Hi everyone morey croson here from the performance lab of California and we have another new
breakdown for you today on Cam Newton if you guys have been following this channel here for a while
you know that I am a Carolina Panther fan and as a parent Carolina Canada fan I'm obviously super
interested in what's going on with Cam Newton and his new throwing motion here going into this
season so this one on the on the right here is a throw from just the other day at training camp
and then this one at on the left is from his 2017 2018 highlights from a couple years ago
so we're gonna just compare these break them down take a look to see what are some things that have
changed so you know when you just see him going through his normal throw it really stands out
is that he's really trying to drive his elbow a lot more during the throw he's not leaving that
that arm back and really opening up that front shoulder as much and really putting again a bigger
focus on really driving through with that with that elbow but here during live game obviously
that's all this is gonna be a little bit more of what his tendencies are gonna be so I'm definitely
interested in seeing what those are and you know hopefully giving you guys some more information
about it so you know big thing that I see is with his original Drive with that front leg he's really
driving a lot more towards a target right so here you could see how he step in there or here he's
really stepping off to the side and as he stepped me off to the side he really opens up a lot with
that with the front part of his body and I mean this is a different throw this one's gonna be a
little bit more to the left where this one's a little bit more straight ahead so that's gonna
have an impact there but even as he's coming through you could see he's driving his elbow a
lot more as he's coming through and he's going a lot more upwards with his overall I mean you
could see the overall position of his body yeah he was still in that type of shape before but
right now he's going more of that type of a route before or now it looks like he's going much more
upright during that throw and really has I mean he's always had a pretty release but you could
see that he really is driving that elbow pretty high up as he's going to throw in you could tell
you know really it looks like you put a big big focus on what he's trying to do at the Depot cuz
he even look with that front leg you can see how his front foot before he was very planted on that
front foot right you can see that the whole front foot is basically on the ground there where he or
he's his toe is barely you know his the only thing that's touching the ground so he's a lot
more lifted as he's going through the actual throw which you know all these things are just going to
impact how the overall force is going to be right so if you're here opening up a lot more during
you the throw like we're seeing how we did before that is gonna put a lot more shoulder much a lot
more pressure on the pack and you know I was gonna give you guys a little bit more information about
what the actual injury was with the orthoscopic or arthroscopic surgery and what essentially
that does or what they usually do when they go in for those is heal up any damage that's been going
on within the rotator cuff maybe within like the pack the bicep tendon just by you know putting in
a couple of incisions and they could even make it so they like reattach the scapula or attach
the scapula a little bit more to like the spine if that needs to be done so essentially what it
is it's a it's a surgery for the rotator cuff and so by him getting a little bit more upright
here during the throw he's just taking him to a pressure off the rotator cuff he's putting a bore
pressure on the lats he's putting more pressure on on the you know the pecs more the bigger muscles
which you know a lot of times are not as focused on during to throw a lot more times it is the
rotator cuff that's gonna be you know what's the the primary activator when you're throwing and
and so when you're getting more what's called horizontal adduction when you're bringing your
elbow inwards that's gonna use more of your PEC so what he's doing with with that surgery he's really
trying to get more PEC activation right and really and again it looks like when he's going through
the deep all he's trying to keep everything a little bit more facing straight ahead rather
than getting as rotational to take a little bit of a pressure you know off of the elbow joint which
puts a little bit more whenever you're putting a good amount of pressure on the elbow joint
your rotator cuff a lot of times has to stabilize that so you know that's that looks like what the
processes here obviously I don't know what are the all the background parts behind it I mean
I could get a little bit more into those type of surgeries I guess and give some more information
there you know I just wanted to get make this as easy to understand as you can I know it would help
to get some some visuals but you know some of the things that again change how he's stepping with
that front leg right how he's rotating within his body and the release point within that arm okay
so now he's gonna get a lot more vertical he's gonna put a lot more of this type of motion into
the ground rather having as much of that type of motion in the ground which you know to me I think
is better I think that's gonna end up helping out a lot I don't know who you know helped him
with his you know overall mechanics but again I think it's gonna help him and hopefully take a
lot of strain and make it so you play for a few more years I love them as a panther and you know
excited to see how these next few years unfold as always guys thanks for watching if you guys
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