how do you improve your catching a football skills even though im pretty good?

Answer 1

When you are practicing hold your hands as if you are making a diamond shape.as you are catching the ball always envision on catching the ball through that diamond.A good drill for this is .Turn your back Have some one through you the ball have them say now on that command turn and catch the ball through the diamond.

Answer 2

First I would start out with your normal pitch and catch with a partner.

Then try this. Start with your back turned to the thrower and then have him start throwing balls. When the ball gets about 1/4 to 1/2 way have him yell. This will make you know to turn around and react quickly.

Another good exercise is to play pitch and catch with those tiny nerf balls. They're really small and require soft hands.

Lastly, I'd suggest getting four people to stand around you about 10 yards aways from you. Then have them start throwing balls in a pattern (left to right, etc...) and try to catch the balls as fast as you can.

These are some of the drills that I give to players and they seem to work really well. I've been studying football for years now and they're widely used.

Answer 3

Hand-eye coordination is a good thing to work on, but nothing beats learning how to catch a football better than using an actual football. As a tight end, you will likely be running more short routes than not, so have your QB, before and/or after practice, run timing routes with you; z-outs, box-ins, short curls, and work on "diamond hands", i.e. make a diamond shape with the thumb and forefinger of yuor hands, and focus on catchiung the point of the ball in the middle of the diamond. This automatically causes your hands to close around the ball and gives you more control, rather than trying to trap it against your body. Practice, pratice, practice.

Answer 4

Practice. You should play catch with other people so you can have practice catching over other people.

Answer 5

play a lot of catch with friends. get one of those football launcher things and grease the football up. do a lot of hand excersizes to strengthen your fingers.

or if calvin johnson dies try to buy his hands and get them transplanted onto you.

Answer 6

first learn to catch with just your hands,
if you can do that learn to look the ball in and catch with just your fingers

Answer 7

all you got to do is pratice alot. do a bunch of different drills with catching until your satisfied that your good.

Answer 8

i know you think i dont know what im talking about but i do you should practice everyday and always place your hands pretty close together.i should know.

Answer 9

keep running never stop use your hands not your chest and make sure u dont drop u playin for a team