Comments on: How to Throw a Perfect Football Spiral: An Illustrated Guide

By: Jackson Blue

Jackson Blue — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 02:10:16 +0000

I could have used this in pop warner haha. I think some nfl qb’s today could use it now!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:10:05 +0000

I read “Peyton Manning’s 3 step guide to throwing a football” in a kids magazine a while ago. It worked amazingly. It assumed you knew how to hold and somewhat throw a football already.

Step 1. “Smack your little brother”. Swing your non throwing arm out and downward as if pushing a little sibling away (the example used Eli).

Step 2. “Limp wrist point” As you release the ball, let your throwing hand very fluidly roll into a point. Also allow the wrist to drop.

Step 3 “Put on the seat belt”. Immediately after step 2, pretend you are putting on a shoulder seat belt with your throwing hand. Start at the point of release and move to opposite hip. Click it in

These steps really helped me to fine tune my spiral.

Another thing I fixed on my own was my awkward crooked spiral. The ball would spin but the X-axis was not straight. It looked as if it almost was moving through the air at a slant. To FIX THIS, point your throwing arm nipple at the receiver/target. I wouldn’t always rotate my shoulders enough. Once I started doing that, my passes were straight, tight spirals.

Good Luck

By: Tryclyde

Tryclyde — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:22:31 +0000

@Mick and Dietrich: Although rugby is definitely a manly game, it’s not as brutal as American football. The fact that players wear pads enables them to launch each other like missiles at each other. I have played both sports, and it hurts a lot more when being hit in football, there’s no question.

By: Troy

Troy — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:59:43 +0000

My very inquisitive 9 year old has forced me to research why is football soccer and gridiron. I have found that ages ago that football was a generic term given to any sport that involved running around on a field. As many of you know, Association Football is the official name for the game of football outside the US. Soccer was it’s name early on when a play on the word “association” was used in 19th century England. Gridiron football developed from rugby with several rule changes including the line of scrimmage and the down and distance rules.

I love the quote in the movie Invictus when it was said “Football (soccer) is a gentleman’s sport played by hooligans and Rugby is a hooligan’s sport played by gentlemen.”

My son’s preferred sport is soccer, but he loves to toss the pigskin with me in the backyard. We are both working on throwing the perfect spiral.

By: Brett McKay

Brett McKay — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:04:50 +0000

@Steve-

I’ll let Joe Montana answer. Watch at about 1:53:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeiwvKtyxdI

By: Steve F.

Steve F. — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:33:01 +0000

Not sure why #5 shows the wrist rotating. By rotating the wrist you will actually throw a wobbly ball not a spiral. Keep the wrist straight and let the index finger point at the target in your follow-through

By: C.J.

C.J. — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:19:58 +0000

If only my brothers were home to play some football. At least I can watch it…

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 18:39:29 +0000

Richard, figures 5 & 6 are both accurate …

By: Claude

Claude — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:40:28 +0000

I live in the US and played rugby at a US university nearly 20 years ago. But thanks for the suggestion to try it.

Yeah rugby is a bad ass sport, but no other sport compares to the collisions in American Football.

By: BYC

BYC — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:25:12 +0000

http://www.primermagazine.com/2012/learn/how-to-throw-a-football-with-a-perfect-powerful-spiral-a-visual-guide

Lol.. who was first?