hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be breaking down
the best wrist flick in the game Aaron Rodgers want to start the video right now
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alright so I recently did a video about all the top throws and breaking down some of the
top throws ever and so many times Aaron Rodgers is on that and it just made me there's one angle in
particular that made me say like I really need to do a breakdown on Aaron Rodgers wrist flake
because it's just so phenomenal and this is from a game in 2018 where he actually hurt his left knee
right so he had a hard time shifting his weight onto his front knee and still made some incredible
throws right made some bad throws but also made some incredible throws and the and really the bad
throws were more decision based not not the throws themselves were bad but anyway let's hop into the
wrist flick that Aaron Rodgers has right and and how he gets there okay so we see where he's at
with the football right and how he's holding the football okay so obviously he has a big hand some
of us do not have the same size hands I'm I'm one of those people included and so because of
that I'm not going to be able to hold the ball the same way that he does but some of the things that
stand out to me is you know we're very similar in that Pinky and being able to get a lot of
we're trying to expand on that Pinky the best that we can and then for him it's a lot easier for him
to have a great grasp with that index finger right on the top of the football there for me I have to
have like a little bit longer separation okay but we can see where he's at with his hand and how
he's loading right and when he loads he's really has great position with his hand right and being
able to have a lot of control of the football the nose of football goes really straight back from
there okay and then as he's coming upwards okay and this ends up being I think where the biggest
issue ends up coming right so we could see he's coming upwards and I'm gonna be looking back both
sides here so he as he's coming upwards with the hand he's also rotating the football okay and this
is where the most amount of people I think have mistakes because when they get into like this area
within the ball like loading right they want to be more with their hit with the nose of football
facing back or even facing straight this way right towards the camera where you can see hand
he's already turning the wrist so the number one thing you want to be able to do when it comes to
being able to fix that wrist flick is being able to be fast and being able to get the wrist around
okay so we want to be fast at being able to get the wrist around and so so first thing he does is
he turns it right and then he does uh elbow drive so he's coming forward with his elbow
okay and as he's coming forward with the elbow he's allowing that external rotation to happen
within the shoulder okay so we could see that now that's where it allows like to knows the football
to go upwards okay and he gets the the ball to be really right above the shoulder right a little bit
more external rotation but really close to being right above the shoulder and then from there okay
and this is where it's going to be different for everybody right is in this little range how well
can you create this rotation right so he does a really good job of being able to generate this
rotation where the hand ends up almost bending you know slightly backwards okay and a lot of
times I see quarterbacks do this and it ends up being something that they can't recover from what
in being able to get that hand to really Bend all the way back there okay and then from there still
be able to get up on top okay so as he allows that that hand to bed now he's getting back on top of
the ball right coming straight forward and through and this is where you know having those big hands
really makes a big difference because he's in kind of that U position right here but right before he
gets into releasing he's able to turn that wrist around so then he's able to get back on top of the
ball right and really release downward on the football okay and that ends up being the main
thing that he does that allows him to have the success that he has right we'll get we'll take
another look here from this view I think this view you could probably see it even better right
so he's in here right he's get he allows that that hand to bend right now he's quick to rotate and be
able to get back on top so now as he's rotating right now slight Bend backwards okay so we get
like a a radial deviation here so he's bending with the thumb back right and then that's coming
into ulnar deviation as he's driving that pinky forward okay and then as he does you can even see
like right before he releases the ball right he's coming through he gets like this last little turn
right see how he does that last little turn of his of his hand okay and and we could even see
this from the front I have some front angles as well where he gets like this last little bit of
movement before the ball comes out of his hand let me try to find it there we go
so he's turning right right before that ball comes out of his hand he gets like this little bit of
turn which allows him to great this extension in the elbow as he's flicking the ball right so
see how he extends in that elbow so he gets this little turn and then this extension and then turn
it over with that wrist okay and that's what really separates him right I mean we're going
super in depth into the to release right and and I think the reason that this is so important to
me right and the reason I take the time here and this is one of the examples of what's was not a
great uh maybe decision right but it looks like the guy kind of slipped too see how good he does
at getting on top of the ball right and then he's able to flick right it looks like the the
ball either slipped or the receiver slip something happened okay you can see he's not able to shift
his weight onto his front leg but he's still throwing dimes right this is a great deep throw
okay we want to be able to take a look at that as well okay so look
front foot down okay wait is on the back leg right
and he really can't shift too far forward okay but he does shift forward and upward
okay and then he's able to turn that wrist and right before he releases the ball he gets this
like last little turn here which makes it so then he can get this A Little Bit Stronger
flick within those two fingers and it seems to me like he really uses two fingers to really get that
flick on the football right so like he's here and he's turning and then he gets like this kind of
rotation so then he could use both his middle and his index finger to be able to release that ball
okay and so you got to be able to connect to this guys I'm taking the time to show you right that
last little turn and see how he has like both these fingers here it's almost like a a snake
right trying to snap down on the ball like bow okay and the reason I'm trying I'm showing you
this is because yeah the the lower body is important right the strength of your body is
important the strength if the core is important the timing of the throw is important okay all
those are important what you do with the front arm is important but what makes a big difference
is being able to understand the timing of the wrist flick the positioning of the wrist the
utilization of the hands right all those things that are making a big difference and the more
that you will be willing to spend the time to go into it right I know I'm I'm the guy that
spends the most time talking about this there's nobody that spends amount of time or goes into
the depth that I have okay but looking three to four years from now I know that this information
is going to be what everybody talks about right and the more we can go in depth into it right
the sooner you're willing to go in depth into it the better your results are going to be okay so I
really challenge you or I really encourage you to take the time to understand the risk flick
right and really I encourage you to sign up for the 360 program right sign up for quarterback
University go and do those things because now we could really go in depth into it and you can start
asking questions and we could look at your throw and be able to break it down because it takes time
it's not something that just happens right away but the guys that are in the program that are
taking the time to be able to make improvements I mean in terms of being able to throw over 50
yards no problem right in terms of being able to throw 60 yards a lot of them able to achieve that
that are in that those higher levels but even the younger kids are super excited about being able to
understand this and seeing great results in camps and playing flag football and playing seven on
seven and playing in their youth leagues because they understand that getting the risk in the right
position is critical and the sooner you can get to that position the sooner you can understand
what that looks like the more success you're going to have as a quarterback period so check
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a difference between how you throw a intermediate ball and how you throw a deep ball right no
one taught me hey look there's differences between the two ways right it took me until
I got into biomechanics got into teaching got into understanding that really I was able to connect to
this and now looking back four or five years ago and how my teaching first started and being able
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