hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be going over
the throwing mechanic sequence i'm going to start the video right now
alright so this is something that i've talked about a lot of times we're gonna go over the
eight different parts of the throwing mechanics sequence and really it can go a lot deeper than
this i just wanted to give you guys kind of a brief outline here just to be able to really
give you some connection into what are some of the main things that you're looking at and you
know to me this is great practice right not only for me to be able to help in being a better coach
but also to help me be a better quarterback and the reason why is because if i could write all
this stuff down now i have a great understanding of it right and this is something that even when
you go into you know high school locker rooms or into a quarterback room at the high school level
college level pro level they're gonna have you get on the whiteboard you're gonna have to show
you know how to beat a certain defense you're gonna have to show how to call a certain play
you know they want you to have the exposure of getting on the whiteboard being able to actually
show your thoughts and so that's what this is but with throwing mechanics right and you have
to understand this guys it's not something that you want to take lightly you have to understand
what it is that we're getting because now we can go to an actual quarterback coach me you know
whatever the case may be and let them know hey look this is my issue right but if you go in there
saying hey i don't really know what's going on you know hopefully you could help me while blah then
you're really not taking ownership of the problem right take ownership know what's going on so then
you can fix things faster if you go in saying oh yeah i hope to get this i hope to get that
then you're going to keep on hoping for things all the time all right so first thing is going
to be upper body load with the front step right so as you're loading you're taking a step 60 percent
of your weight should be on the back foot okay so your upper body is going back to initiate the load
and sixty percent of your weight should be on your back leg as you take that front first step an
important note here wide base we've been talking about white bass a lot lately make sure you have a
wide base when you're doing this step number two or the second part of the sequence here is the
back leg is going to initiate the forward movement primarily with rotation okay so what that means is
that with that back foot we want to be pushing our weight forward we want to be initiating rotation
with that back foot with that back toe and really we should be getting onto that big toe the back
big toe in order to really make sure that we're getting you know any degree of rotation any degree
of push so if we're not able to really connect to our back leg and initiate movement through that
back leg it's going to be very very difficult to be able to generate the same amount of power
as somebody that is able to do that really effectively so this is really really important
all these steps are important right i really wanted to put these down into
you know this is how it should all sequence but this is also a degree of how important they
they are which is why you got to even write them out right if they weren't as important
there'd be no reason to write them out but since they are very important i'm taking the time
to actually write out this specific part of the throw so then you know or and i know exactly
what should be happening now i can connect to my body and say this is what should be happening i
should be pushing up that back leg and initiating movement you know forward movement for rotation
if you don't understand this right if you don't understand your body if you understand what's
going to be happening then how you're going to control it you gotta understand what's supposed
to be going on number three the ball loads back then immediately forward rotation of the wrist
okay so we're going back you know some people say dan marino just went up and out yeah yeah
he that was the goal that the the his dad told him but that's not when you actually slow it down
he went back everybody goes back you have to load in order to explode you can't just jump right you
have to load then jump you can't just sprint you have to load and then sprint you can't just throw
you gotta load and throw there's no baseball pitchers that just throw there's no quarterbacks
to just throw you have to load first you that's just the simple biomechanics of the the body you
can't just you know when you do a bench press you gotta load the bench press in order to push
okay so the initiation is a backwards movement some people have a longer backwards movement
some people are shorter you know that's where dan marino was great he had a very very short
back movement and then immediately went to forward rotation of the wrist getting that
pinky faces straight ahead okay number four lower half of the body continues forward motion
right so now we've loaded we're getting the the rotation of the pinky to make it so the wrist is
facing straight ahead the pinky's face is straight ahead that knows the football is
facing straight ahead or where it is that that we're going to so you know if you're a deeper
throw or throwing a longer path that knows the football is going to be a little bit more upwards
but the lower half is continuing the forward movement right so you want to be as this the wrist
