Vince Vannelle: Undrafted to AA Baseball In Eight Months
Vince Vannelle was no slouch. An All-American closer at [...]
Covariation in Pitching: Leveraging the Power of Joint Coupling and Optimal Length to Maximize Performance and Mitigate Injury Risk
In the world of biomechanics and motor control, few concepts [...]
Self-Organization: Training's Secret Sauce
In baseball and sports in general, athletes and coaches are [...]
Vince Vannelle: Undrafted to AA Baseball In Eight Months
Vince Vannelle was no slouch. An All-American closer at [...]
How Repeating Your Mechanics Can Go Bad
In the world of baseball, there’s a commonly held belief [...]
The Critical Role of The IT Band in Pitching
For high level performance and safety in pitching, the pelvis [...]
Embracing Variability in Pitcher Training: The Key to Performance and Injury Prevention
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The Gang Leader: Self-Organization of Four Menacing Velo Robbers
In our analysis of the pitching motion, the “gang leader” is known as “The Back-Leg Attractor,” or the first move. If the first move goes awry, the body is forced to choose from one or all of four different compensatory moves to get back on track.
It’s Time For A Revolution in Throwing Rehab
The UCL, Labrum, and rotator cuff aren’t the most highly vascularized tissues, they do receive some blood flow, and therefore under the right conditions, they are capable of remodeling themselves to resist the stresses under which they are placed.
Building Ferraris, Not Pintos
By my estimate, about 85% of the calls we [...]
The Top 4 Ways Pitchers Become Disconnected
Throwing at a superior level is about being “connected”. When a delivery is connected all the body parts are acting in timing and synergy with one another. Every part is playing its proper role and performing in concert with all the other body parts…and those parts are operating around a stable spine.
Why It Doesn’t Take 10,000 Hours
When an athlete achieves the mobility necessary to maximize his length-tension advantages and then finds the synchronous co-contractions to fully optimize the contractile and elastic properties of his muscles, he accomplishes his goal and his body naturally wants to do that again. His natural instincts take over and he is compelled to move in the same manner again and again. When it clicks, it stays.
Jake Odorizzi: The Odo Solution
In 2019, Jake Odorizzi went from being a promising middle of the rotation arm to one of the best starting pitchers in baseball. Jake trained with us for more than 3 months and according to an interview he did on MLB Network, the he credits the work he did at The ARMory for his success.