hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be going over
if changing your arm motion is a good idea and we're going to start the video right now
all right so this is going to be a really important concept just because i know there's
a few quarterback coaches out there that go into the arm action and how it's something that
you actually do not want to change you don't want to mess with it will actually be able to
kind of change almost on its own and i do as a whole disagree with the concept that you don't
want to change the arm action i do think if you have something messed up within how you
are utilizing your arm it is something that you want to be able to change and but with that said
one thing that kind of branches off from that is the overall mentality that if your arm action is
either correct or not correct that just ends up going into your biological gift for throwing a
football baseball javelin whatever the case may be so if you're a you know quarterback that was
gifted to be able to throw the football then that ends up just being your trajectory of
life where if you're somebody that's not gifted in throwing the football that ends up not being your
trajectory is the concept of not changing the arm action right because we have dreams and goals and
aspirations of being a better quarterback but our arm action isn't correct then that would
just mean that we might as well just quit and not do it which to me is not the right way to
you know live your life i think that you can make changes to your arm action no matter what and can
actually have an influence on the trajectory of your life based off of what it is that you do and
what actions that you take so now i'm going to go into some of the reasons why i think it is a good
thing to be able to change your arm action when it comes to throwing and the first one is going to be
that throwing a football is not something that's just like a natural thing like walking
is a little bit more of like a natural thing and even with that we end up wanting to change
that so there's a lot of small things within your throwing motion such as your you know wrist angle
your ability to load the football especially you know if you start with a bigger ball let's say
and you are a young kid you're five six and you start with like an adult ball like this and you
start throwing that that will developing certain bad habits that you know will will
cause different types of blows and different type of arm actions that won't be able to
actually have a positive influence on your throat so you know in in general being able to throw the
football is not something that you're going to just be born being able to do it's something
you're going to have to work on in order to become more and more efficient now some of the muscles
that we end up utilizing when we're throwing the football will be habitual and be something that
will be a little bit more difficult to change or something that we won't be able to change at all
somebody like tom brady has a higher release where somebody like a kyler murray has a lower
release or somewhere like kyler murray is shorter so he has to create a lot more rotational force
where somebody like tom brady because he's a little bit taller creates a little bit more
vertical force so how we end up generating force does have to be a little bit more adaptational to
our actual body and you know for that reason you end up not being able to make as big a changes
right so kyler murray won't be able to throw like tom brady he has to be able to throw like him
and i do agree in that sense where it's like each individual is going to have their way of throwing
the football that's going to be most optimized for their individual technique but that doesn't mean
that changing the arm action isn't something that should be done especially when it's inefficient
and some of the things that end up being really inefficient is you know for for me even what
i'm trying to change is you know dropping the ball during that initial load bringing the ball
really far back behind the head dropping the elbow as you're going through the throw and or
throwing with the wrist off to the side those are really like the four main things that i would say
end up you know really having a negative impact are really really important to be able to correct
within the arm action to make it so you can get the ball out of your hands quickly
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the next reason that i think it's important to be able to understand that changing the arm action is
something that could be beneficial is that we can have the background training of you know let's say
we have really tight pecs or we have a scapula that is out of neutral right there's something
going on with it you know it could be you know tilted forward it could be tilted outwards
there's a lot of things that could happen within the scapula let's say that could have an impact
on how you're throwing the ball but once you were able to retrain the muscle and retrain the body to
make it so everything is a little bit more aligned correctly that will have an impact on how the arm
action is and so being able to understand that the musculature has a big impact on how our body
is moving when we're throwing the football that we do know that by having certain changes from
a physiological standpoint can actually have a positive influence on how we're throwing the
football which is why you know i'm such a big proponent of my programs is because we help in
being able to re-stabilize and restructure the body to make it so you're going to be more
set up to being able to throw the ball more effectively and more efficiently so you know that
ends up being a big part of it as well is how your muscles are set up if you're tight within the pecs
that's going to make it so you're not going to be able to have as good of a load as you're going
back or you know again if you have a scapula it's out of place it's going to be harder for you to go
through the transition phase or the release phase or if you don't have good neutral wrist and grip
strength that could impacting how the ball comes out of your hand so there's a lot of things that
end up coming to play and then once you're able to see the mechanics and where the inefficiencies
are that gives us really a good blueprint to be able to understand what it is that we need to be
able to work on focus on to be able to make a big change within your mechanics and yeah there ends
up being a lot of changes that will happen when you can better sync up your lower body and your
core to you know your upper body and i do agree that you know that ends up being a big part of
how you utilize your upper body is how effective you are with your lower body but that doesn't
mean that the arm action is not something that's super important and something that needs to be
changed with a lot of quarterbacks you know i see quarterbacks all the time where you've been able
to make small tweaks within how their their arm is moving and it's really made a big big impact
on how they're throwing the ball and how it comes out of their hands so both of those end
up being really important parts of throwing the football is you know one understanding how to
utilize the lower body and the core when it comes to throwing and the other part is understanding
how to be as efficient as you can with the arm stroke and making small changes you know a lot
of times you can't make a huge change within the the arm action you know but making some small
subtle changes can make a big influence and i think are necessary for a lot of quarterbacks
now with that said if you're looking to get a breakdown to be able to help you out with your
own individual arm action i'd be happy to help you out we do have a great offer going on right now
it's 97 you can get a throw breakdown you can get a speed breakdown you get drills you get exercises
you also get some one-on-one zooms with me i'm really trying to make it so you guys can really
make a big difference in your throwing mechanics here in the next three four weeks i know a lot of
you guys are really pushing to be able to make a big influence on your potential starting position
and so being able to connect and go over what are the things that are going on even in your training
camp you know practicing and watching film there could really make a big influence on your ability
to actually win the job so i want to help as many quarterbacks be starting quarterbacks this
offseason so if you're watching this you want to make some changes within your mechanics your arm
action your body whatever the case may be or even struggling with like the three step drop the five
step drop how you can read a defense we have a lot of different ways that you can understand how to
do that more effectively in our channel but then also if you want to connect 101 to be able to get
some coaching like that i'd be happy to help you out so as always guys thanks for watching like
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