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Summary: When catching a football as a wide receiver, it's important to catch the ball with the hands, as opposed to catching it against the body. Discover different ways to catch a football with help from a personal trainer in this free video on how to play wide receiver in football.
P. J. Kabodee is a personal trainer at Bally's Total Fitness. In high school, he was MVP for the season for basketball, football and baseball.read more
"The next rule for the position of wide receiver is catching the ball. Now you could either catch the ball with your hands or you could either catch the ball with your body but a lot of our receivers choose to catch the ball with there hands and them pull it in to there body. But sometimes you can catch the ball with your body and it is not a good catch you can fumble it or hit your the wrong way. So in speed timing games a lot of people do it different a lot of our receivers will switch it up they would catch it with there bodies, they would catch it with there hands, they would catch it with whatever they want to catch it with. Which way they want to catch it with so knowing this demonstration I can catch it with my body or I can even catch it with my hands. "
eHow Article: How to Catch a Football as a Wide Receiver