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Until dads say enough is enough, the carnage and heartbreak will continue Dr Brent Pourciau writes: “↓ If your elbow hurts after you throw hard, read this. Your elbow is the last link in the chain.” If Brent is talking about the kinetic chain the forearm, wrist, hand and finger joints follow the elbow joint action in the kinetic chain for pitchers. The order of joint action can’t change. ——— “The forearm muscles that sit over your UCL help resist the valgus stress of every pitch, like a seatbelt for the ligament.” Valgus stress has nothing to do with rupturing the Ulnar Collateral Ligament. Not understanding muscle action is at the root cause of all these unnecessary pitching injuries. ASMI refuses to understand muscle action. It’s made them a lot of cents. Five powerful pitching muscles attach to the Medial Epicondyle on the inner (baby finger) side of the elbow. These muscle arise above and attach below the elbow. When these muscles contract mioanglosly they move the forearm tightly against the upper arm. If pitchers do this, the Ulnar Collateral Ligament received zero stress. Valgus stress Most everyone has heard Brent and every other surgeon-loving guru talk about Max External Rotation or Layback. When pitchers go into MER the muscles on the outside of their elbow are contracting. This means the muscles on the insides of the elbow, the five Medial Epicondyle muscles, can’t contract. So Brent et al are teaching pitchers how to rupture their Ulnar Collateral Ligament This is not an easy kinesiological concept to understand but it is inexcusable that guys with letters after their name refuse to acknowledge Reciprocal Inhibition . All parents have to do is ask them about this. What parents refuse to understand is their sons can be as strong as King Kong and if they go into Maximum External Rotation, there is no muscle action that protects the Ulnar Collateral Ligament. If you do it my way, you’ll throw with more velocity. I prefer velocity over injury.

Texas Dr Mike Marshall was right after all Now what about your sons?

Eric Cressey writes: “As an eternal optimist, this quote resonated with me” Perhaps Mr Cressey doesn’t watch the news but there may be an outside chance that dads might stop letting their sons be cash cows for baseball’s medical industrial complex. Enough might finally be enough Stay tuned.

Brent Pourciau PhD writes: 1️⃣ “LINEAR: drive your body down the mound” This is what the Japanese call ‘translation’. So, I assume the dads of #BBTrumpland have bought in. I won’t bother to ask in what direction the object of interest, the baseball, is heading when pitchers translate. 2️⃣ “ROTATIONAL: hips open first, shoulders wait, trunk fires” This is why pitchers can’t get their pitching foot very far from the rubber. Dads get a twofer: 1. less velocity 2. Injuries Gotta keep dad happy 3️⃣ “LINEAR: the front leg blocks and the arm whips through A careful reader will note Brent is justifying bringing the CoM to a screeching halt by telling the unwashed their arm will have a ‘whip’ effect. Back in the day, front foot block was likened to a speeding car hitting a wall. The image of a body whipping through the windshield was gruesome but effective. Then a book learned PhD came along and said the body actually slowed down once the car hit the wall.

Great congratulations to Bryant Ogando. Whether on a mound where pitchers pitch or flat ground 90 MPH is special. As my readers know, to maximize your release velocity, albeit safely, my foreign tool, Coach Isaac Newton, requires straight line force. When my readers see the elbow on the wrong side of the pitcher’s body they know the pitcher will transcribe an arc on his path to release. While this reduces potential velocity it does cause injuries. ASMI has to eat

The drills are supposed to teach the skills. The Japanese (Yamamoto) are starting to at least bastardize my heavy ball throws. Once the foreigners start embracing science and modernity Brent et al will be forced to dump ASMI and embrace velocity over injuries. A tough stretch ahead for the dads of #BBTrumpland …..starting tomorrow night. When pitchers start wrong….it ends bsdly

What gets measured gets managed. I agree with Dr Pourciau’s numbers. Without skill, the numbers won’t matter. But you have to check the boxes.

I can see why Ahmad loves Eric Cressey. This drill has nothing to do with pitching (or batting) And won’t help Cam Schlittler engage his Latissimus Dorsi.

