what's up everyone morey croson here from the performance out of California and we have a
new breakdown for you today it is on Tom Brady and really the comparison of the golf swing and
throwing a football as a quarterback Tom Brady is a guy that is a fairly avid golfer and so
and also a fairly avid quarterback as well it's a joke there um and so what I thought would be
interesting as being able to show how the transfer and the load and how some of the things that you
deal with with the golf swing also are things that are transfer over into the the throw the
quarterback and what are some things that actually don't transfer over to the throat as a quarterback
so we'll go ahead and get right into it obviously we've done this breakdown here shown this video of
Tom Brady a few times so we know it's on on the left well start what kind of load and you could
see how how Tom Brady loads back and you know obviously there's there's a step here and and
what happens that's the biggest difference is that you could see the initiation of the weight
coming forward right so so you could see how right here when he's shifting his weight forward keeping
his front shoulder closed and really trying to open up that front hip and then we'll go and see
with the golf swing you know you can see that the loads different right this with this load
right so he's already trying to get like some of his weight forward here we're on this side he's
really far back alright you could see all of his weights on that that right leg we're here I mean
he initiates it on the the right leg but even on this it's almost like more of his weight is
on the inside part of his foot or at least the middle part of his foot were here he's all the
way on to the outside part of his foot and then as he initiates through you could see that it's
really a lateral movement and and it's very hard stop within that that front hip right there's not
like a big continual rotation he's transferring forward and then lifting upwards on that front
Legg we're here he's rotating and really using the back way by foot to be able to push that
weight forward we're here he's really using more of just the the counterbalance of his
overall weight shift right so he's just leaning from the outside part of his right foot into
the inside part of his right foot okay here he's pushing off his back leg and then as he's going
you can see how he's not as hard stop trying to get vertical on that left leg he's keeping that
leg bent and he's trying to get rotation within that hip okay so as he's trying to rotate there
now he's allowing there to be a little bit more of a consistent momentum shift right so this is
a little bit longer overall movement the golf swing is not as long as a little bit longer of
a load but in terms of actual power production it's very very quick and very short so you can
see big stop there and then as he comes through after he makes contact that's when he starts to
really rotate through and that's where you get some similarities in terms of how that
back leg looks right and how the overall you know T spine or mid-back is rotating you know
started to get some see some similarities there and then from the finished perspective so now
we can see this the actual throw now we can see what the finish is you know here you could again
see some similarities right where you know here he's a little bit more on the a little bit more
again balance where he's a little bit more on the outside part of the foot you could see that he's
a little bit more straight up with the golf swing in comparison to here where he's able to you know
he's rotated all the way through with the spine and you know so there's a few things that I think
are important just because I like the ability to utilize the golf swing in order to improve from a
quarterback perspective and I think what you could really do is really work on your ability to just
shift that way to light I see a lot of guys that struggle with what he does here with that with
his golf swing where he's all the way back on his back leg and then shifts that weight for under the
front light now you know I know when I go golfing I'm not as hard of a stop there I think this is a
little bit more of the professional way to do it how he's doing it I'm not as hard of a stop I try
to allow there to be a little bit more rotation as I'm coming down and that I think helps me in
transferring over into being able to throw well as a quarterback is just being able to load all
the way up on that back leg and really transfer that weight forward on that front layer you you
and see how he's really pushing off that back that back leg as he actually hits the ball to
make it so then he's able to generate force here you know he doesn't he doesn't not able to load as
much right he can't take as much overall force but he's still able to use the ability to push
off that back leg to create momentum to get his weight forward so now he gets to use a lot more of
that that bottom half right so he's using that in order to generate force where a lot of us or a lot
of quarterbacks I see they just really struggle in being able to create force in the lower body which
is where the beginning of the problems that end up happening if you can't create force on your lower
body now you're gonna be able to you know you're putting yourself a lot more susceptible to having
overuse problems you know trying to throw the ball to too much with like the shoulder they're
gonna have elbow stuff you're gonna have shoulder stuff you're gonna have PEC stuff you know you're
just putting yourself a little bit more risks have upper body problems if you're not able to
use the lower body as effectively so and I would just think of that as a overall you know feedback
is that if you're using too much of your upper body then that's when you're gonna be feeling a
lot more soreness in that upper body so just make sure you keep a good range of motion there and
also make sure you're working on improving your overall mechanics to make it so you're you're not
putting yourself more susceptible to injury and a lot of guys right now that going into the season
and so you know that could be having some some soreness some fatigue some problems with their
their throwing arm and I would just think about how can you improve the use of the the lower body
in order to make it so that doesn't end up being a consistent problem for you moving forward all
right we do do throwing breakdowns we do have a program for you guys we obviously want to be able
to solve your problem the best you can't the best that we can so if you have any questions
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