hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be going over how to make sure
the ball is coming off your index finger when you're throwing this is something i've really
been diving deep into the last few days as a few quarterbacks have been reaching out to me would
really like some more insight in here so i really want to be able to provide some valuable feedback
so if this helps make sure to leave that in the comments section down below i'm just going to go
ahead and hop right into the video we'll tell you about everything else at the end so first thing
that we're going to go to and then i think the back side is is better i you know the unfortunate
thing this is me obviously throwing and you know the unfortunate thing is whenever i'm looking at
my mechanics i just see all the different mistakes that i have within the throw but here i'm really
putting a big focus on making sure i'm getting full hip extension something i've been talking
about a lot more in the video so you can see what that looks like where you're really pushing
off coming forward notice how i'm not getting my leg to turn too much inside too early i'm
getting a push and creating rotation there again that's really the big focus but with quarterback
mechanics there's just so many things that go into it but going back to the the the hand and the
reason i bring that up is because just throwing you know with receivers and people i i've realized
the more that i put an emphasis into my lower body and the activation within the lower body i think
it takes some of the pressure off the shoulder the elbow the wrist which makes it so it's a
lot smoother of a throw and the ball i think comes out of my hand a lot better so that's a big thing
when it comes to you know throwing the football is you got to be able to use your your lower body
your core to make it so you don't put as much stress on your arm because i think again the
more that you put the stress on the arm the more likely that you are to lose the grip and the ball
not come out of your index finger all right so and then or off your index finger the next thing
here that that you know stood out to me is as i'm coming through you know there ends up being that
point where you're about to release the ball and what happens is you start to kind of turn the hand
see how that's happening here as we're getting to the to the end how my hand begins to kind of turn
so now my fingers are kind of getting underneath the ball and it's starting to come the initial
kind of release is happening where all my the the laces all my fingers come off the laces
and then what kind of propels it forward ends up being kind of that push within the index finger so
right here the only thing that's on the ball is my index finger and then you can see how it comes off
and kind of rolls off there right at the end and then from there you naturally kind of go into a
continual rotation through with your hand and your wrist and so you know that would be a big thing to
me is as the ball's leaving your hand you want to be kind of flicking the the hand forward and then
rotating it through to make it so it's actually turning over okay and also making sure that as
you're you're actually releasing the ball that you're allowing your your hand to be in a position
where there's a bit of a rotational release within your your fingers and the laces first
right and being able to feel that and then let the index finger you know come in and throw or
come off the ball i know my left arm is i'm really upset that my left arm is in the position that
it is right there but anyway i just want to point that out because that is definitely a flaw i don't
want to make it seem like that isn't something that i didn't do correct there bad habit that
i've had i was just focusing so much i think on my hand that i lost focus on my front arm but anyway
going back to you know the throw here in the position of the the wrist and and the hand and
so notice again here the the space that i try to create within my fingers right i try to get
a really wide position with my hands and so you can see how low my pinky is in the on the ball
and then also how high my index finger is so this makes it a lot easier for the initiation
of that kind of roll to happen and the the hand to or all the fingers except for the index finger
to be able to come off and you can also notice the position of my thumb to middle finger how they're
about even right so that's mostly where the grip and holding the ball comes from is between that
middle finger and the thumb right i don't have particularly large hands i think they're pretty
average for my height so i don't think it's a hand thing right so you can't really say oh man
my hands are too small or my hands are too big or whatever um or or any of your hands are too normal
right uh and just don't get yourself too caught up in that in the first place you don't want to be
finding reasons why you can't do something just overall you want to find reasons why
you can do something not reasons that you can't do something so the more often you can figure out why
you can achieve something i think that's really more the mentality that you want to come into
not only to be successful as a quarterback just to be more successful in life in general and you know
so you could go and see where my middle finger is and where my thumb is and then from there you
know again the last thing that kind of comes off of it is just that index finger and it's pushing
forward right see how it's right there and it's pushing forward and then kind of rotating through
as the release is happening so you got to make sure that you have that movement happening within
the shoulder i think because that really helps you see how it's like a natural movement through the
wrist through the hand as you're coming through so if you lose the the position so if your hand is
just kind of more straight down um right like just more of a this type of emotion then there might be
more of a propensity to push off with the middle finger because it's a little bit longer right so
then that could happen but when you're rotating and you're allowing the the fingers to come off
the laces and then from there kind of creating that that push at the very end that's what allows
you to get that that index finger to be the last finger to come off which i think is critical
when it comes to being able to generate a nice spiral i think it's general it's it's critical
to be able to create the right types of velocity right because when i was doing i was throwing bad
as well and you know when i was not throwing good like this one i took i didn't even hit the actual
thing because i was trying to uh you know be be off to the side the best that i could and try to
like push the ball and you know trying the best that i can not to have my index finger and you
could see that you know in order for me to not have my index finger on the ball i really had to
allow the nose of the football to be kind of off to the side and then i also had to really kind
of like flick my wrist more downwards as i was coming through it was really hard to do to make
it so i'd like not throw the ball correctly and even though the ball comes out of my hand that
bad at the very beginning it actually does kind of turn back over and is able to get into somewhat of
a spiralized i don't even know if that's like a good example overall of a throw because i've seen
guys that throw a pretty nice spiral but the balls coming off of their middle finger so um you know
i didn't want to really use much of these other examples just because it's really not a very good
indication to me of you know what actually happens during during the throw even this one you could
see you know i think my middle finger was a little bit later but then my index finger still looks
like it's kind of on the ball and then the ball is still like not really again i've seen spirals when
it's coming off of people's middle fingers and i've i mean i've had this issue before too where
it comes off for me it was more of my ring finger when i was throwing deeper throws and you know i
think for that was just because i was trying to get too much of my arm into the throw and wasn't
focusing as much on the lower body the more that i was able to get my lower body into it take a
little bit wider of a step a little bit longer of a step and then really adjust my shoulder height
and made it so i was more consistently able to get the index finger to be the last part of the of the
hand that touches the ball but you know before that i definitely struggled with the ring finger
being the last one just because i was trying to create too much force through my through my arm
and through my wrists in my opinion but it could have also been the position of my grip i have
changed up my grip a little bit since then so uh that could have also played a big a big part
because that was mostly an issue that i suffered when i was in high school in college and and
didn't have as much quarterback guidance or even understanding of the body and biomechanics all
right so um yeah guys hope this helps you out i i hope that wasn't too long-winded hope you're able
to stay with me here and you know i definitely say big thing is you got to practice you have to
to continue to throw the ball you should be throwing the ball you know at least 50 to 100
times a day i'm not necessarily 100 as hard as you can but just taking those throws and feeling the
rhythm of how the ball wants to leave your hand and getting some consistency with different angles
throwing it to the right throwing it to the left throwing it you know a little bit higher up and
then just throwing it right on the line straight ahead all right as always thanks for watching the
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