hey what's up everyone morey croson stood here from the performance lab of california and we're
gonna do it another breakdown here today on troy aikman Hall of Fame quarterback from the Cowboys
and got a few requests for portrayed troy aikman in the last couple weeks and soap and wanting to
do this really was hard to find good quality content for Troy even with these ones you
know we're gonna do a couple D Falls and then underneath kind of close up just being I mean
they're just sayin isn't very much quality videos of them there's a lot of stuff where
it's hard to see but you know I think this is gonna be I guess this'll have to work this is
the best quality stuff that I was able to find so first we'll start off with the back one the
deep balls are you know he was able to throw a lot of deep balls he had some fast receivers and also
having that run game they had I mean that kind of opens up the pass so we'll get into the the
throw here so big thing that we see with guys on the throne be balls one raised in the front
shoulder other one kind of dropping the ball a little bit so the the release ends up being
you know how you're loading with that back arm ends up being longer on those deep balls now a
key thing do we need to be able to understand when you're throwing that deep ball is that elbow here
can't drop a as you're lifting up that ball here that elbows got to be going up in order to help
you get a little bit more force in the ball ok another big thing is you got to get that front
foot down okay so getting that front foot down see I was able to do that and now he gets that
rotation so you see when he gets once you can get to this ability to kind of open up in that front
hip open up within the spine that's gonna be a key component of really being able to maximize
your throwing velocity as well as your throwing distance and so you know notice I was able to get
a lot of rotation that he does kind of similar to what Aaron Rodgers does where he pushes off
the ground as he's going into the throw so he's getting ground force in that front that front leg
where he's pushing out but notice how he keeps the knee bent it's not like he's pushing up and
letting that knee extend he's keeping a good angle within his knee within his hips as it's
going forward and that's what helps him really create a lot behind the ball another big thing is
gonna be that that wrist notice how he continues rotation even after the throw he keeps on driving
that leg all the way through it's going to be a crucial part of being able to maximize your
overall throwing velocity so in order to to keep that that velocity even when you're throwing a
deeper throw you got to be able to continue some of the same mechanics and one of the big things
that I see is that a lot of times as you're going through the throw guys will end up stopping the
their thrower stopping their their motion without that deeper throw which is gonna end up impacting
your ability to utilize the lower body right if you're stopping then you're trying to basically
use all arm you're changing your mechanics you gotta have good consistent mechanics no matter
if it's on a deep ball or throw it underneath ball it's all got to be pretty pretty similar
okay here's another deep ball here a little bit closer faked out the camber a little bit there
but notice to notice how he's pushing off that back leg and he's getting that foot down and
then from there see how he's opening up with that that front that the front part of the body this
stretch that he's getting right here is something that is actually really rare and hard to be able
to achieve as a you know younger quarterback so being able to really get that your your front
part of the body to open up is something that's super important in order to maximize your ability
to use your whole body when throwing okay now this allows him to really get a lot into his arm really
because because what ends up happening is it's a continual load right so even even this even
though it's part of his release this is a loading strategy within that right arm right so being able
to open up with that that front shoulder keeping good groundedness within this front leg those are
all loading strategies that make it so he's able to generate more floors more force more force and
then now even here now it's just kind of letting it go with the arm but if your your arm can only
do so much so he's still maximizing his is his fourth production within within the arm but all
of the force from the lower body from the hips from the spine are all getting transmitted upwards
which is creating more and more and more and more force output and then the arm is just kind
of a way of you know it is absorbing all of that and using that to to put the further distance in
and that's that's the concept that you want to understand is that for you to be able to throw
the ball further it starts with how you step with that left foot and how you're creating force with
that left foot kind of pushing your body upwards and really you know as weird it sounds how well
you can you can for most guys how well you can create force in your arm is going to be directly
in directly based off of how well you're able to push down with that left foot and the reason is
is because as you're able to have that super stable base now everything else can kind of
catapult off of that and so if we're able to get the the right range of motion or the right force
on that front leg now we're able to create a much more force within the hip so you can see how much
he's using his hips how much is rotating in the hips now you're able to rotate more within the
core and it's similar to like when you're doing a hand clean for instance so you know the force
starts as you're pushing off the ground with your you know with those ankles and then it goes into
the hips and then it goes into the arms and how well you're able to and how fast you're able to
swing the arms whatever you just go and you just go through the motions within the the fleet ankles
and hips now you end up trying to use all arms and get your hand clean which is not gonna make
it so you have as much result as if you're using your your foot your ankle your your hips your
core okay so I hope you can understand that that connection where it's we need to be able to first
generate the force in the foot in the hips in the core and then by creating all that force now we
can transmute that through that arm which when you when you let go now you're gonna be able to
create more force within the arm but if you just try to use all arm in order to throw you're gonna
end up disappointed all right it's a very very important concept okay last one's gonna be you
know can't get a great view of him just throwing it underneath ball both of these balls were we're
pretty deep but you know again notice how he and and you know the front shoulders gonna obviously
be a debate we'll think some guys able are able to keep that shoulder in but he opens that shoulder
up out initially to then be able to kind of lock that in when he's coming through so he has this
ability to create you know open up that shoulder early but then you know stop that rotation and
keep that with that front hand at the breastplate okay so you know what ends up happening with a lot
of guys is they let that let that we open up that this left shoulder here but then they also let
this left hand get all the way away so now this ends up they end up waiting way off over to the
side and Troy Aikman kind of has a little bit of that side lean and and can probably get a little
bit more rotation within that front hip but what he does effectively or how he's able to get away
with it is because he he really does a good job of locking that left hand in which makes it so he's
able to better control his overall his accuracy and and that ball coming through now you know a
very important thing that I also want to notice notice here is a lot of times when you see these
guys open up really early with that front arm they end up not being able to get this ball to be right
over the elbow no you can't see this really good okay right now you can see how that ball is right
over the elbow okay and he comes through and and it's pretty well in like a 90 degree angle here
okay what a lot of times happens when you open up this little this front shoulder is this ball gets
away and gets released off to the side over here okay but he does a good job of controlling that he
locks that in with his bicep and with that arm to make it so he doesn't lose good positioning
of that forearm okay his release is a little bit outside the elbow but not like when I see a lot of
guys where they end up releasing their arms like at a 45 degree angle okay something to definitely
be able to manage and definitely be able to understand if you're one of those guys that
opens up that front shoulder a little bit early you got to make sure you're using that bicep to
keep your keep that ball from getting away from ya and that's another big thing that's gonna go
into overall arm strength and being able to to throw the ball for a big distance alright so as
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