hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today
we're going to be going over the most common loads of the shoulder
elbow and wrist when it comes to throwing the football and we're going to up the video right now
all right so i really think this is going to be an important video to understand just because there's
so many different styles that quarterbacks end up utilizing in order to throw the ball and for
you to be able to kind of understand what your style is and be able to connect to it just also
understand some of the pros and cons i think will be important as you continue the journey
of improving your mechanics so first thing i'm going to go over is just going to be kind of my
my mechanics here when i go and i throw i really get more of like a lower load i kind of drop that
ball a little bit lower and then i come right up over through and i really tried to make sure to
get over the top in my my actual delivery so i'm here and i'm trying to come down and through and
making sure that as i release i release with more of my index finger coming through and around and
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right now the other big thing that we'll see with quarterbacks is that quarterbacks will try to come
you know more across with their their hand and their throw a lot of times when that happens it
ends up being a lack of ability to create rotation the lower body and also really getting out wide
within the throw and then when they're doing that they'll come kind of across so that is a you know
one way to throw i'd say that it's a lot harder to be accurate when you're coming across the
the body so that's going to be one of the main cons where when you're coming up over the top
uh it's a lot easier to you know be accurate which is going to be one of the main pros now
uh when you go and you bring the ball lower like that it's going to just add a little bit
more release time if you keep the ball up here you know that's going to decrease the release
time which is good another big thing that we'll see that also helps in being able to decrease
release time is going to be just coming right up and through right so it's coming
right through here a common thing that i'll see with quarterbacks that just go right up like the
dan marino and joe montana that's kind of this they have both similar releases even tom brady's
like that he doesn't really load the wrist like this he just kind of comes right up and through
common thing that i see though is that a lot of quarterbacks will actually load and come back
here with the the arm which is going to make it so again you're going to end up coming off around
you're going to have that wrist and not a good position you do want to have that wrist a more
neutral spot right so then you're able to come more down on the ball if you have the wrist down
off to the side then that's going to cause you to kind of come around or it's going to just
make it so you just can't really get much of the wrist into the throat right big thing is you
want to be able to have that nice wrist snap aaron rodgers russel wilson they talk a lot about having
a really strong wrist snap the way to do that is to be able to get to a neutral wrist position
as you're releasing the ball right if you're off to the side or your your wrist is not in a strong
neutral position you're not going to be able to get your wrist into it you're not going to
be able to flick the ball how you end up getting into a good wrist position is going to be how you
initialize the load and making it so more of the ball is going straight back and coming up over the
top rather than going back behind you like this which is going to cause you to again come around
just like so now another common thing that we see within the the wrist and how to kind of load the
wrist is when you're coming back here and you transition and start driving that elbow through
there's going to be a moment in time where the wrist actually bends back like this
right once you you end up bending that wrist back though you want to immediately get work to be able
to get back on top within that that area there'll be some people that will end up really allowing
that wrist to kind of drag in that elbow to drag which will make it so then again you'll you might
end up having to push the ball you won't get the wrist in the in the right position um and there's
a few different ways of how people kind of bring that risk back too like some guys will go with the
the ball more like that kind of bending the wrist this way right instead of bending it back this way
some people will just not even really bend the wrist and we'll just kind of come right up and
through again that will not be as effective as actually loading the wrist when you come back
you know being able to get this wrist into a good position and then being able to bend will make it
so that as you finish through you'll be able to get more more wrist flick you don't want to end
up limiting the ability to actually bend the wrist and then if you end up bending you know a lot of
times how you load is going to be how you actually you know deliver the ball and so if you load with
the wrist going too much like this and that that will really get the nose of the football to face
up then when when you come through with the throw you're going to end up going a little bit more
off to the side with the the nose of the football right so now when you go through the ball is going
to end up going more off to the side a little bit more rather than coming more straight through you
can actually have success with that so you can you know still bend like that and still get that
that wrist through right but it's not going to be the same as when you get that neutral and
come you know down so i just like to prefer i prefer more of that wrist flick and coming
through like that with the index finger but you can technically go like that almost like you're
throwing like a curveball which i say throwing a football is more like going curveball anyway so
you know you'd still be able to make that work but it's a lot harder to make work is when you come
across with the body um another big thing that we'll see is going to be like the elbow drop so
after going and loading up the elbow ends up coming down right and that really makes it so
then you end up a lot of times kind of pushing the ball and that's i want to say a big thing that you
want to try to avoid is not allowing you to really push the ball up so as you're throwing you don't
want to feel like your body is going upwards and trying to you know extend the ball going up and
forward you want to be coming down on the football the best that you can as you're finishing uh which
is going to be the big difference between almost like a pulling action and the throw rather than a
pushing action in the throw and a lot of times the reason that quarterbacks will get there is either
you know not being able to get a good load in the elbow wrist right or not having the range of
motion within the shoulder to allow them to come up over the top so you really have to be able to
build up the right shoulder range of motion to be able to get good external rotation in the arm in
order to really master being able to get good uh external rotation here right so the more uh
the lack of external rotation ability to bend back here will make it so then you can't get as good of
a control the elbow as it's coming through you'll end up having the ball a little bit further back
which will make it so you know the elbow might be a little bit closer to to your body which once
that elbow gets closer to your body now it's going to cause more of that pushing action the more you
can kind of get that elbow to be away from your body as you're transitioning through right you
want to keep it as this this transitions happening is when the body or the elbow wants to get away
and then it comes right back to you know the the ear position head position as you're finishing
but there is going to be a time where you do want that arm hand elbow to be away from the body which
helps in generating that momentum and rotation in the body if you're too close so i'm too compact
then that's going to make it so you're not able to generate as much force you really want to be kind
of wide for a second as you're you're creating force and torque because that'll make it so that
you can get a lot of power behind i just want to go over a few of the main things that really
go into being able to throw the ball well and and consistently i do do these breakdowns which will
give you a little bit more of an understanding of some of the key critical points within the throw
that really make a big difference on your ability to throw the ball far a little ability to throw
the ball accurately and also the ability to get the ball out of your hands quickly i think those
are all like the three most important things for quarterbacks and i think that that's also some of
the biggest problems that i see with quarterbacks is not having an understanding of how to get the
ball out of their hands quick how to be accurate or how to throw the ball far and we do that within
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