hey what's up everyone Morey Croson here and today we're going to be going over one of the most
overlooked parts of gripping the football and we're going to start the video right now
alright so i was working with an athlete earlier this week and it really came to me
that the relationship between that index finger and the thumb is super super important in order to
really help you as a quarterback in gripping the football and that ends up being really you know an
important part of being able to get the ball out of your hands quickly being able to effectively
flick the wrist which we talk about all the time and there's a lot of quarterbacks to talk about
how important the wrist flick is when it comes to throwing velocity and throwing power and also
making it so you're able to get the ball in the right position so you're coming downwards on the
football uh instead of going and like pushing the football right there's some people that end up
having a thing where they're like trying to push the ball it almost seems like where you know that
ends up really being ineffective when it comes to throwing the ball the most the muscles you want
to be using are those lats and the serratus and really pulling downwards on the ball as you're
coming through so what i'm i think is really important here is how you hold the ball with your
index finger and with your thumb right so you can see i'm lifting these additional three fingers and
i'm just holding the ball with my index finger with my thumb and you know from there that gives
me the opportunity to really see where i should be holding the football right once i can go here
you know i'm going to hold it and be able to lift up with my you know additional fingers and then
from there i can go and kind of grip it from that position and so you want to be aware of how you
can hold the football the best you can with that index finger with that thumb and that relationship
that squeezing you know like i'm really squeezing with those two muscles or those two
fingers primarily you know as i'm gripping the football there's a little bit into my pinky you
know i would say if we can would go like probably 60 to 70 percent of my you know overall force
here is in my index fingers in my thumb you know maybe there's like five to ten in my pinky um and
the these other three fingers here so most of it's in the thumb most of it's in in the index finger
as i'm going so then i could really get on top of the football and come through now i do want to
say this is what works for me right everybody's going to have different ways of being able to
you know hold the football and have a lot of success so if you're having a lot of success
currently how you're holding the football and when you try to do this this doesn't make any
sense to you or doesn't feel correct then i would say don't do it you know everybody has there's
not one way to throw football right there's a million different ways to throw a football
and there's going to be one specific way that's right for you and that's what we try to do within
you know quarterback university or within our throw program is really try to understand how
you can utilize your body to get more out of your throw whether it's increasing your release time
whether it's generating more power more throwing velocity throwing the ball further all those
things come into play when it comes to and also your goals right if you're trying to throw the
ball further then we want to be able to optimize your body to be able to throw the ball further if
you're trying to get the ball out of your hands faster same thing so you know just because you're
throwing the ball you know really far and you might have a grip that's not working for you
or the grip is working for you currently and you do it like this you know that doesn't mean
that you're throwing the ball incorrectly you know you might have a certain grip within your hands or
there's a ton of different things that go into each individual when it comes to you know how to
develop correct throwing mechanics i think there's a lot of people that make that mistake where you
know you're trying to replicate too much like how josh allen throws a high pass from home throws or
how tom brady and you know i do those breakdowns to be able to really get a good understanding of
what do all these guys do effectively right it's not that what does tom brady do
or what does patrick mahomes do it's what do all these quarterbacks all the top quarterbacks do
that makes it so they are at the highest level so i look for repeated patterns
not one particular thing within their mechanics so if this ends up helping the relationship really
feeling that relationship between the index finger and the thumb then great you know definitely try
to implement that but if it doesn't then you know i would say don't implement it so you know i would
really though especially for your younger athletes if you're struggling with that wrist position
that index finger in the thumb that relationship is really really really critical to help you get
in that really quality wrist flick when you're throwing the football all right as always if you
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