Can You Make Gains During The Season?
It was 9:00 AM last Tuesday, and I was on [...]
Find Your Dog
Everyone, and I mean everyone has a dog in ‘em. You wanna throw hard, you gotta find your dog. Over the past 3 summers we’ve worked with more than 450 players from all over the world in our Summer Training Program. If they stayed 4 weeks, the average guy gained over 4 mph on his fastball. For most of them, it wasn’t about adding anything. It was about using what we call SAVAGE Training to reveal the dog they already had inside them.
Anatomy Of Hip-To-Shoulder Separation
Unless you’ve been living in the baseball equivalent of a Himalayan monastery, you’ve heard pitching and hitting coaches avowing the importance of “hip-to-shoulder separation.” I’m not exactly sure when it began, but sometime in the last several years, someone coined the term, and it spread like wildfire. According to advocates of this tenet, pitchers and hitters should rotate the pelvis while the torso remains closed for as long as possible. The resultant diagonal stretch through the trunk allows the athlete to take advantage of the elastic properties of the abdominals, and chest muscles to store and then unload energy to be transferred from the lower half to the arm or bat.
The Anatomy of “Lead Leg Blocking.” It’s Corruptive And Has To Go!
The bottom line is this: Pitching is like picking up chicks. The first move is critical. You have to get the first move right, or you probably don’t have much of a chance.
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What Is a Growth Plate Injury?
Coaches at our baseball training camps know that, when you have a soft tissue injury (UCL, labrum, rotor cuff) that doesn’t result in catastrophic failure, it’s very important during the rehab process that you provide controlled stress to organize the healing tissue along the line of resistance.
Wait, wait, wait, we’re about to tell Tom Glavine’s son how to throw a change-up?
Original Article Washington Post - 9/9/21: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/09/09/peyton-glavine-nationals-prospect/ Peyton Glavine, son [...]
Fixing A Comet
When I was 13 years old, our family made a [...]
Late Life: How Chien-Ming Wang Made it Back To The MLB
Late Life. It’s the perfect title for a documentary by filmmaker, Frank Chen on rise, fall and resurgence of ex-Yankee Ace, Chien Ming Wang. It premier’s in LA on May 9th. I am honored to be a part of it.
Top 5 Reasons Pitchers Have Lousy “Mechanics”
Contrary to popular belief, overhand throwing is a natural movement. [...]
The Anatomy of “Lead Leg Blocking.” It’s Corruptive And Has To Go!
The bottom line is this: Pitching is like picking up chicks. The first move is critical. You have to get the first move right, or you probably don’t have much of a chance.