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  • What's up guys Coach Madden yougoprobaseball.com here with Brent

  • Pourciau Top Velocity we're in his house right now and in fact I made a video a

  • while ago called the nine pitching velocity killers and then Brent came

  • like a little bit later maybe what how many was it ten maybe was yeah I'm only

  • going on one out of you man so he made ten pitching velocity killers

  • both great videos yeah but then you were like I'm coming back at you yeah I said

  • I'm doing 11 velocity killers you jerk but this video right here we're gonna

  • talk about pitching velocity leaks where guys are leaking their velocity and

  • we're gonna make this a little bit fun we're gonna have a competition I'm gonna

  • give you one leak he's gonna give you a one leak we haven't talked about this we

  • don't even know what we're gonna talk about we're just kind of Seuss please

  • stop yelling right now but in all seriousness this is gonna be some good

  • stuff because at the end of the day if you're if you're creating energy and

  • then losing it you're not getting as much as you can out of your kinetic

  • chain and that's what we're trying to do as pitchers we're trying to create

  • energy from the ground transfer through our kinetic chain and get it out through

  • the ball and remember this could go into mindset this could go into what you ate

  • I mean we could be here for a long time so do we want to stick with mechanics on

  • that what you want

  • all right Brent's gonna win this let me start with the first pitching velocity

  • leak and the first thing that I see and the probably the biggest one that I see

  • is the front leg you might in my opinion I see so many guys when they land

  • they're leaking out forward this way or out this way they're getting too much

  • rotational energy in there and they're kind of leaking out that way so that's

  • the biggest thing that I see as far as the leak goes for me when I see that I

  • like to work on and I want you to elaborate on this before you get into

  • your league too but what I see with that is it's either a lack of obviously how

  • we're using our rotational and linear energy one could be a strength issue not

  • strong enough to brace up or mobility issues so those are the three things

  • yeah can you elaborate on that no I mean I think you nailed it I think

  • it's I mean one thing I would probably say even more than strength issue it's a

  • power issue because it's strength just says you can you can hold a force it

  • doesn't see how quickly you can hold a force and we know in the front foot

  • lands you got point one point two seconds and you can't have any

  • any movement because studies show high velocity pitchers don't have any lead

  • any movement so you got to catch it immediately and that's power so now

  • there's a time to when you create your force and that that's what power means

  • means or what they call rate of force development how quickly do you turn that

  • force on and you see a lot of guys who are when they get in here and they brace

  • up that knee comes back it tracks back and they go this way but you don't have

  • to be straight do you know at the end of the day it's just it's it's just getting

  • energy of the ball and of course you got to create it and that has to do with you

  • creating it and it has a high correlation of velocity the more you can

  • extend it but it just it's how hard you want throw yeah I mean you have to say

  • if I did get more extension before release I would have thrown harder

  • because that's what the studies show okay what do you got number two oh I'm

  • gonna go back leg so you know we get this a lot when guys come to the leg

  • lifts and they start moving they collapse that leg right they collapse so

  • like why is that a problem collapsing the leg is because the legs stay strong

  • in external tation think about when you squat we squat here nobody squats like

  • that right so let your wattage in CrossFit fails on anything so that if we

  • go here then we anti rotate we lose stability I'm not stable here and then

  • we just we collapse and then we try to overcompensate so that's a big one

  • collapsing back leg is huge okay now let me ask you this and you can elaborate on

  • this I would I talked about as far as back leg goes I think differs a little

  • bit from what how you speak about it for me I call it the angled corkscrew so I

  • actually do want to be inside of my back foot slightly and I think that you have

  • to have good hip mobility to do this to create that I don't want to collapse it

  • I want to create that angle and then kind of corkscrew out spurt the foot

  • towards you yeah so what I was just saying is you're right I don't

  • you'd be in 20 rotated it is better to be externally rotated but yeah you can

  • keep it inside your knee you just need to be exercising rotate so that is a

  • good point awesome awesome this so this would be

  • number three right pitching velocity leak number three what I see is guys who

  • lose their energy with their upper body so they leak out energy this way they

  • don't block off okay and I'm interested to hear your thoughts on this because I

  • don't think I've ever seen a video where you talk about this I'm sure there is

  • one I just haven't seen it what I what I like to teach my guys is when they

  • separate to be 45 degrees closed off for more this way with their arms but then

  • when they unwind they want to block that energy off so they can get finished more

  • linear this way if you've got a guy who just spins out and flies out the way I

  • like to think about that is all your energy is going this way it's almost

  • like you're running if you were running with a flag if I'm running this way with

