what's everyone morey croson here from the performance lab of California we're gonna do
a video here today we're actually to make this a free video for everybody we've been getting this
request for video just for for kids for younger athletes what are some of the basics that you
can teach the kids I mean one of the first things I'd say would just be holding the football how to
put the hands on the laces there's a few things you can go into there and that's just based off
of you know where the comfortability is we can go into a video wave more more in depth in the laces
but essentially what you want to do is you want to create than you in your actual hand when you're
holding the ball and so as long as you're able to get there you know the lacing is how you put your
fingers is you know dependent on you most spots will make it so you end up getting to that uniform
you just don't want to make it so it's too far up and you can't really have you only have that gap
or you're you're too far here where you also don't really have that gap right so you want to be able
to have a little bit of gap in between the ball and your hand I have a little bit of it over you
and there's not just from the laces perspective the big thing I'll concentrate on for regular you
know youth kids is not so much of all the crazy weight transfer and stuff like that it's things
like when you're coming forward just not dropping that elbow cable so you're coming here and you
have that elbow high you don't want to make it so you know you come down you want to make sure that
everybody you're you're bringing the elbow up and you're transitioning from a position of kind of a
medial spot to an upper you know it's a raise of your actual mechanics and that will make it so
then you can get the really probably the most out of this row if you can I would say you do want to
try to work on you know some type of transition so make it so you know when you're loading
you hit the back foot on your three-step drop or even when you're beginning this rope you want to
transition from the back leg and - you know shifting your weight forward and being able
to feel your body go from you know back to forward and then be able to after the throat have a pretty
upright posture basically one of the things you'll see a lot with you look younger athletes
is when they try to throw they're gonna end up way off to the side or they're gonna end up you
know maybe even really far back there are certain things you'll see where they're trying to use too
much spine trying to really overcompensate for the throw those other things that you want to
just try to help with and the way to hope that it's going to be focusing more on rotation and
shifting your weight from the back leg on to the front leg and once you get too caught up in you
know really trying to put a lot behind it that's when you're gonna end up you know either shifting
off to the side of a lot or having the spine back I think really the most important thing for
younger athlete is making sure that the spine is in a good safe position and that is really pretty
much upright okay once you end up having back or forward names something to put yourself so I
decide - you're starting to put yourself a little bit more at risk and I think that would be a key
thing that you want to make sure to work on as an overall athlete and the last thing that I would
say is try to make it so the front leg is not expending too much Genk or for younger athletes
I think you get into that a lot and that's really a tough habit to correct and not really a great
habit to have as a quarterback just because more of your force generation thing should be coming
from your back leg okay and if you're using soup too much in your front leg that means that your
front leg is really the dominating force behind a throw so if you can work on that and try to
improve that I think you're gonna be in a lot better position down the road it does go into
your front leg is supposed to be a very stable strong leg as you're transitioning your weight
forward but it doesn't need to be something that is moving a whole bunch from going through a lot
of range of motion okay wants to be more stable more something that is really absorbing all of
your weight and we talked about that in our videos but this is really more for kids and what you can
kind of focus on for kids and if you're watching you know eight-year-old throw or six-year-old
throw what are some big things that you can you could work on for them and again I think
that elbow height is number one you know make sure that they're not dropping down within their elbow
the next thing is going to be where that spine position is make sure that spine is maintaining
good neutral posture and the last thing trying to make sure that that front leg is able to absorb
well and it's not going through a whole lot of range of motion so that's the video if you have
any questions please reach out to me by name or my email is morning mo Lauri y at your performance
laughs calm we have a whole throw breakdown you could do I think that would be great for anybody
that has any further questions what to be a little bit more detailed with the more individualization
about their throw and how they can prove it and also check out more of our membership this is
gonna be a free video it's gonna be a part of our full membership and the membership goes deep into
how you can throw a football better we bring it down into individual stages we do the same
thing for speed we do the same thing for pitchers I mean we really want to hone in on the mechanics
of your movement how you can get the most out of whatever you're trying to do fruits throw run jump
all those things are really what we're trying to make sure that you have good biomechanics flow
because if you have good biomechanics you're gonna stay healthy which is the most important to us but
then also you're gonna be able to perform at an optimal level so as always thanks for watching
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