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Video Analyses of Dr. Marshall's Baseball PitchersUnfortunately, to be able to put these videos on line, we had to severely compressed them, such that the clarity is not as good as on the DVDs I make. Nevertheless, visitors will still see clearly enough to determine how well each baseball pitcher performs my baseball pitching motion. To analyze baseball pitchers, we need to develop a system that checks for all flaws. 01. In the first video segment, I provided real-time rear view video of my baseball pitchers throwing my six basic pitches for adult baseball pitchers. a. Maxline True Screwball b. Maxline Fastball c. Maxline Fastball Sinker d. Maxline Pronation Curve e. Torque Fastball f. Torque Fastball Slider or Two-Seam Torque Pronation Curve. To succeed at the highest level of baseball, baseball pitchers need a wide variety of high-quality pitches. Therefore, the purpose of the first video segment is to evaluate the quality of the movement of these pitches. 02. In the second video segment, I slow the video down to one-quarter speed. To eliminate injuries to the front of the pitching shoulder, when their glove foot lands, baseball pitchers need to have their pitching arm ready to move toward home plate. Therefore, the purpose of the second video segment is to determine the position of the pitching arm when the glove foot lands. 03. In the third video segment, I provide real-time front view video of my baseball pitchers throwing my six basic pitches for adult baseball pitchers. Therefore, the purpose of the third video segment is to again evaluate the quality of the movement of these pitches, but from the batters perspective. 04. In the fourth video segment, I again show the video down to one-quarter speed. Home plate is seventeen inches wide. The pitching rubber is twenty-four inches wide. Therefore, three and one-half inches on either side of the pitching rubber is outside of home plate. When baseball pitchers release their pitches outside of home plate, they have to throw the baseball inward toward home plate. Therefore, the purpose of the fourth video segment is to determine the position of the pitching hand at release with reference to the pitching rubber. a. For my Maxline pitches, I want my baseball pitchers to release the baseball outside of the glove arm side of the pitching rubber. b. For my Torque pitches, I want my baseball pitchers to release the baseball outside of the pitching arm side of the pitching rubber. 05. In the fifth video segment, I show high-speed film of my pitchers from the front view. High-speed film from the front view shows from where my baseball pitchers start the acceleration phase of their pitching motion, how they accelerate their pitches through release and how they decelerate their pitching arm and body. To focus on the critical moments of the baseball pitching motion, I freeze framed the film at four different moments. a. 'End of the Pendulum Swing.' The 'End of the Pendulum Swing' is the moment immediately preceeding the acceleration phase of the baseball pitching motion. b. 'Maximum Pitching Forearm Acceleration Position.' Immediately after the end of their pendulum swing, baseball pitchers start accelerating their pitching upper arm toward home plate. To engage their Latissimus Dorsi muscle, my baseball pitchers should raisetheir pitching upper arm to vertically beside their head and turn the back of their pitching upper arm to face toward home plate. If my baseball pitchers have the back of their pitching upper arm toward home plate, then they are using their Latissimus Dorsi muscle to vertically drive their pitching arm forward. If my baseball pitchers have the inside of the pitching upper arm toward home plate, then they are using their Pectoralis Major muscle to horizontally pull their pitching arm forward. In the 'Maximum Pitching Forearm Acceleration Position,' my baseball pitchers have their pitching elbow slightly above the top of their head with their pitching forearm horizontally behind their pitching elbow pointing at home plate. Therefore, driveline height is slighly above the top of the head. From their 'Maximum Pitching Forearm Acceleration Position,' my baseball pitchers start to inwardly rotate their pitching upper arm, extend their pitching elbow, pronate their pitching forearm and flex their pitching wrist, hand and fingers. When my baseball pitchers drive their pitching forearm to 'Release,' their pitching elbow comes to a complete stop. This is the force-coupling action of my baseball pitching motion. Force-coupling occurs when athletes apply parallel and oppositely-directed forces on both sides of a fulcrum. With regard to baseball pitching, the fulcrum is the elbow joint and the Latissimus Dorsi muscle stops the pitching upper arm from moving farther forward and the Triceps Brachii muscle extends the pitching elbow and the Pronator Teres muscle pronates the pitching forearm forward. Like a booster rocket, these parallel and oppositely-directed forces increase the acceleration rate of the wrist, hand, fingers and baseball toward home plate. c. 'Release.' 'Release' shows the position of the pitching arm, the glove arm, the hips, the shoulders, the glove upper leg, their glove foot and the pitching upper leg. My baseball pitchers, release their pitches with their: 01. Pitching arm as high as possible. 