  • a flag the flag is gonna be going that way if I'm pulling all my energy out

  • this way all my energy is gonna go this way my arms gonna fly out and I'm gonna

  • be leaking my energy that way that's a great one glove side is a key one

  • studies show that low velocity pitchers have more left to right movement with

  • their glove sides high velocity pitchers are more they just turn it over

  • typically and and then it the energy is really coming from somewhere else so

  • you're right if you're using this to create injury in their energy it's

  • usually rotational energy and it's flying it off and taking your energy

  • somewhere else that's a huge one really good one you're up no more so here we go

  • I'm gonna talk about that the posture let's talk about posture and head in the

  • head position right so if either way if my head gets too far this way my head

  • gets too far that way if my head gets too far this way if I head gets too far

  • that way it kind of goes along with what John's talking about leaking or pulling

  • across your body this is your posture this is the balance of where you are so

  • I have to really keep this over my mike my trunk over my hips and like like the

  • whip all moving balanced towards the target and once I let this head go here

  • where do you think my Energy's going you know that election that's why you see

  • sidearm pitchers they start moving like a regular pitcher and then their head

  • starts doing that and that's where we go i'm--you're where if I start leaning

  • this way then you know that I'm flying off this way or if I want to start early

  • and then everything transfers early so to me the head the posture is huge to

  • prevent a big loss energy and in all directions I always say the best place

  • it needs to be is just behind your front hip so just behind it not all the way

  • back here because that could slow me down right or not in front of it not

  • over my my belt buckle not over my but just int balance just

  • behind my front hip and then it's all about riding all that energy towards the

  • target at the end of the day we're athletes we should be athletes we need

  • to be athletes and you got to be able to use your body the right way and that's a

  • great one I like that number five I'm glad you're

  • keeping up with the numbers here we're gonna track the number five what I got

  • for you is let's talk about the separation from the lower body and upper

  • body I see a lot of guys when they start pitching and maybe this is not so much

  • of a leak but just not getting as much as they could have right yeah so when

  • they when they're driving out their shoulders are moving with their hips and

  • I see this a lot with especially younger guys high school age guys even some

  • college guys you'll see that too obviously they're not throwing as fast

  • because they're not getting the separation that they need hip to

  • shoulder separation you want to have more separation between your lower body

  • and your upper body and like I said before I like to tell my guys to

  • separate at 45 degrees or more closed off so now you've got this upper body

  • already closed off as you start moving down the mound and once you get used to

  • that timing of separating the lower body to the upper body you're gonna be able

  • to create more energy or get more out of the energy that you're creating to put

  • it through the baseball so that's number five you got anything to add to that no

  • I think you know that sounds pretty good you got number 66 right now here we go

  • so we should get into the arm path I think the arm path is gonna be key too

  • so just like we want to separate just like we want to pull hips and shoulders

  • apart we've got to be careful with this and we get into the arm path if we

  • overdo it we exaggerate the tips I'm giving you it could throw off the timing

  • and really hurt your arm so you got to be careful when you start playing with

  • the arm path stuff but just like wanting to separate the hips and shoulders we

  • have to take the elbow and we have to load the SCAP or pull it back and get it

  • you know is me not trying to overdo it but get it nice and tight and pull it

  • behind the shoulder because just like pull in the hip and shoulder apart gives

  • you more time to create energy pulling the elbow away from the shoulder gives

  • you even a little bit more time to load the arm and carry that energy forward so

  • and there's a study that also showed that they compared Korean pitchers to

  • like I think American pitchers and one of the key things that Korean

  • pitchers then they through slower than American pitchers on average in the

  • study the one key things that they weren't doing as well as they weren't

  • it's called horizontal abduction pulling the elbow behind the backs cap loading

  • there so like I said be careful with doing that because it can go it can go

  • bad if you go too far and get too aggressive with it but it is a key point

  • so if you're if you're cocking the ball here and then you start cocking it here

  • you know it's a leak you're losing energy cocking it out here than if you

  • were cocking it a little bit more behind your scalp and you'd get more separation

  • as well right it will add even even if you're here and you've got good

  • separation with your shoulders you'd be better if you were more Scout loaded

  • SCAP loaded yeah cool another one seven seven who knows seven no I did six okay

  • so for this one I'm gonna talk about flicking the wrist here all the time

  • you gotta flick that wrist to get the backspin and get maximum velocity right

  • I disagree and I don't know where you stand on this but if you're coming

  • through and you're trying to stay straight behind that ball and flick like

  • this you're gonna be losing a lot you're gonna be leaking a lot you're not gonna

