okay hey everyone we're going to start ramping up a little bit more on these breakdowns and they're
going to be very very helpful for everybody both on the throwing side as well as on the speed
side so today we're going to break down that frost prescod the thing that I think is really
interesting about deck Prescott is he has a very much a baseball style release and so just being
able to look more into that and show why that is and then also so shows some of the things that
you know come from that as well as what are some things to work on so one of the things with that
that baseball release and I've seen this type of throw before where you know I always talked about
being able to load back on that back leg as you start and then with that front leg really being
able to keep more weight off in print transfer for what he does is he has that long stride
which makes it so he leaned back more which still keeps weight back but in terms of his lower body
he shifts his weight forward very early during the throw and just has a lot of again and then this is
the thing I think is the most common repetitive thing that we see within these top quarterbacks
is how well they use their anterior oblique so you can see from the muscles of his right shoulder to
his left hips how well that area just spins and rotates from to create torque another thing that
we see is very common is that that left foot is very strong and very stable now you know
we want to usually not hyperextend in that front knee but because of how he creates force in that
long stride and keeping more of his way back he ends up having to create that because of how much
rotation his hips going through his leg ends up having to extend so that's what makes how it ends
up working out for him again he has that baseball type of release he had to been a pitcher back in
the day or you know maybe learn from a picture or something about how he's moving which is very very
related to how pitchers spin around that front leg so it definitely works out for them to have that
type of type of movement pattern obviously the thing with having that front leg straight is you
put yourself a little more at risk for front leg injuries and problems and then another thing that
ends up happening is that you end up leaning a good amount over to the left side as you're
coming through so you really need to have a good range of motion within both sides of your spine
in order to really benefit a lot from from this throw because as he's coming through the ends of
leaning a lot over to the left so you have to have a good anterior oblique system which is again the
muscles here going into the left hip this whole area right here that needs to be strong as well
as a lot of stabilization and control of that left lower spine okay so this is another angle
this angle now we can see more of how well he can he gets those tips involved right so you can see
how that whole left hip opens up and really sinks back and this is a big thing that we see within
golfers that you really need to be able to do is as you're bringing that rotation through you
don't extend with that hip too far forward you actually want to keep that hip back in a good
position as you're rotating around again he's got that big extension in that front leg and a lot
of rotation with that happening within the hip in that anterior oblique system a lot of times we try
to do is we try to create more external rotation within the left hip just because it's hard to be
able to get that type of range of motion that dak is able to get within that front hip that's very
unique thing you must have a forward femur in that front hip to be able to really push that hip back
as much as he does usually people stop about right there within there it has to be able to press back
he has a unique ability to really press that hip back a lot and now he throws that could because of
how he really generates a lot of force off of that front leg which would be very similar to like what
Aaron Rodgers does when he comes to the throw in generating a lot of force actually in that front
leg during throw and not only that back leg here's more from the side so we're going to get and see
that his hips and his throw one thing that he does a good job of is when he's loading he does a good
job of keeping that elbow above the ball so we can see even though the load starts out a little
bit low he doesn't waste any time he's getting up overhead he gets that elbow through pretty
quickly you could probably get that the nose of the ball turning a little a bit faster and
I would just quicken up his release a little bit and also I would say that he gets into a little
bit of hyperextension within that low back so eat and that's because he rides up a little bit early
so he might end up having some lower back issues and motor bike tightness just because he has that
early raise he could definitely work on getting a little bit more just how he throws he's as
much rotation in that front hip so he's going to end up working much more like the sagittal plane
front and back and so he's going to be sitting the hips and he's gonna have some lower back
tightness just because of the the things that he's doing within that that lumbo-pelvic region which
is that the connection between the hips and the lower back so being able to get a little bit more
range of motion there I think would would resist his chance of injury but you know overall that to
his breakdown right he we could see that he you know has some things that are again unique to him
I think one of the big things to take away like we started out earlier that you have to have a good
ability to create a large amount of force in your anterior oblique at system if you're going to be
a good quarterback and that's being able to really rotate hard and fast through the muscles from your
right shoulder to your left heads and building those muscles are you know are things that
really prevent a spine rotation so I know it is a movement where the spine is rotating fast right to
left but in order to actually build that up and you create the fast twitch muscles you want to
do that you know create rotation with from right to left but you also want to be able to very well
resist rotation from left to right both of those together are going to be key and really being able
to to develop that ability to rotate and we have exercises that go over that in our online series
so if you want to find out more about how to how to create rotation within your body we
have a quarterback video that goes into that or quarterback mechanics video that goes into that
and then we also have exercises that go into that as well so I'd highly recommend you checking out
that check out a whole page it's if you want to learn more it's at performance lab of California
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your game to the next level look forward to seeing you in our next breakdown thanks spike