It's the same principle as Pass Rushing. You want to punch through just over the shoulder to immediately get onto the back of the defender. IF (because in looking back quickly I didn't see anyone too horrible) there is somebody way too high, it could be because this group was a mixture of college players, HS players and even some guys doing this on the first day. The point was to see a whole mixture working through to see how the drills benefit most experience levels. Two kids I specifically remember going through these day 1. But you can only swim as low as the defender and the Coach in the video is standing up. It's possible his posture forces a slightly higher swim. But most of these are foot work focused, especially for the new comers. Personally, and everyone might be different, I feel until the feet are right the upper body is a waste of time.
I now see what you are talking about and it is what I had previously said. The players who were at a certain level are golden and the ones who are just being taught weren't being corrected yet since the focus for them was footwork. if you go to 5:10 these next two players are the players who I had worked with the most/longest. You can see how they don't swim high what so ever. They low flip their back arm over the catch arm with a low punch. This is what we would teach once the footwork is right. Glad you asked.
Watch TJ at 5:35 not use any height on his swim at all. This is ideal. But he was several years into doing most of these drills at the time so was expected of him.
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You want to over emphasize sharp whole body plants and kicks in drills to get what we need in game tempo when we are going full speed. For more reference look up videos on noose drill. You'll see similar exaggerated mechanics.
around the 1:47 mark, and in other spots, he lifts his left leg really high. Could you explain the way in which you coached/explained this to your WR's? must have a lot to do with the biomechanics of the turn.Thank you
I am helping to introduce football here in South America. Videos like these are great. With drills to show and teach our guys who did NOT grow up watching/playing this sport like Americans. The have a larger learning curve, but this helps.
sink your hips to lower your center or gravity, speed up the feet as you decelerate then plant your foot with proper angle, then drive the direction knee to your next target... repeat.
Hi David Murray can you pls explain the exact technique to performing the speed cuts both 90 and 45 degrees. I having trouble with both the deceleration and acceleration technique. thanks
because it is always a good idea to exaggerate your drills because in game time you will NEVER do the full exaggeration but your reality will be closer to be as sharp as possible when you cut. If you don't practice emphasizing lifting and directing your leg at full speed with people trying to knock you out it will only be loose and ugly at times. We want to cut quick and go exactly where we need to go with no wasted steps.
Ideally there will be no pause the plant foot immediatly doubles as the push foot with the other knee creating the direction of the cut in the most efficient manner. you see a cut on new athletes or guys who are using this drill as a tool to reinforce creating sharp angles. But they better do a similar drill at some point that emphasis plant push that smoothes out the "pause".
If working on top speed one of the best thing's we've done is to run 300's on the track twice a week at top speed. Maybe 6 times with 2 min in between. Things like this, varying distance, reps, but if you want to get fast, you want to limit the distance but just running 40's doesn't do enough for strides...etc alone.
Which part do you need explained? The star drill works on 2 main "Plant/Push" mechanics WR's need to shed wasted movement/time on cuts for HITCH, PIVOTS...etc Novice WR's will not understand how to plant their foot with the ability to push off that same foot in a straight line to their target. Notice at the corner the cut is 180 degrees (like a pivot route) so the foot must plant at 90. at the middle the cut is 90 degrees (like a Dig..etc) so the foot is angled 45 or more.
