hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be talking about how to get
extension in the elbow when throwing the ball and why that is such a critical part of being able to
throw the ball with more power as well as being able to resist injury risk within that elbow as
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cool things we're able to find is the importance of being able to get that elbow extension and
what ends up happening when you're actually throwing the ball is you go through this time
period where you're you know obviously going to to release the ball and you know the big question was
you know do you get into rotation of the shoulder first or do you get extension
in the elbow first and where should there be a higher amount of torque or force production
when actually throwing what ends up happening is there first wants to be more torque actually in
the elbow when you're going through the throat in comparison to the shoulder so there's going to be
a little bit more and what torque essentially just means is how fast the actual joint ends up moving
during that release time and how rapid it's going through that extension movement obviously when it
comes to you know force and torque you're able to create a lot more force with like your hips
but your hips aren't going to be moving as quickly through space but your elbow is going to be moving
very quickly as is your shoulder and internal rotation for the shoulder and an extension in
the elbow so the question is you know what's happening faster or what's creating more you know
torque from age or speed perspective and again that elbow is the the thing that is creating more
overall force and really the most during the throw than any of the other joints and uh except for
maybe like the wrist but it's hard to be able to fully calculate the wrist the wrist at least with
uh with our system but you know when and when it comes to being able to create that extension what
ends up being important is being able to you know as you're coming through the throw once you get to
this point what happens is that people end up really putting a big emphasis on doing that and
that's what makes it so the elbow ends up staying bent is if there's too much of creating that
internal rotation or too much of coming across the body that'll make it so that elbow stays locked
what ends up happening is you want to get to this point and then from this point you want to be
really tranjecting the ball out right or even when you're throwing a deep ball you're going to be
going more like an upward motion but essentially once you're here you want to be thinking about
throwing the ball out in front of you here and that will help you in releasing and making sure
you're going going to get full extension here if you're going and you're you know kind of releasing
the ball closer to here and you're coming across then you're not going to be able to get that full
extension but if you think about really releasing the ball in and going out in front of you that's
going to help you being able to get that extension and it's also going to make it so you're able to
create a lot of rapid force within that joint to really maximize again that that power and making
sure that you're able to stay healthy when you keep that elbow bent and locked into place puts a
lot of pressure on your your triceps to be able to do that and also creates a lot of tension within
you know the different ligaments and small muscles in the elbow so it's really really important to
be able to get that full extension when you're throwing in order to again make sure that you're
going to reduce any type of injury risk all right as always guys thanks for watching the video if
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