02. Pitching hand in front of their head. 03. Glove arm behind their body. 04. Hips rotated beyond perpendicular. 05. Shoulders forty-five degrees in front of their hips. 06. Glove upper leg vertical. 07. Body pivoting over their glove foot. 08. Pitching upper leg vertical. d. 'Maximum Pronation.' At about 0.003 seconds after release (fifteen frames of film running at five hundred frames per second), the position of 'Maximum Pronation' occurs. The degree to which the palm of the pitching hand outwardly rotates determines the intensity of the pronation action. If the palm of the pitching hand outwardly rotates to face upward, then my baseball pitchers inwardly rotated their pitching upper arm and pronated their pitching forearm as powerfully as possible. 05. In the sixth video segment, I show high-speed film of my pitchers from the side view. High-speed film from the front view shows from where my baseball pitchers start the acceleration phase of their pitching motion, how they accelerate their pitches through release and how they decelerate their pitching arm and body. To focus on the critical moments of the baseball pitching motion, I freeze framed the film at four different moments. a. 'End of the Pendulum Swing.' The side view shows how my baseball pitchers move the baseball backward. Visitors should take care note of how far behind the pitching rubber that my baseball pitchers take their pitching hand, when my baseball pitchers walk forward off the pitching rubber and where their pitching hand is when their glove foot lands. When the glove foot lands, baseball pitchers immediately start to accelerate the baseball toward home plate. Therefore, when the glove foot lands determines the end of the pendulum swing. Visitors should note how far my baseball pitchers step with their glove foot and whether the heel of their glove foot contacts the ground first. b. 'Maximum Pitching Forearm Acceleration Position.' In the 'Maximum Pitching Forearm Acceleration Position,' my baseball pitchers have their pitching elbow slightly above the top of their head with their pitching forearm horizontally behind their pitching elbow pointing at home plate. Therefore, driveline height is slightly above the top of the head. From their 'Maximum Pitching Forearm Acceleration Position,' my baseball pitchers start to inwardly rotate their pitching upper arm, extend their pitching elbow, pronate their pitching forearm and flex their pitching wrist, hand and fingers. When my baseball pitchers drive their pitching forearm to 'Release,' their pitching elbow comes to a complete stop. This is the force-coupling action of my baseball pitching motion. Force-coupling occurs when athletes apply parallel and oppositely-directed forces on both sides of a fulcrum. With regard to baseball pitching, the fulcrum is the elbow joint and the Latissimus Dorsi muscle stops the pitching upper arm from moving farther forward and the Triceps Brachii muscle extends the pitching elbow and the Pronator Teres muscle pronates the pitching forearm forward. Like a booster rocket, these parallel and oppositely-directed forces increase the acceleration rate of the wrist, hand, fingers and baseball toward home plate. c. 'Release.' 'Release' shows the position of the pitching arm, the glove arm, the hips, the shoulders, the glove upper leg, their glove foot and the pitching upper leg. My baseball pitchers, release their pitches with their: 01. Pitching arm as high as possible. 02. Pitching hand in front of their head. 03. Glove arm behind their body. 04. Hips rotated beyond perpendicular. 05. Shoulders forty-five degrees in front of their hips. 06. Glove upper leg vertical. 07. Body pivoting over their glove foot. 08. Pitching upper leg vertical. d. 'Maximum Pronation.' At about 0.003 seconds after release (fifteen frames of film running at five hundred frames per second), the position of 'Maximum Pronation' occurs. The degree to which the palm of the pitching hand outwardly rotates determines the intensity of the pronation action. If the palm of the pitching hand outwardly rotates to face upward, then my baseball pitchers inwardly rotated their pitching upper arm and pronated their pitching forearm as powerfully as possible. When we methodically evaluate how my baseball pitchers perform my baseball pitching motion with each of the six baseball pitches in the manner that I describe above, then we can better understand what they need to do to become the best, injury-free, highly-skilled baseball pitcher that they can be. Because I take five hundred frames per second high-speed film and make these DVDs of my baseball pitchers, I know exactly how my baseball pitchers apply force to their pitches. And, I want everybody else to know as well. That is what Professor Heusner and I call, 'Coaching.' The failure of 'traditional' baseball pitching coaches to analyze high-speed film of their baseball pitchers is the reason why they continue to teach their baseball pitchers the injurious flaws that destroys their pitching arms and bodies. Without high-speed film, pitching coaches have no idea of how their baseball pitchers apply force to their pitches. |
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