  • be getting as much as you could how I see the wrist working is we're going

  • from supinating which is kind of this position with the wrist to as I get to a

  • release point I'm turning it over and pronating it

  • through a release point so that's kind of the flick of the wrist if you will or

  • how I think you should work or how I used to feel it working was coming

  • through it and getting extension not only with the wrist but the shoulders as

  • well so getting the extension with the front shoulder and then coming through

  • it so my extension with the wrist coming over and and pronating is how the wrist

  • should really work in my opinion what you think about that guy yeah I think as

  • I add to it is like everything's action reaction so the action is what's

  • happening when you're turning your shoulders and your cocking your arm it

  • actually throws force in what's called supination which is the thumb going back

  • so you're actually trying to resist that force right so you cock the arm and you

  • turn and this wants to swivel against that movement and you resist it so what

  • is the the action of resisting a supinated forced pronation so that's why

  • you gotta be careful like trying to point the ball to second base you got to

  • be careful like if you're doing this long arm

  • you might be preventing that good supinated resistance which fires all

  • that good pronation that john is talking about

  • so think action-reaction what's the action the action is to resist

  • supination to then turn and also to to resist external rotation because that's

  • what you're trying to do you don't want your arm to keep spinning around and

  • that's going to create the reaction of internal rotation pronation right so

  • just be careful when you're playing with your arm that you're not not allowing it

  • to do that to create that nice efficient release of the arm movement but because

  • that was gonna affect velocity and it'll really start to mess with injury you

  • like it it could start causing inflammation so where should they be so

  • if their guide and they heard their pitching coach always saying point it

  • back to the second base where actually should they start where's that personal

  • preference or so it works best this way if you're an early arm cocker which is

  • all based on when your front foot lands if your front foot lands and you're

  • already up you're an early arm cocker if your front foot lands and you're still

  • coming up you're in a late arm cocker so if you're an early arm cocker you want

  • to be more pronated because then that helps with the scalp loading because see

  • if I'm supinated now I'm externally rotated so I want to pronate to help

  • with the scalp loading if I'm an early arm cocker because I wouldn't want to do

  • this and then land and I'm already open if I'm a late arm cocker I don't want to

  • be more pronated because them arms gonna drag so I can be more supinated if I'm a

  • late arm cocker because my arms late to get up and it's going to apply the force

  • later back on the arm so you can be more supinated you just gave me another one

  • so I'm good for at least one more round okay I think we could nitpick and keep

  • going so I think we're on eight I don't know why I'm remember the numbers but

  • hip extension right so you know guys we won up just like you're talking about 45

  • degree with the trunk well make sure it's in the hip the hip needs to counter

  • we need a counter into this hip to flex to allow for extension and also delay

  • rotation it does two things it delays rotation and gives us more flexion to

  • create extension so if I'm this guy just lifting and I'm already showing my back

  • hip like right out of the gate I'm losing all that energy that I could get

  • in delaying rotation because then we'd have to create faster rotation lay

  • and I'm getting more flexion so now I can power through the glute the

  • hamstring the lower leg more extension and we know that's ground force if I'm

  • separating that's more energy up the chain that's a great one that's great

  • and you see that a lot a lot too with with young pitchers how do you use the

  • king of the hill to work on that so the king of the hill is a coaching aid to

  • tell you how well you're creating force and when you're creating force so if you

  • don't know the king of the hill it's two sliding plates that the only way we can

  • make it bang is if we push hard enough against the plunger in a direction back

  • towards second base so if it bangs it means we got linear meaning we got the

  • force vector which is the ankle to knee down and we pushed back towards second

  • base and ultimately we want to hear that bang just as we're landing if I hear it

  • after landing it was too late I drove too late we have to hear it just before

  • we land that popped that bang off the king of the hill and it gives us that

  • good feedback that we pushed hard enough because you can crank it to make it

  • harder and we pushed at the right time at the right angle and you sell the king

  • of the hill on your website and so do you I sure do and I'd like to take this

  • opportunity to let you know that I have a two-year-old he's gonna be going to

  • college one day here soon I like to close and I like to feed him as well so

  • you guys make the decision I got an eight year old and a five got cut and

  • they're girls haha

  • what uh what number are we on nine all right number nine nine pitching velocity

  • leak I'm gonna talk about the guys who when they when they come down the

  • mountain and they're getting high with the shoulder it's almost like they're

  • their star fishing as they get down and the shoulder is higher than you know

  • they're Cup they're coming out of that SCAP load position and they're getting

  • too high see a lot of guys doing that and I think it might be a missed

  • coaching cue because you hear all the time get your arm up get your arm up get

  • your arm up and I see that and it just look they look jammed up and it's not

  • smooth it's not fluid and those guys typically don't throw very hard and if

  • they do they're putting themself at at risk to get injured so that's a big one

  • as far as leaking velocity or an order just putting yourself in a bad position

  • and jamming yourself up and not be able to being able to create as much as you

  • possibly could got anything on that well I think the same thing on you're gonna

