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what's up everyone morey croson here from the performance lab of California and we have another
quarterback mechanic video today the focus is going to be on elbow drive and when I see a lot
with quarterbacks ents are going through their motion is they have some type of drop in their
elbow some type of awkward movement that's happening within their throw that's greatly
impacted their ability to maximize the performance as well as reduce elbow soreness elbow pain elbow
problems and anything that goes within those lines and so go ahead and hop right into it so
what I'm talking about is as you're going forward in your throw so you go back you load and you're
starting to transition your elbow forward what ends up happening is that instead of going here
and then bringing that elbow up and through you go to here and you drop your elbow down somehow
okay and a lot of times it seems to happen from some type of tightness within that front part of
the shoulder so if you have your if your shoulder somewhat rounded forward or how you have some type
of weird lack of range of motion here it's going to impact your ability to get your elbow up and
through because as you're getting your elbow up and through what you're doing is you're putting
a large amount of external rotation which is this on your shoulder joint so you're challenging your
shoulder joint through external rotation rather than being able to maximize or order you're
putting on a center of rotation rather than what you're stuck in is in is internal rotation so if
you're here and then you're coming down underneath what you're trying to do is you're trying to bring
this your shoulder forward or internally rotate than extra protein so that's why a big part of
our program is creating more external rotation so in order to correct this as a few different
things one when you load back you want to think about loading back and bringing your shoulder
blade back as well and making sure your shoulder is right in alignment so if I was gonna draw a
line right through my shoulder you can see that everything is nice and straight and even it's not
here right so there's a lot of guys as they're loading that keep this kind of locked here and
that what that does that make this so now when you come up you end up having to dip that elbow
underneath okay so that's one of the things that that is up happening another thing that could end
up happening is you get into what they call the Double L position where you're getting to an L
position twice so you go here and you go into this out and then you go up and just like that
okay so it's this one first and then here and now what happens is now you're initiating the throat
from this position so when you're trying to come forward now you know the ball gets stuck behind
you and your elbow and inevitably has to drop okay so now it's coming down as you're coming around a
lot of times would end up also happening is you know both of those parts of here you go boom and
then you go boom and then when you come around you end up coming off to the side throwing the
ball off to the side lose my integrity of my wrist rather than keeping my wrist up top like that now
I'm gonna end up coming around during the throw rather than being able to come up and over the top
and keep that really good overall risk positions okay the last part that ends up impacting your
ability to keep your elbow in in a good position is just your initial loading position so the other
tool we did is we we talked about the movement pattern from you know having a good initial load
but now this one will be from heavy and not a good initial load so there's a few different bad loads
that can cause your elbow to come down as well one of them can be having the ball too close to
your check so when you load back you want to get that ball away from your chest it may be CI play
important to try the double through if the elbows - or the ball is too close to your chest whatever
the packing is that then you end up having to dip your elbow underneath it to start off another big
one would be your initiating you have your elbow up and you have your ball the ball down okay
so now here what ends up in that have to happen is you have to go here in order we get the ball
ball coming through so if your initial load isn't right as well now you're not going to be able to
properly fire that that elbow up and through and that that's really the big the big thing
that we're trying to calculate here is how can we effectively drive that elbow up and through the
actual throw and get to that good arm side socket or arm slot so and what that should look like is
I'm going to show you here with the overall front you look like it should be here into this position
and then elbow right up and through right up and forward it and through okay so really Drive
that elbow files and a half you know there's one drill we go here and you drive your elbow
through and you have your hand here where you're just focusing on driving that elbow driving that
elbow okay you just work on that notice how I'm never dropping here I'm just going right
up and prove right up through that's really what that elbow should look like you know obviously
different eights could be brought about just by by how you overall throw and there could be if
that would be the same because I'm not actually throwing the ball here but that you should around
be how the lead of the other is and you should be around in that angle there's different guys
that have different work shoulder ranges so your forearm can be in a little bit different position
but really it should be from here elbow coming up or staying neutral never the elbow dropping
down as you're going through the throw watching this video I hope you really enjoyed it if you
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