're doing this this type of a drill is making sure because I all see this as
well where guys have that push off that back leg and you know they're really trying to get the hips
to open up the issue is is that if there's not very much overall forward movement during the
throw then the drill doesn't work as well as if you do get forward movement during the the
thrower during the drill so what I mean by that is that he's already almost naturally getting it
because his body's moving forward but when he's pushing himself see how he pushes right there
and see how his hips move forward okay that means that he's actually shifting his weight forward so
he's using this back leg to push his weight this way if you just try to pivot this back leg so go
from here to here and you don't actually push and get any weight going there now the overall
drill becomes significantly less valuable as a warm-up for a quarterback so you really want to
be able to focus on you know really pushing your weight and get generating that that force off the
back leg that's I would say is one of the biggest things that I see with quarterbacks is that they
just don't generate very much force off that back leg and it's just because of how the the limit of
just being able to push off there the right way I think that he does a good job of kind of pivoting
and pushing his weight forward but you could also see how stable he is on this front leg as he's
pushing right so he's gonna be very very strong here and then the next thing would that would
end up happening in the sequence obviously is that he would come up and over with the throw and you
want to really be able to sync this up correctly where you're getting your hips to come around and
not very long after with with quote with sorry with pictures you have a little bit more time
where you can get those hips to kind of go around and you can put a little bit bigger stretch on on
the upper body and then throw from there there's a couple reasons for that one is that you know as a
pitcher you don't really you're not impacted very much from a timing perspective or you can kind of
take as long as you need to to get the ball out your hands as a quarterback you don't really have
that luxury the other thing is that they are coming from a mound so when they're stepping
they're stepping downwards like this where as a quarterback you're on an even surface so you're
not going to be able to step in as as down as much downwards or downwards really at all your
honor even surface so those are some of the the reasons why you're able to get a little bit more
disassociation and also a lot bigger step right as quarterback there's only so big of a stuff you
can get again because of that decline that you get there so really being able to get that that
front foot down on the ground and then from there being able to get that that push because notice
how it gets that front foot down and then now he's pushing and once you get those hips to come around
point being is from the sequencing process once you get those hips to come around not very long
after your elbow should be coming up and through ok so right now he's over exaggerating his hip
and shoulder disassociation but when he actually throws he doesn't have this big of a separation
because you know just wouldn't work out timing wise so if you do too much of this where you're
you're too far open with your hips and your elbows too far back behind you essentially where he's at
right now you would actually be starting to be to do damage to your actual throw so as you start to
open those hips up right here your arms should be coming through to deliver the throw especially if
you're throwing underneath when you're throwing those deeper routes you can get away with a little
bit more hip and shoulder this disassociation but just remember that that you want to be able to be
in sync with that back foot till then push off and get your weight going and your momentum going with
lower body and then not very much after you get the rotation happening in the core and then you
get the ball to come up overhead so there's that whole sequence of movements that want to happen in
order to maximize your throw alright if you guys have any questions let me know we'll be happy to
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and rolling all right guys there's always stage for watching these videos and we'll talk soon