OUTLINE

INTRO: How to throw a football and catch

  • the pigskin
  • Steps to throwing it
  • Steps to catching
  • History (1869)

STEPS TO THROW:

  1. Feet
    1. Shoulder width
    2. Step
    3. @ target
  1. Shoulders
    1. aligned
    2. Pointed @ target
  1. Hands
    1. Separate 
    2. Ball by ear
    3. Keep front hand at mouth
      1. Apple metaphor
  2. Movement
    1. Rotate shoulders
    2. Release ball
    3. Twist hand
      1. Thumb to pocket
      2. makes a spiral

STEPS TO CATCH:

  1. Form diamond with hands
    1. Touch pinkies if pass is low
  2. Focus on spin of ball
    1. Track all the way into hands
  1. Use fingertips
    1. Not palms
  2. Cradle the ball in
    1. Soft hands 
    2. Catching egg

Demonstration

Audience interaction

CONCLUSION:

  1. 1860s
  2. steps
  3. fun!
  4. Practice makes perfect