Catching a Football

4. Action Phase

• When the football is thrown towards you, you need to adjust your body to the path of the ball. The window that you created with your hands meets the football on its approach. You catch the football away from your body with the nose of the football entering the window that you created. Immediately, your hands and fingers wrap around the football. On this phase you do not attack the football, you absorb the Force of the thrown ball. You do this by gently bringing the ball into your body as the catch is being made. 

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