I’m walking out of the movie theater on a cold, damp August evening in Sylvan Lake – a lively summer community located between Alberta’s two big markets of Edmonton and Calgary. The overcast sky and residue of an earlier rainstorm made it feel like much of my first month living
If there’s an inefficiency in the delivery, you can usually pin it back to some subset of bad rotation. Something either isn’t turning when it should (e.g. pushing), or it’s turning when it shouldn’t (e.g. spinning). Of all the style involved in a throw, rotation is the one thing that
I chose the word leverage for this section specifically because I believe it captures at its core what pitchers are trying to do between leg lift and foot plant. We’re not quite dealing with fulcrums and levers. Humans are omnidirectional movers; there is one “lever” that controls the throw. But
Inertia, by definition, is the tendency for an object to resist changes to its current state of motion. A body at rest will stay in rest. A body in motion will stay in motion, unless acted upon by an external force. When we throw a baseball, we don’t have an
It was my junior year of college when I had a profound experience that impacts my coaching style today. The year, up until then, had largely been a disappointment for myself. The winter prior, I experienced and had success using new training tools. Of those included weighted baseballs. I decided
Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez was in the midst of producing his 1996 horror film From Dusk Until Dawn. The plot for the movie takes shape by introducing two criminal brothers – George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino. Needing a way out of the country after robbing a Texas bank, they run into
How guys rotate is the most complicated, but most important part of the puzzle. Of all the style involved in the swing, rotation is the one thing that unites us all. It doesn’t have to look a certain way, but certain things do need to happen. Great hitters are great
If overcoming inertia is how a hitter moves sideways, creating leverage is where a hitter works from when both feet come back to the ground. Snapshots in time aren’t great ways to evaluate the totality of a movement. But the geometry of where guys work from at landing gives us
In the back room of a drab Moscow restaurant, Elon Musk had finally had enough. The year was 2002. Musk was in Russia looking at the price for what he thought was two Depnr rockets. The decommissioned missiles were the start of what he hoped would become a world changing
You’re about to meet a hitter for the first time. You know nothing about him other than his name. You have a handful of tools. You have one hour. You want to create a positive experience for them, knowing this might be the only time you ever have the chance