hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be going over where your elbows
should be when you're throwing and how you can get there we're going to start the video right now
okay so i begin this question a lot lately where people have been asking me about you know what is
a kind of low elbow position or high elbow position how we can make sure that you're
throwing from a you know good position with the elbow when actually going through the throw and
so i just thought i would go ahead and do a a video to hopefully be able to get some more
clarity on it this is kind of a difficult topic to be able to really go more in depth into just
because a lot of quarterbacks i honestly say do not have a bad issue with the elbow height
it might feel like you might be you know not having a good release point within the elbow
but i would say most quarterbacks are actually suffering from load issues right so as they're
bringing the arm back just doing it in a way that ends up promoting a inefficient movement pattern
and that ends up being a bigger part of the reason that the throw is not as good and not as much
about the actual elbow height but i will go into this specific issue now we have a quarterback here
on the left and really you know i don't think the elbow height is necessarily terrible on this but
it is you know on the lower end that what we'll see and really what ends up happening is just
this continual kind of trajectory on the same plane that i think ends up being something that
is not a great thing to do when you're throwing the ball really what you want to be doing is you
want to have some bit of a upward trajectory in the throw so we could see philip rivers you know
everybody always talks about his elbow height and you know how he doesn't throw the ball with
kind of those traditional throwing mechanics and i would actually say that is his mechanics are not
bad right just because he's able to get that elbow up and through he gets there in a really
funky way right so his his load would be somebody who you know doesn't load the ball traditionally
but at the end of the day he gets that elbow up and through right and that is a super important
part of being able to and that's a super important part of actually throwing the ball effectively is
being able to make sure that the elbow is coming up and and through and again you don't want to end
up having it too much on just this like forward plane right because what happens here is that you
really don't get the opportunity to get very much of the actual arm into the throw it ends up being
just a kind of wrist and forearm movement right just because of how he continues to just kind of
drive through this plane it's very unnatural it took me i probably went through 30 or 40
quarterbacks before i actually came to something that i think i could use for the elbow positioning
right so out of 40 quarterbacks at least um you know only one guy really had a big issue with
the elbow again most people have a bigger issue with the load you like the information go ahead
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in the video so i just really quickly want to go over some of and i've shown this video a
good amount of times uh you know i just went through and got a few different quarterbacks
uh throw we got you know zach wilson here you can see where he loads gets that elbow up and through
and then finishes through the throat right not very much wasted movement we got patrick mahomes
loads back drives that elbow up and through right so this ends up being where you guys
want to to be when it comes to actually throwing the ball and really trying to avoid any type of
unnecessary movement with the you know ball going back or you know elbow dropping down below
you know those end up being the bigger things that i see with quarterbacks that are really
that's really impacting their power right we can see josh allen here again just driving that elbow
right up and through so just notice how effective all these guys throwing motions are there's just
no wasted movement right and that ends up being again the biggest thing that i see is just way
too much wasted movement in the throat it's not that the elbow is too low or elbows too high um
you know i see guys that don't get very good wrist flicks right aren't able to get the wrist in the
right position and that's something that i think is really unique to being able to really slow down
the video because then you could really have an understanding of what is going on when the ball is
actually coming out of the hands which i think is super critical in understanding how the athlete's
loading and how we can actually make a difference in the the actual throw mechanics but the also big
thing is is the loading mechanics what do you do to properly load the shoulder and the arm to make
it so you're able to effectively go through the throat a lot of people mess that up whether it is
you know leaning back with their whole body right and getting their body out of the alignment or
you know getting their shoulder in a place where it ends up having to you know initially drop or
getting the ball right too far far back behind the head so the body is ready to throw and the the arm
isn't ready yet so there's a few different things that we'll see that really make a big difference
in the ability to really be as efficient as you can with the throw and that's really what i
do with the breakdowns is that just help you in becoming more efficient as a quarterback right
because that ends up again being the biggest thing is that if you are wasting your motion right any
type of wasted movement is going to reduce power production and so we have to be able to understand
how to be as effective and efficient as we can from a throwing perspective in order to really
maximize power it's the same thing with jumping or any type of force producing movement right
you have to be able to be very very deliberate in each movement that you're making so if you take
any type of additional movement again that's just going to end up weakening your ability to
throw the ball either as far or with as much velocity and so once you do that then that ends
up being the part of the throat that you can't end up fixing right you will end up having to continue
to work on whatever your inefficient movement pattern is until you can actually understand
how to get through it and how to fix it in order to actually see improvements within your
throwing mechanics so that ends up being the big thing that i would say you guys want to be able
to work on and with our quarterbacks i always put a focus on the mechanics right there's no reason
to be doing you know crazy throws that will you know really not transfer over to the game
if you don't have the actual mechanics and the throwing velocity and distance that you need
in order to get yourself to the next level at the end of the day what it takes to get you to
you know a division one college is you got to be able to throw the ball with that velocity where
you can be on one side of the hash and throw come back to the other side of the field and be able to
put that on the line and be accurate with it nine out of 10 times or be able to throw that default
right you have to be able to compete with the guys that are playing at the highest level in order to
actually get that scholarship you're not going to be getting a scholarship because you're rolling
out to the left throwing a 15-yard throw to all the receivers running to the right that's really
just not what quarterback coaches are looking for at the next level they're looking for that
arm strength that's going to be able to actually compete and be able to do something in seven
or seven one-on-ones you know things that will actually be in situational gameplay that will be
you know utilized at that next level so hopefully that makes sense to you guys and again if you
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