what's up everyone Morey Croson here from the performance lab of California and we're gonna
do another breakdown here today on Steve young lefty gotta love doing breakdowns on lefties
and really one of the big things that stands out to me for for Steve is going to be you know his
ability to create a good amount of rotation also be able to keep a good stable front leg
and we'll just hop right on into the end of the breakdown here so we can see that you know as
he starts and I like this front you drop that ball a little bit down and then as he's coming
through though he does a good job of maintaining that that ball in a good position so he never
really lets it get back behind his head you can see he starts to rotate there with the ball as
he's beginning the process of coming up now he gets his his hips and start rotating very very
early in the throw which makes it so then he's able to open up his shoulders really well and
normally I would say it's not a great thing to be able to open up the shoulders but when he does is
actually very interesting he opens the shoulders up and then he actually stabilizes from there he
watched notice how his left hand begins to raise up as he's coming through now this allows him to
be able to maintain stabilization in the front arm so it ends up happening if you open up typically
so much like how he does here is that it ends up being a hard to be able to stabilize from
you know from from allowing that throw to be a little bit sidearm and he kind of has a little
bit of side on notice how it comes off to the side a little bit there but he's able to create
a lot of wrist action because of his ability to go sidearm and then with the whole thing with the
left shoulder is by him opening up like that and then locking that hand in that makes it so then
he doesn't end up overly rotating so he stops his rotation as he's coming through and that's
another way that he's able to create that snap in that wrist so he's coming through here he's
rotating through with that that front arm now he stops that front arm from rotating by lifting up
that right arm okay so he's lifting up there and then as he's coming through he's also trying to
resist his arm from going out - out - too far out to the side by real snapping that wrist through
which helps them creating a lot of force and probably a lot of accuracy too because he has
a lot of control over the ball so now we'll see from this side now you can see where he gets a
lot of ability to create rotation and his body notice how much pivoting he's doing with that
that back leg banister he's transferring a lot of weight onto his his front leg and again like
I said he's raising up that right arm as he's coming through which is maintenance so he's
able to better contain that torque and then he uses a lot of wrist really strong hands probably
probably pretty big hands to to make it so then he's able to come right through and really put a
lot into the football okay so that's a it's a very interesting throwing release that he has
I'm again very very rotational how he does it now we're gonna look kind of from the back here um but
notice how you know he gets that his weight going forward I mean he obviously is running forward so
you didn't have to do as much of a push up here but he still gets that big amount of rotation
he's able to get a big amount of rotation here in that in that hip and then by creating that
rotation now he's able to just pull and notice also again with that right arm so he's pulling
back with that right arm okay and he opens up big and but then he stops that rotation
by almost lifting up his his right hand to make it so he doesn't overly rotate and again and
instead he just uses that energy by by stopping that rotation to really control that wrist and
create a large amount of snap on the wrist which ends up being a big part of his strength is he
he's able to really generate a lot of the wrist so for the the guys that are more of a rotational
type throwers when you end up doing that you know when you end up creating a lot of that rotation
what you want to do is you want to then utilize that energy into the wrist snap and really have
strong wrists so we gotta definitely work on you know some wrist stabilization type exercises also
the ability to have good mobile wrist there's gonna be two key parts of being able to really
maximize maximize the throat and the way you know that you're just a rotational thrower
just have you seen you open up that front shoulder if you like opening up that front
shoulder pretty early then you're definitely more of a rotational guy if you like keeping
that front shoulder a little bit more closed then you're not as much of a rotational guy more of
just kind of power lower body guy maybe use a little bit more stiffness in the front leg so
there's there's a lot or there's two um I guess different you know either rotational you're not
rotational as a thrower but and Steve Young is definitely a guy this rotational definitely guy
that has a lot of stabilization on that front leg and that really helped him and being the
the quarterback that he was able to be so yeah guys thanks as always for watching these videos
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bit on shoulder strength mid back lower back those types of things all need to be strong all need to
be mobile all need to be able to move correctly until we see anything in there that might not be
right we want to be able to address it and help it help you be able to perform on just that much
higher of the levels so yeah guys as always thanks for watching these videos and we will see you soon