Monday, March 7, 2011

Steps to the Chest Pass

Step 1:
Keep ball clenched close to the body and away from any defender

Shoulder Girdle - Both in abduction pronating with upward rotation holding the ball close to the body parallel to the ground.  Your Pectoralis Major is also contracting eccentrically as the Pectoralis Minor is concentrically contracting.

Elbow - Elbows are in flexion as the Biceps Brachii are contracting eccentrically and the Triceps Brachii concentrically contracting.

Wrist - Both wrists, hands, fingers and thumbs are in flexion holding the ball tight and close to the Pectoralis Major and Pectoralis Mnior with the Flexor Digitorum superficialis with the flexor pollicis longus contracting concentrically.  Both wrists are in flexion eccentrically contracting their flexor carpi radialis

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