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
First Principle #1: Overcoming Inertia Inertia, by definition, is the tendency for an object to resist changes to its current state pf 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
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
It was about a year ago I read something that stopped me in my tracks. I read it in Tom Verducci’s book The Cubs Way – a behind the scenes look at how the 2016 Chicago Cubs finally won it all, breaking their infamous 108-year World Series drought. Theo Epstein
A little over four years ago, I sat in front of my computer and typed out my final piece for the Medaille Perspective Newspaper: “A Letter From the Editor – Thanks Medaille.” While much of my time with the newspaper was spent capturing the stories of our student athletes, faculty,
On a cool fall night in Lubbock, TX, Mike Leach’s Texas Tech Red Raiders football team had eight seconds to pull off the unthinkable. The year was 2008. On the opposing sideline stood Mack Brown – head coach of the number one ranked Texas Longhorns. Three seasons ago, Brown hoisted
Last winter, I was introduced to a young college hitter. Born and raised in Hawaii, he was in his freshman season at a small junior college just outside Riverside, CA – the same school one of our longtime players was at. They became close throughout the fall. One day he
Below is a question I received from a good friend that turned into a glimpse of how I believe skills should be acquired, blended, and tested so they can show up when the lights turn on. This process (and piece) is not a finished product, but I think it is
The fourth quarter of the 1991 NBA Finals was about to begin. Magic Johnson’s Los Angeles Lakers and Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls were deadlocked at 80 in a decisive game five. Jordan, over the first seven years of his career, had established himself as one of the most dynamic scorers