I completely agree with 2 of my favorite pitchers. The conversations I have had with the pitchers at many levels all lead into needing to up the velocity and arm angles. Having pressure from coaches or worried that since their velocity dropped a little for a few games they were going to hurt their draft stock or contracts. Throw in places that these players pay a lot of money to go to that use video capture and tracking systems that decide to alter biomechanics and arm positions/angles without any form of evaluation of players shoulder/elbow/or anything for that matter and just prescribe weighted ball progressions or coaches having access to this tech and doing the same thing mid-season and then a few games later a UCL tear occurs. I feel it is like many other sports where bigger, faster, explosive are all valued high and the back-end training, maintenance and care of the athletes at all levels isn't where it should be. Hopefully with big names speaking out there can spark some change or at least conversations and acoountability being taken.
I think it stems from a combination of 2 things: a lack of being at point B and a lack of special work capacity. For a while, the thought has been that players threw too much, and we overcorrected. Now, guys need to throw more baseballs at various distances and intensities. More and more players only throw at max intent. Which means that they can only produce their skill at maximum intensity. This inability to operate at a variety of ranges inhibits the ability to create a level of special work capacity. This could be where your previous discussion on Prilepin's chart fits in with preparing pitchers. Pitchers need to spend more time working 70-85 percent of their skill, where they can build the volume of their skill. This would also allow more resources to get the player to point B.
Is this inability to operate at different intensities caused internally by the failure to operate in different fascial gearing positions?
Also, I mean baseball, not plyo balls or weighted balls. Those are different means that are being applied poorly, mainly causing pitchers to start throwing unwanted cutters, in my experience.
I completely agree with 2 of my favorite pitchers. The conversations I have had with the pitchers at many levels all lead into needing to up the velocity and arm angles. Having pressure from coaches or worried that since their velocity dropped a little for a few games they were going to hurt their draft stock or contracts. Throw in places that these players pay a lot of money to go to that use video capture and tracking systems that decide to alter biomechanics and arm positions/angles without any form of evaluation of players shoulder/elbow/or anything for that matter and just prescribe weighted ball progressions or coaches having access to this tech and doing the same thing mid-season and then a few games later a UCL tear occurs. I feel it is like many other sports where bigger, faster, explosive are all valued high and the back-end training, maintenance and care of the athletes at all levels isn't where it should be. Hopefully with big names speaking out there can spark some change or at least conversations and acoountability being taken.
I think it stems from a combination of 2 things: a lack of being at point B and a lack of special work capacity. For a while, the thought has been that players threw too much, and we overcorrected. Now, guys need to throw more baseballs at various distances and intensities. More and more players only throw at max intent. Which means that they can only produce their skill at maximum intensity. This inability to operate at a variety of ranges inhibits the ability to create a level of special work capacity. This could be where your previous discussion on Prilepin's chart fits in with preparing pitchers. Pitchers need to spend more time working 70-85 percent of their skill, where they can build the volume of their skill. This would also allow more resources to get the player to point B.
Is this inability to operate at different intensities caused internally by the failure to operate in different fascial gearing positions?
Also, I mean baseball, not plyo balls or weighted balls. Those are different means that are being applied poorly, mainly causing pitchers to start throwing unwanted cutters, in my experience.