Thank you for “Liking” and Subscribing to my Facebook fan-page! Coaches Just Don’t Teach Timing (or don’t know how) …In this Josh Hamilton video we’re focusing on what most coaches don’t tell you (or simply don’t know) about calibrating the timing of a hitter. You can have the best hitting mechanics, but if timing is off, […]
Does Ryan Braun Hit Backwards? In the fourth installment of the Coaches DON’T Tell You This: Common Mistakes Hitters Make video series, featuring Ryan Braun, we’re analyzing why “Sitting Back” is so destructive to friction-free mechanics. The WHY boils down to a strange word… According to IdeaFit.com, “Proprioception is the body’s ability to transmit a sense of position, analyze that […]
Troy Tulowitzki Stride Length Experiment Question: Does Stride Length Kill Bat Speed? Using the Zepp (Labs) Baseball app, I wanted to use the Scientific Method to analyze whether Troy Tulowitzki’s longer stride increases or decreases bat speed. Not just a longer stride, but I want to see the torso moving forward as well. Background Research […]
In This Andrew McCutchen Video (1 of 4), …We’re going to look at how ‘Cutch’ (5’10” 190 lbs*) used Science to beat Paul Goldschmidt (6’3″, 245 lbs*) for the 2013 NL MVP. McCutchen has to stay close to human movement science in order to compete with big guys like Goldschmidt. (*according to Baseball-Reference.com) In this […]