okay what's up everyone wanted to do a comparison here today just about what are some of the key
differences between throwing a football or being a quarterback or throwing a baseball and being a
pitcher ok so there's some really some key mechanical differences and I just wanted to
go over those differences just if you're trying to make the transition from being a quarterback
to a pitcher or vice versa so obviously the big thing is and Tom Brady actually has a little bit
longer shrine oh you got did Tom Brady I did clayton kershaw just because I think you know
those guys are probably the two best at their position within their respective leagues I just
thought that that would be you know at least a good place to start so the first thing that
stands out as a quarterback is your stride is not going to be near as long okay and so when you go
in and you get ready for your throw it's going to be getting the foot down a lot faster and the big
thing with pitchers is they're trying to work on hip and shoulder disassociation and quarterbacks
do that to an extent you can see how Tom Brady's getting that with tips going around and you want
to do that before we get the shoulders going but it is not near as much of a hip disassociation
what that is and we can see Clayton Kershaw's pitch here to kind of show what that is is that
it's when you're getting your hips to turn open and keeping your shoulders turn the other way
so you can see how basically is belt buckle here it's facing forward towards the catcher
but you can see that his front part of his body is still facing towards us okay and so that's
a hip and shoulder disassociate disassociation the ability for your hips to be facing one way
and the shoulders to be facing together you can see here Tom Brady slightly does that but not
near as much as we're seeing with play incursean that all begins with the big stride okay the next
thing is going to be the arm so we can see with Tom Brady what he's doing here is he first wants
to go and bring that ball up to get to kind of a 9090 position and really trying to keep those
the top of the palm facing upwards as he's loading and that as you can put in the back overhead he's
going to go and try to rotate that hand as fast as he can to make it so the nose of the football
is reaches facing straight ahead so he doesn't really want to go into very much extension with
that arm and let it all the way open up until he's all the way up overhead and use the seat
ombré does an excellent job of getting that really tall release and ital extension and
he's he's throwing which is excellent and now we'll compare that to clean Kershaw really with
baseball it's a little bit different just because there's a lot of different ranges of what you
could do you can see part of the load let me scoot this over a little bit is actually have
that ball straight or sorry the elbow straight so as he's pushing back with that back leg and
generating force there he's actually allowing that back arm to extend and then from there he
goes from extension with the arm in to bending the arm coming up towards the head and coming up and
through okay so that's a very distinct difference in what type of muscles that you're using one of
them they're loading and keeping the elbow bent at 90 degrees the whole time and really doing a
good amount of rotation while here you can see he's just extending the elbow really not doing
very much rotation within the arm and really just trying to generate as much power going forward as
you possibly can okay another big thing is going to be how you pass off the back leg we could see
here with the pitcher what he's trying to do is he's trying to create force by bending that
knee so you can see he goes and he stands up at the beginning wait for it to catch up here
so either Taal the beginning okay and then as he's trying to create force he's going to bend
in that knee and then rotate that knee straight downwards in order to really create that that
large amount of force generation so see that now he's going to go and turn that knee in so
he's going from tall to bent to pushing that knee straight down to generate force I'd that back leg
now we'll go and compare that to Tom Brady and what he's going to be trying to do which is he's
going to really go from being more in a bent knee position see that how the defenders need to kind
of get ready and then he's going to push off you know but he'll bend the knees slightly to load
it but then he's going to push off and really straighten that knee and bring it in from the
very beginning so there's never really a real time of being able to sit back and really load
that back leg like what pitchers get to do and that's why being able to generate fast twitch
force off of that back leg is really crucial as a quarterback you have to be able to transition from
the outside part of your foot to the inside part of the foot very very quickly and very efficiently
you can't leave very much time there well those pictures they have a lot of times that they can
use their because they don't have like a time clock for when they have to get rid of the ball
for quarterbacks you you know those people getting hit so release time is very very important so you
can see that you know he doesn't get to a lot of time to be able to lolis just turning that
that foot right in and generating force so they use a lot more of being able to get the hip and
upper body synched all together because they have to create force within those hips can find a lot
more a lot faster while pitchers are going to be creating a lot of force with that back leg and
being able to effectively push off that back leg and that creates that disassociation we're seeing
here that that run buck adult Buffalo station straight ahead and then the other part of each
of his of his trunk the upper part of his trunk is facing towards us so it's this push off that
gets all the fours going where he's create where he's most of his weight facing forward and then
it's the whip that he's going to get we'll be able to see now by rotating all the way around and then
you know the last part is gonna obviously be that extension of the elbow but but it's going to be
really both sides you can see here with clayton kershaw he's going to bend the elbow go through
extension come down hard while only look at Tom Brady he's going to go from having that bent
elbow and then he's going to go into extension and then just come right back down into I'm internal
rotation so just some quick differences between what what you'd be expecting out of a quarterback
in comparison to a pitcher you know we could see that the load off the back leg is very different
which makes it so the stride is very different between a pitcher and a quarterback is going to
be a lot longer for a picture a lot less long as a quarterback and then also the disassociation
between the hips and the shoulders are different you're going to get much more disassociation in
the picture where that hips facing forwards finds kind of rotating or the chunks facing
straight ahead and do players into a picture where everything is a little rotating a little
bit more together and then as as you're going up overhead the you know those those are going to
be a little bit more similar but it's going to be going more from a bent elbow to an extended
elbow rather than as a picture going to go from extended elbow to a bent elbow then back to an
extended elbow so just some information there hope you guys liked it check out our website to get a
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