10 Pitching Mechanics That Could Blowout Your Arm

[@henrybonette5379]

You don't get enough credit, Brent. You are doing good things for the baseball community, keep it up. (BTW see you next summer)

[@brentpourciau]

Thanks Henry! Appreciate you. See you next summer!!!

[@rslwannabe9475]

@@brentpourciau So basically... Try and put little torque on your arm Dont play catchup with your arm and don't have your elbow above your shoulder on front foot landing?

[@danielevans5864]

Loved this. The genuine care Brent demonstrates regards preventing injuries is a testament to his virtue and trustworthiness.

[@brentpourciau]

Thanks Daniel! Means a lot!!

[@TheMenofMagic]

I love this information it can save anyone from the potential injury to the arm

[@mscoggin]

Brent. Why are there only 34k people following you? I love how you explain…I’m a biomechanist also. To throw hard you have to have good mechanics. To have these good mechanics you have to be stable. Stable is different from strong. I’m a believer. Peace.

[@brentpourciau]

🙏

[@AP530]

Awesome vid

[@jayden7194]

thanks for the great content

[@Dev518]

You're doing great work. As a little league baseball coach, I can second your complaints about conventional coaches. I get a lot of flack for trying to use your methods both with pitchers and position players. Most of our coaches tell kids to get over the top into the elbow above the shoulder position. Some even discourage kids from "side-arming" when many of these kids are really using relatively safe low three-quarter arm angles. They won't stop kids from using the "arm whip" to generate velocity, and they often encourage it because in the youth level it gets results. I'm "wrong" because I break down kids mechanics and try to teach them how to use their legs and get good hip-to-shoulder separation. I won't even get started on the old school hitting mentality that is pervasive. Hopefully, one day all of the new knowledge will trickle down to youth coaches and we can keep our kids healthy and make them more successful.

[@stevesullivan457]

Dev518 I appreciate your service but 1All pitchers should never place their pitching foot parallel to the rubber. 2. All pitchers should place both feet facing forward and step off the mound,not stride 3. All pitchers should take the bb out of their glove w palm under the ball. 4. All pitchers should pendulum swing the bb out of glove downward backward and upward to driveline height (I just eliminated 90% of TJS). When the glove foot lands the bb is at shoulder height as far back to 2nd wout locking elbow. This means elbow is at shoulder height while the bb is at driveline height (right above ear height. If you do this and NEVER release a bb over the top of your index finder you’ll never have TJS. If you take the bb out of the glove w palm on top of ball you start the journey to TJS.

[@brentpourciau]

Great to hear you are educating yourself to better help these young kids learn how to use the entire body and not just the arm. Keep up the good fight and never stop learning. Thanks for sharing. Oh and listen to Steve but ignore him at the same time. He teaches Dr Marshal who has a good understanding of the arm but a poor approach to protecting it mechanically.

[@stevesullivan457]

Dev518 TopVelocity.net lol. Dr Marshall has a PhD in Kinesiology and a Cy Young Award and still holds several MLB pitching records. I am pleased to hear he is getting a degree in Kinesiology. But I think he’s missed a few classes. You can only abduct the Humerus bone to parallel to the shoulder line. Once you go above parallel you use different muscles and it’s called Shoulder Girdle upward rotation. So hyper abduction is a nonsense term. I think MCW kids are intellectually capable of understanding real terms. But as I’ve said many times, Brent does his own research (it shows) unlike so many others that simply rip off Dr Marshall’s work without attribution. Id say he got 50% of what he said fairly correct which is pretty good. Btw I find it hard to believe Brent would approve “Side arming” He knows how Dr Marshall wants youngsters trained to pitch. We can have fun with this but please. I hope you misunderstood him. All pitches should be released as high as possible.

[@brentpourciau]

Good point about abduction ROM of the humerus. Hyperabduction defines those who attempt to push past that range which would make them more susceptible to shoulder impingements. If I didn't have respect for Dr. Marshal I wouldn't call him a Doctor or would acknowledge his excellent work in the elbow. The problem I have is with his attempt to remove external rotation and hip abduction from the pitching delivery. This will inhibit pitching performance.

[@stevesullivan457]

TopVelocity.net Impingement is another myth. Think of a biplane. If you raise the lower wing it will not impinge on the upper wing. But you are correct that you don’t want Humerus above shoulder height. You tear the Shoulder Labrum when you bring Humerus behind your Acromial line (hyper angulation?) which you called out (but had wrong injurious effect). This will rub the anterior Labrum against the head of the Humerus bone. Where the arm has been tells us where it’s going to end (Centripetal imperative) so if you start behind Acromial line your arm will finish across the body. This will rub the head of Humerus against the back of Labrum. Hence most Labrum tears are AP Anterior/Posterior. You want the head of Humerus to stay centered in its Glenoid Fossa. Mr LL only has to windup as I described and never let the pitching arm cross the mid line of the body at release Tell Mr Medlen I used to crucify the Braves almost daily via the AJC for how the Braves taught pitching. Alas only one dad reached out. And And And Medlen still has a bounce. SMH

[@justingomez2042]

How do you stop overloading at maximum external rotation?

[@prestonschumacher1314]

How accurate are these motion sensors? That hyperangulation example seemed a little extreme

[@ZeTugz]

about 99% when compared to a markered motion capture sensor

[@sebastianortiz8072]

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