You have no idea what you are talking about.
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You have no idea what you are talking about.
We use tennis balls all the time in AAU basketball skills practice. Develops a lot of hand eye coordination. Steph Curry uses tennis balls alot in his dribble drills (ex: dribbling with left hand while catching tennis balls thrown to you with your right and vice versa).
Some of my family is from Savannah and they grew up playing Half-Rubber, so I learned that when I would go visit. You basically use a broom handle to hit a baseball sized piece of rubber that has been cut in half, so one side is flat. That flat half-ball was incredible training for hitting curves
I can't believe we got a 31+ post thread on video of a player catching tennis balls.
Amazing how our emphasis has changed since we all concluded that last year's off season program was shat
Jerry Rice preferred bricks!
Julio Jones did a video on this kinda thing...
https://youtu.be/DqNfzDPrg0I
Not really that the hands need to be soft, but that the fingers need to be strong. Fingers catch balls, not palms.
That?s why these are a thing:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CMHBJ7W..._PL4mEb3MDWBR0
You right. Posted that before I actually thought thru how I actually do catch a ball. Then went and tried it to be sure. It's always been instinctive to me and no one ever "taught" me that I can remember. I've always had pretty good hands, or whatever .. fingers I guess.
In any event tho I think Leach probably is pretty good at training his WRs.
Hope this is a joke. Doing drills like this are the very thing that will help our players and apparently the reason we have had bad WR play and more drops than anyone else in division one.
Baseball teams do drills like this all the time. We used to hit soft toss with small olastic golf balls with a thunderstick. Made a baseball with a baseball bat look like a beach ball.