Sports Biomechanics Ph.D. from @followstevens. Basketball, baseball, biomechanics. Marlins Biomechanist
Joined July 2022
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My baseball paper looking at impulse generation for each leg in baseball pitching is now open access! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… @Biomec_Baseball @sportsbiomechj – at Manhattan, NY
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I'm seeing a lot of MLB orgs adding Biomech roles interpreting the data for coaches & players.
They also seem to be lower level roles.
For me this is backwards. Applying Biomech to the individual is the hardest bit, it requires the most knowledege and experience, not the least
Happy to talk about learnings from my dissertation work and beyond! Thanks for the opportunity
Why aren't #WNBA players dunking? 🏀
There have been no dunks in the WNBA regular season in 2025 ❌
@mazfaroo, @isaac_fanin and @SamLikesBiomech discuss on More Than The Score - plus hear from Seattle Storm player Dominique Malonga.
Listen 🎧👇
bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0m1yz2…
Hello everyone! Now that I am near graduation for my PhD, I am still looking for any sports biomechanics-related roles (with experience working with MLB and NBA data and obviously in academia). I would appreciate any referrals/sharing/comments! 😊
#phd #biomechanics
As the most enthusiastic #NBA #dunkscore fan and a researcher of jumping in sensible and sports-scientific settings, here’s what I have found by pulling the NBA dunk score analytics.
1: average jump height to land a successful dunk was 25’, similar to combine numbers 🧵
And in a not surprising turn of events, jumps off both feet are the most commonly used takeoff during games! Yet I keep running into walls when trying to publish two-foot jumping research.
Fortunately, one did make it through last year, and I looked at how each leg coordinated to regulate the body’s linear momentum during two-foot jumps for maximum height. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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🧵NEW: Our latest paper is a meta-analysis of sex differences in upper- and lower-limb strength in kids aged 5-17 years old (3,497 boys; 3,137 girls).
Before, during, and after puberty, boys are stronger than girls on average. The sex difference in muscle strength is ~10% in 5–10-year-olds and increases to ∼40% in 14–17-year-olds. Throughout development, the sex difference in strength tends to be more pronounced in upper- than lower-limb muscles.
Co-author: @MatheusdPinto
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LMAOOOOOOOOOOO
BREAKING: Diana Taurasi has announced she is retiring from basketball, she told TIME.
“I just didn’t have it in me,” Taurasi said. “That was pretty much when I knew it was time to walk away.”
time.com/7261375/diana-taura…
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Sometimes, I'll pull up a random game from 1990s just to check myself. Maybe teams did move more off the ball, run more complex actions!
Newsflash: they did not. Some different things, got to post ups. But some UGLY possessions.
(Jazz-Nuggets 1st Q O from Denver, 2/8/1994)
