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Training forearm flexor strength without RFD is like installing stronger brakes on a race car but delaying when they engage. It’s not about producing force eventually. It’s about reducing load on the UCL quickly. If the flexors can’t fire fast, the UCL takes on more stress

@ClintHurdle13 March has been one of the most difficult months I’ve had in a long time. Thanks for the reminder that this is normal. This is the painful process of growth. Stay persistent. Stay resilient.

I've had a lifetime of ups, downs, and sideways. Baseball. Failure. Faith. Rock bottom. Redemption. And the one lesson that ties all of it together? You don't become better by avoiding hard. You become better by embracing it... I'm a broken, flawed man and I've made mistakes I'm not proud of. I've let people down...not by choice, but I let them down. But how I reacted to those moments? That's where the growth lived. Here's what a lifetime of hard actually taught me. Lesson #1: Life is going to be hard. That's not a warning, that's a promise. People are going to be messy. You're going to make mistakes. The speed of life doesn't slow down for any of us. What you control: • Whether you embrace hard or run from it • Whether you get better or just get bitter • What your first thought is when your feet hit the floor in the morning There's so much more value in pushing through hard times and coming out the other side. Lesson #2: You can't outrun what you're supposed to grow through. I numbed failure instead of walking through it. I told myself it was working. It wasn't. Eventually, the hard you've been running from catches up. And when it does you either let it break you or let it build you. I've walked through all the challenges, all the ups, all the downs, all the sideways. And I think every single one of them put me in a position I was handpicked for. Hard doesn't disqualify you. It prepares you for what's next. Lesson #3: Be Steadfast. Be Persistent. Be Resilient. Those aren't traits you're born with. They're what's left after hard things do their work on you. They didn't come from the easy stretches They came from character that wasn't there before Empathy I couldn't have had without the hard Today is the only one we're promised. Don't waste it running from hard. Embrace it.

@devenmorgan @DrivelineYouth This is the stuff. To have a relationship with your son where you can help him figure it all out is gold. That takes a special kind of relationship between a father and son. Cherish those times!!

My son and I went to the gym late last night to work out some stuff after 3 HS games worth of not hitting the way that he wanted. The session had both a data component and a feel / cue component. As a 17 year old who now has high 60's / low to mid 70's bat speed he has struggled in the last week - specifically against low velocity pitching - to let the ball travel deep enough to get good flush contact. Point being that we had a specific thing to work on. So on the technology side we're using Blast to bat speed, attack angle and VBA, and we're using HitTrax to monitor contact depth in addition to the outcome stuff - exit velocity, launch angle, distance and direction. We also were using two different pitching machines - one offset to the left side, the other offset to the right side. In terms of cues what we ended up with was: - As deep as possible while still being on time - High pitch posture, flat bat path and adjust off if needed But along the way we tried all sorts of stuff - everything from trying to hit a ball to the hot dog cart in oppo foul territory off the left hand off-set machine to trying to find middle of the field ball flight from the right hand offset machine to just going pure let it eat anywhere ball flight off of either machine to score a runner on 2B. In my mind, the best instruction environment for hitting is just a conversation that revolves around: - What were we trying to do vs what did we actually do - What signal can we get about why we did what we did - What adjustments do we need to make to bring our results closer to the intended outcome on the next swing But if the instructor and the player don't even speak the same language...man that conversation is going to be pretty limited in its effectiveness. Because he's 17 we're now able to have these kinds of conversations - with all of these various layers. But the critically important part of the whole thing is that this is an actual two way conversation. Meaning that he's telling me how he feels, we're looking at the data to correlate the feeling to the outcome, we decide on how or if we need to adjust intention for the next swing and we just wash, rinse and repeat that same cycle over and over and over. I wouldn't - and I didn't - coach him this way when he was 12. We used the same tech stack, but the data we paid attention to was a lot more limited. Because that was the level of depth he was able to have a productive conversation about at that time. I'm also exceptionally fortunate that at 17 years old he's still playing and I still get to have these conversations with him.

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If interested, here's a link to a case study involving a pro pitcher who has experienced multiple setbacks following Tommy John surgery...mailchi.mp/flexprogrip/ca…

@JustinM0282 @BaseballDudes48 This was something that was proposed before we started the current season but never came to life. I’m sure it could be a reality with enough support. @2Dsportsbsb @2DsportsbsbLA

@JustinM0282 @BaseballDudes48 Just think if somehow, someway someone could make a “travel ball” tournament with a Friday night opener and a Saturday double header. Sundays are free for your family. I think people would flock to it.

How about this… Asked a kid I work with (with his mother present) if he’s ever played a full game. Meaning no time limit and a full 6+ innings. They said no. He’s now 13 and has never played a full length game. Literally every hame he’s ever played has been on a time limit. Interesting where the youth game has gone.

