hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're gonna be going over the thumb position when
it comes to throwing the football and we're gonna start the video right now
all right so we recently had a quarterback sent in a video and really the big thing that we were
looking at with the throw was how to make it so the nose of the football is able to get more
cleanly facing straight ahead and you know as a lot of you guys know that's a big thing that i
talk about a lot just because i think that really helped you in really utilizing the wrist the best
that you can is making it so you can get that nose of the football in a position where your wrist is
neutral right and that ends up being the main thing because once you're here or you know have
the ball off to any other side it's really not in a neutral position and for that risk to be neutral
it's an important thing for overall shoulder and scapular functionality which is obviously
super important when it comes to creating power within the shoulder so when i was looking at the
video and really bringing it down from a couple different angles it really stood out to me with
the position of the thumb during the actual throat and what was happening is that it looked like as
the athlete was getting back and you know the nose of the football was facing straight ahead
it really looked like he was it was trying to grip so much with just the fingers almost like it was
like this uh with the fingers right i think you guys could see that zoom in here um and then we
can go in and if i go and i adjust my hand here so you guys could see you can see where my my
thumb is and what i want to do with the thumb you know you want to have a little bit of a gap here
but i don't want to have too much of a gap here just kind of see you know where that position is
and you know i think what ended up happening is he might have had the thumb too high there which was
making it so he it really ended up getting that nose of the football um to face straight ahead
right so if you get that nose of football too high then you're gonna be here and then you'll really
want to kind of risk that the throw a good amount and you know and it's important to utilize the
wrist it just you don't want to use the the wrist to really you know get have the the nose of the
football facing up and then pushing down like that too much just because it's going to be a little
bit harder to throw a spiral right because when you're holding the ball like this you're going to
be really putting a lot of focus on the grip and so the further throw you're going to have to make
it's going to be a little bit harder to be able to consistently throw a good spiral like that so
again i'm going to show you where i put my thumb here and i would play around with it right you
don't necessarily need to put it right there but you can kind of see the position that i have you
know there's like a slight u kind of formation going on and really i'm trying to reach a good
amount with my thumb out to the side and i'm also trying to reach with how i have my fingers there
as well there's a lot of different ways to throw the ball guys so i don't want you to be
100 set on this this really works well for me i would just say that you want to make sure you have
that gap there and then you also don't want to have too much of a gap between your index fingers
and your thumb when it comes to throwing the ball alright so really work on that grip play with the
thumb position even play with that index finger a lot and try to be able to spread out the hands the
best you can to be able to better grip the ball and that should help you in being able to throw a
more consistent spiral and also be able to really get a nice smooth motion of being able to get that
nose of the football facing straight ahead as fast as you can alright and that's really going to be
the name of the game here is being able to kind of load back and get that nose of the football
all the way through and being able to do that as efficiently and as quickly as you possibly can so
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