Steps to the Overhead Throw

Step 1:

Keep ball located right behind your head so its difficult for your defender to get a hold of it.  Locate your target and get ready to throw

Shoulder Girdle - Your left and right shoulders are both in abduction supernating with internal rotation about 100-115 degrees vertically.  Your pectoralis Major is also contracting concentrically.

Elbow - Your left and right elbow joints are both in abduction in flexion 95 degrees over your head.  Your biceps Brachii is contracting eccentrically while your triceps are contracting concentrically.

Wrist - Both wrists, hands, fingers and thumbs are in flexion with the Flexor Digitorum superficialis with the flexor pollicis longus contracting concentrically.  Both wrists are eccentrically contracting their flexor carpi radialis