is rotating you want to keep that forward movement to keep and create that disassociation there's
going to be this disassociation that starts off here but really you know i don't want to
create it should really be keep right create or keep disassociation right because that
this association's going to kind of start a little bit here but we want to be able to keep that
disassociation keep the lower body in front for as long as we can you know from the upper half okay
keep that lower body in front of the upper body as long as we possibly can step number five the
throwing elbows drives forward so the wrist is rotating the elbows coming through the wrist is
going to be a little bit behind the elbow at first which is what creates that external rotation where
we've talked about we've seen you know some of the greats that have that patrick mahomes
um you know josh allen just to name a few of the the great guys that have some extra a lot
of extra rotation in their arm as they're going i think the front arm needs to be pulling back
right we've seen that with like justin herbert uh even philip rivers front arm pulls back right they
really create a lot of front arm action which allows them to create more rotation within the
spine lower body continues rotation a lot of times when we get to this point we see people that stop
their forward movement with their lower body their little body starts to really hit like a dead point
right when we see that we know it's somebody that's not maximizing their force production
okay so you got to be able to keep that rotation and there's really somebody's going to struggle
with accuracy if you're not able to go through the throw and continue movement through the throw
now it becomes a lot more like of a jerky movement which means you're lacking control if you're
lacking control you're not going to be as accurate you got to be able to continue through this throw
and as you're continuing through you have to be able to maintain a strong elbow drive so you have
to be able to understand what's happening in the upper body and what's happening in the lower body
in order to really maximize this movement pattern number six the elbow keeps forward movement
as the wrist comes through right so the elbow doesn't want to stop we see people that stop
the elbow or the elbow goes off the side whatever um you know if the elbow's too far out to the side
and that'll make it so it stops but the other wants to keep moving forward you want to get as
much action of that elbow as you possibly can keep moving forward with the elbow some of these things
the reason i put this in here is because i see these mistakes under you know hundreds of times
a bunch of times i've seen these breakdowns all the time you know sorry if i'm talking fast but
i'm getting a little motivated you know i want you guys to be great i want to see people that
have great mechanics and and it makes me upset when i see you know i make all this content and
i still see the same mistakes so keep that elbow moving forward movement of the of the elbow as the
wrist is coming through and flexes right so as the wrist is going through and initiating the flexion
uh front part of the body stays firm okay so this is where we start to see people lose control of
the spine and start to lean off to the side that has to do with the front arm that has to do with
that front spine that has to do with how well you're rotating within the hips that has to do
with how strong you are within that front leg how stable you are within that front leg front ankle
all that type of stuff all these things matter you know throwing a football there's a reason why
there's such a small percentage of people that can do it at such a high level even if you're a
starting quarterback in high school you are what top a part of the top probably three percent
in terms of football players that are able to play at a high level right if you're at division one
level probably like the top point five percent maybe even lower of you know athletes overall
that could actually play at that level right it's not an easy thing to be able to throw a
football consistently and also be able to go with a lot of force on it number seven wrist flicks to
release the ball now i made number seven its own thing because i think the wrist flick is
that important okay all these other things this that that you know i talked about the upper body
and lower body uh in a lot of these you know how they should be working together you know front arm
with the elbow with the lower body number five number seven wrist flick just the wrist flick
needs to be happening here and there needs to be a great deal of attention on how that should be
it's gonna be a little bit different for everybody but you got to be able to master that the
the ring or sorry the index finger and the thumb and the relationship there is really important as
we're talking about the actual you know flick of the wrist and the release of the football
and then number eight the arm follows through and the body stays balanced so as you're going through
you want to be balanced you want to be at under control you know the best you can if you're taking
a shot at that time you're obviously going to be going you know falling over the side but if
you're not getting hit you want to be balanced you want to have control you want that arm to be
falling all the way down and through in order to complete the throw and those are going to be the
main parts of your throwing mechanic sequence as always if you like the information go and
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