hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be talking about the wrist
position and how that makes a big difference in terms of throwing velocity throwing power
and overall throwing distance i'm going to start the video right now
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all right so i was going through some you know youtube videos instagram videos social media
stuff and really seeing a lot of quarterbacks that are completely screwing themselves in terms of
throwing distance or velocity or even any type of exposure because of how they're holding the
football and therefore how the ball ends up leaving their hands okay when you go to the
the another start to be more active in terms of going to camps and seeing people in person uh it
really makes a big difference when the ball just flies out of your hands a certain way
you know you can kind of see it and a lot of times it ends up being guys that are bigger quarterbacks
which is why more bigger quarterbacks get more attention and more offers but it does happen
within guys that are you know not as tall and the guys that are not as tall and can still have that
quality wrist flick right have that velocity coming right off of the hand when they're throwing
that makes a big impact in terms of you know what gets college interest okay there's everybody that
i see that has college interest is able to get the risks in the right position as they
are releasing the ball or you know get at least some degree of a understanding of of what that
looks like and most of it's natural right and that ends up being to me kind of the frustration it's
like you guys can learn this if you actually spent the time right if you invested the time
now spend so much time on you know the all the drops and the scrambling and throwing the ball
on your back foot and all that type of stuff and instead slow it down and really be able to improve
your wrist position and and throwing power and throwing velocity because it doesn't matter if
you don't have those things okay and so what you want to do with the football when you're holding
the football is you can't have that thumb too high the higher the thumb the more there's going to be
like a straight connection within the hand and the football right you want to be able to have
you know you want to have a gap there okay so you don't want to be stuck without a gap in your hand
okay so when you can get that football a little bit further which i think you know as you get
your index finger a little higher it helps you in getting that that thumb down and you should feel
like your your wrist is strong you know you should feel like there's not a lot of laxity in that uh
part of your body right because what happens and really to me you know you can see how i hold my
the football like i try to get as much length as i can right like i'm trying to really open
up because now i can control like how my pinky comes through right because the two issues that we
see we talked about this before is like the pinky doesn't come through all the way right so you're
too far over here or and the biggest one is is just not getting this action right we need to get
this action as we're coming down and through right so it's downwards right we're coming down and
through right and then there's also going to be obviously a rotational component as we're loading
but we need to be able to get that downward flick on the football in order to really have that great
velocity and being able to understand the timing for how that works within your body within your
motion is what ends up being critical and you know when when you start to be able to really
break this down and dissect it you can see who's going to be able to throw the ball really well
and who's not based off of where there are where they are within the wrist right and you got to be
neutral right we can't be over the side so when you're holding it you know you should almost grab
it as if it's like a claw right like i'm grabbing you know i don't let the ball kind of sit back
onto my hands right because i see so many guys that are like doing like this okay and you know
that's just not going to be something that's going to work for 50 yards 60 yards okay it might work
at 20 25 and it might look pretty or whatever but it's not going to be beneficial when it comes to
really adding that that elite velocity and really even creating the correct amount of external
rotation within the arm right because we want to be able to get good external rotation get that
elbow to be able to come back right when you're going here when you let the wrist here it makes
it harder to be able to actually get pure external rotation the better position you're in with the
wrist the more effective you're going to be at external rotation and therefore the more velocity
you're going to be able to generate within the arm right you have to be able to we've seen direct
correlation between external rotation the shoulder and then inter rotation velocity and the shoulder
in terms of ball velocity okay again external rotation like the stretch of the shoulder boom
internal rotation velocity how fast can we get you know from that max stretch into internal rotation
as a direct correlation to ball velocity ball distance okay so we got to be able to slow it
down here right it's not as important of you know being able to throw the ball off your back foot
being able to do a bunch of like you know scrambling drills blah blah blah you know when you
get to the camps when you get to the situation you can you got to be able to adapt anyway right just
like when in a football game as playing an actual quarterback and so you know the bigger thing you
got to be able to do is you got to wow people with how the ball is coming out of your hand
and in order to do that you got to be able to work on that wrist flick you know the everybody that's
in the program we're doing wrist flick drills you know two to three times per week because
it's important you got to be able to constantly work at it and you know because when you throw the
deeper footballs right you got to still be able to do that the trajectory of the position changes a
little bit right because of how we lift our our front arm but that doesn't mean that we still
need to come down if anything it's more important to come down through that pinky as we're coming
through the football so you know you have a few months left here before the season okay and and
i know there's a lot of quarterbacks that are still struggling with distance i know there's a
lot of quarterbacks that are still struggling with velocity you're not getting the same opportunities
because they don't have the distance and the velocity within the throw and so you know you
got to make a change you got to make a commitment you got to decide that this is something that you
want to be able to do right you got to be able to decide that you want to be able to improve your
throwing velocity and your throwing distance and really commit to the mechanics behind it because
really it's the mechanics that's going to get you there when it comes to sprinting when it comes to
throwing when it comes to jumping you know you've got to be able to build your body up to be able to
have the right mechanics when you can do that then you're going to be able to throw the ball further
right or throw the ball with more velocity but if you don't have the right mechanics right same
with pitching right then you're not going to be able to throw the ball far and you're going to
put yourself more at risk for injury right so if you're already throwing the ball far and you're
like oh yeah i don't really need throwing power throwing velocity but your arms get sore right
or you're not consistently accurate that's still a way to to tell yourself that you i don't have
the cleanest mechanics i could probably work on my mechanics right because a lot of guys would just
have you know big size and that's why they're able to put a lot on the ball but they're not accurate
right the wrist is all over the place they're inconsistent they don't know what they should be
doing with the wrist because they've never been taught what they should be doing with the wrist
okay and because of that you don't end up being that elite level quarterback right and there's
all these different things that happen with like the elbow and the right i mean we can't
go over all the things that can end up happening but i've seen guys that are very very big guys
go to division one and immediately get moved to a different position or within the first year or two
get moved to a different position because when you go to that level you have to have great mechanics
right and if you're a smaller guy you even have to have better mechanics because that's what's
going to end up making it so you even get the opportunity because you already are limited within
the height so you've got to be able to commit to having great mechanics okay and i don't know how
to be able to get you better mechanics unless we actually look at the video and actually see
what it is that you've got what's what's going on right and you can come here you can do the
camera system we have all that you know you can go there's a couple different places that have
biomechanics labs and everything like that but the best most effective way for somebody all over
the world is just send over video you don't need to travel but we already have the program set up
click the like button if you like the information here so far you know really consider what i've
been talking about with the wrist right change your wrist you're going to have to change
the the how you hold the ball anyway when you catch a bad snap or blah blah blah right and
and so you got to get used to being able to throw the ball in in some different ways anyway so try
to throw the ball like this a few times and see you know how you like it get that thumb a little
bit lower get that wrist in a better position okay and you know if you like the information subscribe
we're always doing videos like this we're always helping you guys in understanding how to be able
to throw the ball more and i've been really you know committing a lot more to it because i've even
started to see some people that are on some of the social media start to incorporate some of the
things that we're talking about staying back you know utilizing the front arm creating that hip and
shoulder disassociation how to be able to do that how to generate the right type of timing so i know
it's helping i know there's people watching so that gives me a little bit more motivation overall
i know the things that i'm talking about ends up being very valid in terms of helping you improve
but you know now you just got to make the choice that you want to actually get better that you want
to change that you want to actually make it so you could see the long-term benefit right and and
just because we're working on something and and for a short term might not be able to understand
it right away over a long period of time you're going to be able to get it and you're going to see
consistent results and that ends up being the name of the game all right again like the video
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