How to Long Snap a football (Field Goals / Punts)

hello Joe Cardona um play football at Navy and I'm here with the kicking system teach you guys the basics of long snapping all right um to start out with first thing you

want to teaches hand placement throwing hand dominant hand just like you're grabbing a ball right there all right um off hand it's your

guide hand you're going to want to place it anywhere up the ball middle finger the seam uh thumb right about there it should make a little

triangle all right from there you can teach basic drills just to teach them how to release the ball from here the right hand should still be dominant when they throw the ball the left hand should

only guide it should only be an in it should only be a tool to help make a spiral um really when you're when you're doing this drill when just overhand toss through you just want to stress uh

releasing the ball at the fingertips and finish with the thumbs pointing down um it should look like [Music] this that should be the that should be

the uh release position um teaching index fingers pointing towards your target thumbs pointing down balls releasing out the finger tips that's really going to teach them how to make a

spiral all right what we're going to work on now is uh foot position um feet should be a little wi in the shoulder width um you know a good comfortable

athletic stance you're going to know teach him to his Basics you know getting into it it should be more like o alignment um not a lot of weight on the hands you know you're going to have to throw a ball so

you don't want a lot of weight on the hands um you're going to want to teach them that uh you know you're going to get down you're going to grab the ball just like you did in the overhand

tosr and uh to get them started just have them just have them sit here and follow through you know finishing with that overhand toss hand hand placement this

is just going to teach them basic basic fundamentals of you know snapping um you don't even have to have them snap a ball at first you just have them here and snap it snap ghost snaps just like that

and that's just going to teach them the basics of uh the technique um and how they're supposed to do it when it comes time to you know actually snap a football um you can slow it down which

is a good tool for you know just teaching how to do it right um so what you'd want to do is you want to have either a five count or three count for their snaps so you'd

be here so from the starting position you just be one 2 3 four five ending with your eyes through hands through and

hamstrings locked out um hamstrings are going to be locked out for Speed um eyes through and hands through you know really stressing that because that's where all the consistency

comes from and that's what you need in a snapper I mean you don't need tremendous speed at first all you really need is that consistency you know on the follow through and that's what's going to it's

that slow down snap this time with the ball we're going to follow all the way through we're going to teach them how to release the ball off the fingertips but slow down um right now we're focusing on

form um not speed basically the release is going to be in the wrist so here's what's here's what it's going to look like [Applause]

[Music] really exaggerating that follow through working on that consistency working on the release on the fingertips and this is what it should look like all put

together I