The founder story
I built the QB coaching I needed at 8 years old — and couldn't find at 18.
Former college QB. Years of playing and coaching the position. I built BecomeTheQB so every young QB gets the structured mechanics coaching I had to search years to find.
· Braden Amorozo · Founder ·
I started with a mediocre arm. The mechanics came from the work.
I started playing quarterback at 8 years old in Hawai'i. I was small, not particularly athletic, and didn't have the arm that turned heads. By every measurable standard, I shouldn't have lasted at the position. But I loved it — and I was willing to do the work.
The thing that changed everything was mechanics. Years of reps, exposure to real coaches along the way — including Vinny Passas, who developed Tua Tagovailoa and Marcus Mariota — and the slow realization that throwing isn't just arm strength. It's a system. Footwork, hip rotation, release point, follow-through. When those pieces click, the ball comes out different. You feel it. Coaches see it.
In high school, I became the starter at Waipahu. We went from a winless season to division champions — undefeated through the regular season. We made it to the state semifinals and lost 50–53 in a shootout. That run was built on mechanics. On knowing how to set my feet before the snap, how to drive the ball to the back shoulder, how to step through pressure instead of fading away from it.
Attended camps under Timmy Chang — now the University of Hawai'i head football coach — and kept stacking fundamentals until I walked on at the college level. Fifth string. Earned my way to a starting job.
When I walked on, I was the fifth-string QB. The guys ahead of me threw harder. But I'd put in the mechanical work. I knew how to get the ball out on time. I knew how to repeat my motion under pressure. I knew what a clean release felt like from the inside. That's what mechanics give you — repeatable performance when the stakes are real.
“Mechanics are what get you on the field. The mental game is what keeps you there.”
The mental game matters too — coverages, reads, composure under pressure. It's real, and it's why the free BecomeTheQB app exists. But ATA — the Arm Talent Accelerator — is about the throwing motion. That's what gets evaluated at camps. That's what coaches see in the first five seconds. That's the work.
I kept seeing the same broken pattern in every kid I coached.
At 22 I started coaching youth QBs one-on-one. Talented kids who loved the position but had no structured path forward. And the same three problems kept showing up:
No diagnosis — just reps
They went to practice, threw the ball, went home. Nobody watched the film. Nobody identified what was actually broken in the motion.
No structure between sessions
Practice ended Saturday. Nothing happened until next Saturday. No drill assignments. No feedback loop. No accountability.
No one named the fix
They were told to “throw with more zip” or “step into it.” Vague cues don’t fix mechanics. Specific drills do.
ATA is the fix. A private video breakdown of your QB's throwing motion. Specific drills assigned to the exact flaws in their release. Weekly check-ins so the work actually happens between sessions. Everything I wish someone had built when I was a kid trying to earn my spot.
I needed this at 8 years old. Now it exists.
Built in the margins. Not half-done.
ATA isn't a Loom link dropped in a DM. Every part of the coaching experience — how you send footage, how breakdowns land, how drills get tracked week to week — is set up to make the work actually stick. That's by design.
Right now I'm building this between a full-time job and a new baby on the way. I'm not a full-time trainer with a turf facility and a ten-person staff. I'm someone who played the position, learned from real coaches, built the tools myself, and takes the coaching seriously enough to do it right — even on a tight calendar.
That's the context. What matters to you is whether ATA can help your QB. The fastest way to find out: book a free 15-minute call and we'll talk through where your QB is and whether this is the right fit.
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