  • mess with that action reaction to really coil in the arm you're fighting against

  • allowing it to naturally do that that's where you got to be careful but that's

  • thing that's a great one perfect number ten ten huh you're gonna

  • you're gonna kick yourself that you didn't think of this one alright front

  • foot strike where do we land do we land close good one we land open right okay

  • here's the thing and this can get crazy if you're if you're a big rotator I

  • would suggest you not be in but if you're a big polar and rotator you're

  • gonna do better landing more clothes because it's gonna give you more to

  • range or more angular distance to cover to create speed so if you're a puller

  • and you land here you don't have much time you're gonna be like right so and

  • I'm not promoting you being a nova rotator but just know if you're leaking

  • velocity if you're landing too much to the open side if you're a driver you

  • could probably land more to the open side but still the studies show if you

  • take your back foot and you drill a line to the target from the middle of your

  • foot to the target you want to land about six seven inches inside that and

  • because we drive in the front foot you're technically going to be toe to

  • heel and you want to be 20 degrees closed why is that because because what

  • you're doing is you're landing that slightly across your body is because

  • your your femurs connect and they actually kind of like dogleg into your

  • hip sockets and they they're out here so we have to actually bring the foot

  • across our hip so one more hips open they stabilize towards the target if I

  • land it if I went just straight and line and then tighten my hips up now I'm

  • shooting off to the on-deck circle so landing you know that seven inches

  • across 20 degrees as I Drive through well my hips open up now I'm locked down

  • to the target and everything can accelerate towards the target so you're

  • leaking if you're going open I mean at the end of the day the more open you go

  • the more velocity or losing that's a good one

  • I am kicking my heart this is my last one this is all I got right here

  • so if you got another one you know I'm conceding victory okay so think of your

  • last one here my last one is the some guys call it the pulldown or that for me

  • I think of pitching as the linear energy then the rotational energy and then that

  • last linear piece and then blending it all together but I see a lot of guys

  • they either don't get that last pulldown at the end or they're kind of already

  • into it as they get into their front leg so that's a huge one you're losing it if

  • you're already into it obviously you don't have it and then guys who are

  • finishing way too tall they just they're not getting as much out as they could if

  • they can get that get onto that angle that we were talking about earlier so

  • that's that's my number 11 you got anything to add to that one man I think

  • I'm the one I'm thinking about might be exactly what you were talking about in

  • the beginning to get the front leg more extended that was the other one I

  • thought about but I mean I could say this tell me you might go along with

  • what you're talking about because what you're talking about is getting the

  • trunk more forward right because that is a big piece but the studies show it's

  • not just about getting the trunk more forward which it is but there's more

  • it's getting them they are more laid back so that's gonna be my last piece

  • watch this go for it so why do they why do we lay back the arm right why does

  • the arm lay back a lot of people say it's to create that plyometric effect

  • right it's like cranking on the the catapult yank it back and all that

  • muscular fires it well that has something to do with it but more

  • importantly and I guess it kind of goes into you what you were talking about

  • when we let the arm lay back at the right time typically right when the

  • trunk squares up not any later where it gets out here if the elbow gets in front

  • of the trunk it's too late if we get the arm laid back right when the trunk

  • squares up now it's gonna give us all this time to push the trunk forward

  • before release so the arm laying back is actually a mechanism to allow the trunk

  • to go farther forward to put more energy in the ball and that's like the whip as

  • I Drive the handle of the whip forward that's going to carry more of the body

  • the whip which is where most of the energy is that's going to go up to the

  • end of the whip so that's what we're doing with the arm so if I get the arm

  • to lay back just when the trunk squares up now I can carry the the trunk more to

  • the target before the arm in 20 rotates potentially getting more

  • energy into the ball which is a huge velocity leak because you see a lot of

  • kids just wanting to stop their trunks or the arms are late and it kills all

  • that velocity that they can get up the chain it's great great points that's all

  • I got for you so I concede victory to you

  • congratulations now we're gonna happen again though you

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  • for watching good job because they'll come up and

  • they start moving down the mound and this back leg is kind of really straight

  • let me ask you something if you were going to try to jump as high as you can

  • would you jump with a slight bend in your leg or would you really get down

  • there and explode up you don't want to get down or get into your legs and

  • explode up Bend those legs

What's up guys Coach Madden yougoprobaseball.com here with Brent

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