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Originally Posted by daggo66
Robert, why do you want your center to snap in that manner? It's sometimes difficult to give an answer as to whether or not something could be ruled a false start without seeing, however answering that question will put you one the right path. For example, are you trying to throw off the defense? Are you trying to draw them offsides? Or is this simply a faster more secure method of snapping and, if that is the case, you should be doing it on every down.
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The separate action of the two hands doesn't necessarily go with my
Horse Fly system, but was more of a general question regarding the ability to snap to various positions in the backfield comfortably without tipping it in advance. Actually it would be better for my system for the snapper to learn one grip and use it for all snaps, so even as the snap wa made s/he wouldn't be tipping the play. But that may not be feasible with kids given the skill and amount of practice time. More to the point, I was asking for formations like the single wing where the snap might go in several directions, but where the snapper might want to use a 1-handed snap for the fullback or tailback, but be unable to feed the blocking back with just that one hand. It might be a sharply angled snap to the right, for which the snapper would have to use the left hand, with or without the right hand. And I've seen that young snappers will have a freer swing of their dominant hand to snap deep if they rest their non-dominant hand on the ground. But that hand can be very close to the ball.
So the snap can't be the same on every down, because it depends where the snap is going, but it's not to draw the defense offside. It'd be much too fast to draw them offside anyway, because once that left hand moved, it'd be just a tiny fraction of a second before it contacted the ball and started to move it. There's no pump faking or hand faking; the deception is not about
when the snap occurs, but
where the ball goes. Technically, the snapper's left hand is "beating the snap" by a tiny bit. It would be of the same degree of infraction as the snapper's starting to dorsiflex his head an instant before starting the ball's movement.
Robert