Fowl Play: Lessons From a Frustrated Coyote
When I was a kid, if my brothers and I weren’t playing in football, basketball, or baseball games coached by my dad, Saturday mornings meant one thing… CARTOONS!!
Beyond question, my all-time favorite was The Roadrunner! I can still sing every word to the theme song. Obviously, the Roadrunner was the star of the show, but I’ve always pulled for the underdog, so I always hoped that sad Wyle E. Coyote would catch that blazing bird just once.
But he never did.
It wasn’t due to...
Is Your Collegiate Summer League a Waste of Time?
Earlier today I got a calls from 3 pitchers from a Top 20 Division 1 baseball program. In Lieu of summer ball these guys, upon the advice of their pitching coach, have decided to attend our Summer Rocketeer Training Program.
These guys and their coach really get it!
I know I'll catch a lot of flack for this, but here it is...
Collegiate Summer League games for pitchers are often a waste of time.
Yep...
There it is.
It's really the same trap that younger travel ball...
Feed the Mistake!
I attended a Functional Movement Screen (FMS) Certification class yesterday.
I've been using the Functional Movement Screen as a part of my pitcher evaluations for about 3 years now, and I had studied it thoroughly via books and DVDs, but I had never been to a class.
We recently decided to start using the FMS in our physical therapy clinic as a template for rehab and for a new campaign we have planned called “Feel Better, Move Better. Before we launch the campaign, I'll need to train...
Weight Loss and Pitchers?
Last week I was working with a patient--I'll call her Kimberly.
She was a 54 year old, woman recovering from a total knee replacement. I have worked with her 8 times over the past 3 weeks. She owns a successful real estate agency that employs over 20 people, and every time I saw her she was well dressed and made up, even though she was only 3 weeks past her surgery and hadn't returned to work yet. She projected a sharp, professional image, but she was moderately overweight.--not obese by any...
Chicks Dig Fastballs. It’s All About The TA!
Last month, The ARMory hosted a live webinar called Arm Care Summit: Decel is Ground Zero.
Some of the nation's leading pitching instructors gathered on the web to discuss the importance of safe and efficient deceleration for arm health and performance.
Everyone on the panel agreed that proper deceleration is a vital part of the pitching delivery.
But there are some out there who scoff at the idea and maintain that proper deceleration is "natural" and need not be taught. These...
What If OJ Didn’t Do It?
Avoiding Observational Bias
During the first three quarters of 1995, our nation was riveted, and unfortunately divided, by murder the trial of football legend OJ Simpson.
I was working as a home care Physical Therapist.
I spent my days and often worked deep into the night visiting patients in their homes, helping them recover from injury or illness.
During the trial, everyone had their TV on and it was always tuned to one thing... the trial of the century.
I did my job with one...
The Top 10 Reasons (You Might Not Have Considered) For All These Elbow Injuries
The following message is intended to be rich with tongue and cheek satire, but I promise you I will take some flack for it. Mark my words, some shallow minded half wit will cherry pick excerpts and quote me as if were serious. Anyone who knows me understands that while I am deeply compassionate and caring, I am rarely serious.
So here goes.
With debate on the rash of UCL injuries raging, and "experts" crawling out of every nook and cranny with what they claim to be undeniable...
DJ Missile!!!!
Said goodbye to a new friend yesterday. Allow me to introduce you to DJ Mitchell.
He has been training at The ARMory for the last 4 weeks.....every day....at 7:00 am....
DJ is a 26 year old professional baseball player.
A right handed pitcher who played in the big leagues for the New York Yankees, he was named the Yankees 2011 minor league pitcher of the year and made his major league debut in June of 2012.
In July of that same year, he was traded for this guy.
Through a...
Myelination Nation–More on How Pitchers Learn
In the winter of 1988 I was a Lieutenant in the United States Air Force,
assigned to Francis E Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Here’s the number one thing I remember about Wyoming:
IT WAS COLD!
Very cold.
In fact I’m pretty sure there was snow on the ground 8 months out of the year
--paradise for a guy with and incurable baseball addiction.
In December, my little brother, Tim, came to visit.
He was 17, strong, athletic (all state soccer goalie,
national champion knee...
Tyler Danish, Perfect Game 2013 Top Rated RHP
This is Tyler Danish,another member of our 90 mph hall of fame.
6'1" 190 lbs
University of Florida commit
Durant High School, Plant City, FL
Chet Lemon's Juice
Perfect Game's #1 nationally ranked 2013 right handed pitcher
90-94 mph from a side arm slot with HEAVY sink. Tops out at 95 mph.
My middle son, Ryan's best friend.
SORRY THIS ONE IS SPECIAL...IT MIGHT GET A LITTLE LONG.
According to the old adage, "Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard."
But what if talent does...
