hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we'll be going over how to properly transfer the
elbow through during the throw this is a common thing that i see when quarterbacks quarterback
sending breakdowns they end up getting a lot of wasted time as they're transitioning the the elbow
through so they'll get to that initial load and that'll just be a lot of wasted time coming back
behind the head you know doing things like this that just makes it so the ball ends up coming out
a lot less efficiently which makes it so you have added release time as well as
uh less amount of velocity so as always guys if you like the information go ahead and click
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right so when you go through the throw what you want to end up doing is you want to go through a
loading sequence something that's going to get the elbows back get the shoulder prep
and then from there there wants to be a nice smooth transition where your elbow's coming up
then the the arm is rotating through and the ball is coming towards the target and so what
ends up happening is there ends up being this time period where a lot of quarterbacks will get
stuck where they they go through the load and then they come back here and the ball ends up
back behind the head instead of keeping the ball a little bit more away from the body and making
it so there's just a nice easy transition where the ball comes back and then comes right up and
through and the big thing that that happens or the big reason that that happens is that
as you're loading what ends up happening is there ends up being this time period where instead of
bringing the elbow through right and focusing on being able to allow your shoulder to stretch
you end up going and bringing the ball back behind the head and it ends up just being a you know
biomechanical thing that we need so what happens with the shoulder is we want to be able to stretch
it before we shorten i talked about this a lot the stretch sorting cycle it's the same thing that you
know when you load for a jump you need to first go and load before you can spring through it's the
same type of thing with the shoulder so what you need to do is you need to be able to create some
type of stretch before you can actually create power and the the force that you need to to throw
the ball and so what there's there's a couple different ways to actually stretch the shoulder
and one of them is to get the ball way back behind the head so this is actually stretching
the shoulder this is putting the actual you know load that you need to be able to then throw the
football to shorten the muscles but what you end up missing here is that the other ability to
actually load the ball comes from keeping the ball further away so this is also external rotation
what ends up happening is quarterbacks just have a bad habit of creating external rotation back here
right instead of being able to create external rotation over here so you need to be able to do
to fix this is you just need to first feel what that external rotation feels like when the ball
or your hand is away from your body like this and then get to that that loading position
naturally from there then you'll be able to actually implement that into your throw and
just create that external rotation that way rather than having to create external rotation
like this if you get the ball stuck behind your head a lot and have that issue the reason is
because your brain has actually learned and taught itself to stretch by getting the ball back there
right and and that's not necessarily incorrect because you can actually do that you know that's
not like a thing that isn't possible but it's just inefficient right to be able to throw the ball
more efficiently you want to be able to create that stretch with the ball further away from your
body so be able to work on just stretching out further away from you and that should help you
in making it so you don't waste too much time back here you'll be able to get the ball come coming
smoothly straight through when you're actually throwing all right as always guys thanks for
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