Dr Brent Pourciau writes:ll “Manuel's front leg is where his velocity comes from. 🔥” While not addressing my claim that Brent’s pitchers do not accelerate the baseball with their legs, this is Brent’s answer to my charge The key word here from Brent is velocity. My readers will note I use the word Acceleration. I’m not saying Brent is mendacious. He simply missed a couple of classes at science school. Brent continued “That block is the brake. The lower body stops, and everything it built whips into the trunk and arm.” The key word here is ‘block’. Velocity is how fast an object moves in a specific direction, while acceleration is how fast that velocity changes over time. Coach Newton is interested in Accelerating the baseball until it gets to its final velocity release. F=MA. A is Acceleration. Dr Pourciau loves to talk about the kinetic chain. Acceration is the foundational principle behind the kinetic chain. Each joint sequentially conserves the velocity from the prior joint and adds (accelerates) to it. Brent’s use of the word block is apropos. We can easily see the Center of Mass stop moving forward at front foot block. In order to keep the baseball moving forward at some velocity Brent’s pitchers have to bend forward at the waist. If we tracked the rate of velocity change it will go down. Brent counters that the pitcher will whip the baseball forward. I use the term force -couple quite often with my Inner Circle instead of whip. Brent does not understand how force-coupling (whip) occurs in the baseball pitching motion. Force-coupling is oppositely directed forces on either side of a fulcrum. Dr Pourciau has to describe these oppositely directed forces and the fulcrum. When you block the COM from continuing forward through release, the Tate of the change in velocity (acceleration) goes down. But let’s be fanciful and say velocity goes up. Then Brent has to explain the destroyed lower backs for the 99% that don’t get paid. The Dowling in the study Brent cites is #BBTrumpland’s gift to the DEI crowd. I’ll let it go at that…for now. In a study of 322 pro pitchers, the hardest throwers straightened their front knee 17° from foot strike to release. The slower group: 5°. (Dowling et al., Sports Biomechanics, 2022)

As we head to the polls, let’s not forget Israel-first @BillAckman , the Brit @elonmusk and their flunkies across #BBTrumpland support the buffoon that refers to these Americans as “suckers and losers”.

The dads of #BBTrumpland used to be told to: Love freedom Love democracy Love decency Love education. Now the are told to Love Israel first @BillAckman Love the Brit @elonmusk Love Dear Lear Love Dear Leader’s boss Bibi Love the guy with the pictures… Putin But most of all love cash Cashtrumpsall in #BBTrumpland

Dr Brent Pourciau writes: “Velocity starts in the legs” I’ve got to believe there is a dad in #BBTrumpland that would love to shut me up. All he has to do is show me a pitcher who uses his legs to accelerate the baseball. Dads used to show me pitchers that use their legs to stand on the mound. That doesn’t count. So my unanswered challenge remains. The dads of #BBTrumpland hope Fransy Bosch will bail them out. Not gonna happen

Velocity. I know Specificity is a difficult concept to understand but if you want to throw a baseball with more velocity and spin next Spring, you have to Overload the muscles, bones, ligaments and tendons associated with pitching and pitch baseballs as hard as you can from pitching mounds this Fall and Winter.

Dr Brent Pourciau writes: “Pause your pitcher's video the moment the ball leaves his hand. Look at his chest.” Fair enough but I look at the front foot. If the front foot is ahead of the front knee, a clear violation of my foreign tool Isaac Newton’s 3rd Law, then the pitcher will have to bend forward at the waist. Done enough times, the intervertebral disks in his lower back wear away enough to start irritating the nerve roots that serve his Sciatic nerve. If dads want to see Skipster suffer, bending forward at the waist will do it. And yes, not moving the COM forward through release reduces release velocity. I prefer velocity over injuries. Pitchers must wait until after they rotate to lean. Pitchers must stand tall and forwardly rotate their entire pitching arm side of their body over their glove foot and down their Acromial line. Two PhDs…..one choice.

Because of the leverage position of the patellar tendon I oppose ATG squats. With baseball accepting Dr Mike Marshall’s advise to catch from one knee I don’t see the need for squatting with weight we used to make an argument for with baseball catchers. I am not opposed to ATG body squats. For most body weight squats should be able to give the vast majority of people the leg strength for everyday life. Wall squats are a good exercise, especially for those with high blood pressure. Weight lifters obviously can squat with weight but take a look at Ronnie Coleman. With that said, for the vast majority that don’t listen to science and modernity this is an excellent article on squatting with weight. If you lift weights it is critically important to do it correctly.

The dads of #BBTrumpland hate being called stupid. Hate it. But they let themselves be conned by Israel-first @BillAckman What are diesel prices these day. First, follow the facts. Saps

Brought to the USA by Israel-first @BillAckman, the Brit @elonmusk and their sycophants, the dads of #BBTrumpland

In this infomercial, like most doyens of #BBTrumpland. Eric Cressey, cites the obligatory foreign tools; in this case the Russians. Eric tells the hapless dads of #BBTrumpland that to get ready to train specifically we must train Skippy generally (GPP). But wait, the general exercises have to be specific. It was way too easy for the Rays and Brewers. Way too easy

We do NOT have a common flexor tendon. The 5 muscles that arise from the medial epicondyle on the inside of our elbow are 5 separate and distinct muscles. Only one of these muscles flexes the four fingers.

How daddy Murphy can look at this and still let his ‘son’ Jacob pitch like this astounds me. When pitchers start wrong….it ends badly Nice video