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Language Arts John-Logan Bisig Rough Draft How to Oct 31, 2011 Catch it right “Dropping the ball is a sin.”(Not really,) but that is what I always thought. My dad has told me “If the ball touches your hands, you catch it.” Football is a very complicated sport and I am easily not the best player ever. Never been good at blocking, tackling and throwing but when it comes to catching, I am not bad. Number one rule for catching a football and for catching anything really is never take your eyes off the ball. The ball needs to be in your eyesight from when it is in the air until it is in your hands. This way you know exactly where the ball is and you know how to catch the ball. Speaking of hands, we all know how much they matter to catching a ball. The thing with a football is do you catch the ball with your hands or your body? If you still catch the ball with your body, you need to learn how to use your hands. If you catch the ball by just grabbing the ball against your body, then the ball could bounce off and you don’t have a tight grip on the ball. Catching the ball with your hands allows you to have a good grip on the ball and you can move faster. Last thing you need to learn is how to catch the ball from where it is thrown to you. If a ball is thrown and goes above your head, you need to put your hands together and put them high above your head to catch it. You can also jump if you have to. If it is thrown straight at your chest, this is where you do not use your body! You put your hands together like a diamond in front of you to catch it. If the ball goes below your waste, you put your hands together and face them down and put them below your waste to catch the ball. Those are my rules of catching a football. They might not be right but they work for me. Practice makes perfect so you also have to practice catching to get better. Just ask your brother or dad to throw with you. That is how I learned.