hey what's up everyone morey croson here from the performance lab of California and today we're
gonna go over three main keys about that front leg that are thing gonna be really really important
being able to maximize your overall mechanics I see a lot of people that make different mistakes
within their front leg and I think a lot of that just comes from a lack of knowledge of
understanding exactly with the front leg you're supposed to be there for and what you're using
it for so that that stands out to me is that when you know you're landing on it you want to
make sure you're getting that foot down quickly right you don't want to end up getting you being
too long and how the foot just down you want to be able to take that step give it down really really
fast and so then you can shift all your weight off your back leg onto your front leg okay so
you don't want to end up going and let's not go see why people do this type of stuff there right
it wants to be pretty fairly quickly being able to get that front foot down the next thing is
that as you're transferring your weight on to the front leg you want to be feeling all your weight
to go from like the inside part of your foot as you're transferring all the way through to the
outside part your foot so it's a whole progress of being able to go from shifting your weight
all from your back leg onto the inside of your front leg to the outside part of your front leg
and while doing that there could be some movement through there but you want to be able to keep it
as stagnant as you can or as controlled as you can during the entire process and then the last thing
is the actual force that you should be getting on there should actually be somewhat upwards right so
you're going to start a little bit lower than the transfer your weight as your weights transferring
onto that front leg you actually want that way to be doing up and not too much down I see a lot
of times people will end up going you know really trying to push it down even in my thought process
beginning is that I thought you really want to be able to push it down but when you really really
understand exactly what's happening on that that front leg which is knee extension right in order
for you to get in the extension you have to be pushing up all right so that fundamental truths
about being able to shift all your weight on your front leg and getting more knee extension means
that that is where the weight wants to go and hang by actually pushing upwards in through that
front leg it actually helps you getting a little bit more stability alright so I'm going to add a
couple videos here for so you guys could see it really understand exactly what's going on okay
so here's me actually throwing here and notice with that front leg where when I'm stepping it
a lot of people to ask about where that front toe should be pointed and the big thing that I
just say is that you want to make sure that you're not crossing over with your foot so the toe could
be pointed straight ahead it could be pointed slightly you know off to the side like mine
is it can be pointed even more inside than what it currently is but the big thing is is that if
I was in a draw a line between your toe and or botos that should be that should not block you
off from your actual target so if my foot was you know here then that would be blocking off
my hip so you can see here I'm letting plenty of space open so I could bring my hips all the
way through and get all of my weight onto my front leg right so now looking into it you can
see that with my front foot I'm really getting that foot down as soon as I can there to then
make it so and it's gonna be a little bit longer depending on the throw so it's natural if you're
gonna throw a deep ball for the this step to be a little bit longer but you still want to be able
to get that down soon so then you could really start pivoting and then pushing off that back
leg as soon as you can you can't push off your back leg if your front leg is not on the ground
you're your brain won't let you do that if all your weight is on you know it's off the ground in
order for you to lift off a foot all your weight has to go into one single leg and so by lifting
up now my weights going here so in order for my way to start transferring forward I need to get
that front foot down and that once my front foots down now I could go in and transfer my weight and
initially it's gonna be more on the inside part of the foot you could see you know here how all
my weight when I'm when I'm first landing is gonna be first touching on the inside part of the foot
there boom and then from there it transfers to the outside part of the foot right you can see
the knees a little bit more inside and then as my hips begin to transfer all the way through and be
able to open up now you could see that more of the weight goes to the outside part of the foot
that I'm really trying to push down through the heel and keep my foot as stable as I can right
like right for me it's difficult for me to keep my foot locked into place but that's something that
you really want to try to make as somewhat of a goal you know you want to be able to have a lot
of stability through there you certainly don't want your foot to be moving all over the place
as you're going through but it is very hard to be able to keep it disabled so just kind
of being able to play through both and utilizing that to help you generate more force I think is
super important and then the last thing you could see back to going on to the the front leg is you
can see my leg is bent here right and then as I'm actually going through you can see how it
starts to extend as we went through so there's some degree of pushing up really through the
heel as you're actually finishing and that's probably something that we're doing again you
get into the deep balls the timing of that is super important so you need to be able to get
all of your weight over your actual front legs you can see my hips are getting up over my front leg
here before I start getting my leg straightened out so when you get thrown the deep ball a lot
of times people will not let their hips get all the way through up on that front leg before they
start straightening out that front leg so it's important to be able to get all your weight going
that way and then once your weight gets all the way there now you could start to extend within
that front foot and at front leg to make it so you still have a lot of stability there alright
so those are gonna be the three main things that you need to know about your front leg in order to
throw the ball better and if you guys have any questions we'll be happy to answer them for you
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