@BaseballDudes48 Thank you! Always looking for ways to “clean up” GC

Scorekeeping 101 Passed Ball vs. Wild Pitch PB: A pitched ball in a location that the catcher can catch cleanly in the air with ordinary effort but is missed/dropped resulting in the baserunner(s) advancing to the next base(s). WP: A pitched ball that is out of ordinary reach of the catcher or hits the dirt before reaching the catcher resulting in the baserunner(s) advancing to the next base(s). Correct scoring of these is vital for the proper scoring of earned and un-earned runs. A PB is treated as an error (though not put on the scoreboard as an error) when figuring out earned/un-earned runs. **Don’t shoot the messenger. Just trying to explain the difference between the two. Note, even if the pitcher is purposely trying to throw a breaking pitch in the dirt for a put away pitch (swing and miss pitch) and the ball hits directly in front of the catcher, it doesn’t matter if we FEEL it “could” be caught cleanly on a short hop or we feel it “should have been caught.” If the ball makes contact with the dirt before reaching the catcher and a runner is able to advance because of this, it’s a WP. Also, if the runner was already stealing on the pitch, it is a SB (stolen base). If the runner stealing is able to advance a second base on the same pitch because of the PB or WP, the runner would be awarded a SB for the first base with the pitcher or catcher being tagged with a WP or PB for the second base reached. Hope that all makes sense.

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since both of my teams won today it only feels right to add a second winner to this, right??

@RandySullivanPT Sadly, this is the state of most “lessons”. You have a bunch of guys who played the game but have zero awareness of how to cue or coach movement.

When my oldest son was in middle school I took him to a weekly pitching lesson Nice guy Pitched a few years in the minors The lesson was 1/2 hour long He warmed up for 15 minutes Then the instructor sat on a bucket behind home plate with a left handed catcher's mitt and said, "Ok stay tall. " After every pitch he said something different. Stay tall Get your elbow up You're rushing Keep your head still I wondered how he knew it what to say Was he watching the delivery? I know, I'd be watching the ball I guess he could see the beginning And the end But the part in the middle happens really fast And the ball... After about 10 pitches, the instructions go longer With a lot of demonstrations You're doing it like this I want you to do it like this My son was clearly confused But he nodded his head in agreement In total, it was about a 20 pitch lesson At the end the instructor said, "Great job. He's getting better." I wondered how he knew I handed him cash and we got in the car On the drive home I realized: nobody had measured anything except my wallet. That's when we decided to figure it out for ourselves That was 22 years ago We've figured out a lot since then Today, the Florida Baseball Armory is the most technologically advanced lab in baseball Every throw, swing, and movement is measured, analyzed And training plans are individually engineered We build the tools that win games and attract next level recruiters and scouts floridabaseballarmory.com | 866-787-4533

@TreadHQ @whitesox Can you clarify elbow slam for me? Also where was the spur? Medial or later elbow? Great stuff!

Michael Gemma went from being sidelined with a bone spur to signing with the @whitesox out of Pro Day in 12 months. 🤯⁠ ⁠ During his initial post-surgery mocap assessment, he was sitting mid to upper 80s with a low elbow, low angular velocities, and poor lower-half stability. That low slot was forcing an elbow slam, which he just had surgery to clean up.⁠ ⁠ @treadxlando breaks down exactly what he identified in the mocap and the drills he prescribed to attack them. After collaborating with Tread's Director of Rehab, James Werner, and making these mechanical changes, Gemma's elbow discomfort cleared, and his stuff started getting truly nasty. 🚀⁠ ⁠ This is what buying into the rehab process looks like. 🎯

I talk about this with my guys all the time. My HS kids are lectured daily on this. My sons team played in an 8U tournament this past weekend. We tied first game on Saturday, and was shellacked 2nd game. On Sunday we showed up in losers bracket, told the boys no chirping, no goofing off, let’s go out, compete, and see what happens. We won first game, won second game (beat the team that smashed us the day before), and then faced a TikTok baseball team for the championship. Their kids had eye black, sliding mitts, pink cleats, and the flashy colored belts. All show. We are a city league select team. This other team was a 2k/season travel team. At 8U. Wild if you ask me. Anyway, we beat them. Yes, they are 8. Yes, they got a gaudy, cheap rings. My point is, teaching kids to compete and let their play do the talking is what separates the mediocre from the best. We must have “necessary arrogance” when we take the field. @nextlevelbb is correct. Find me a group of gritty, tough, and courageous players that don’t care what they look like or what expensive equipment they have and you will find winners. No talk, no show, just grind. High level baseball people look for these characteristics when they scout players.

Lets be real and tell it like it is. Real competitors are becoming harder and harder to find. Vanity players that love showcases and convenient training are around every corner. Nice kids get their scholarships taken. Nice kids get released from pro ball. A kid can be the best kid on the team. He can sit on the front row in class and make straight A's. He can be the student body president and a kid everyone wants to marry their daughter. But. He's on scholarship and maybe NIL money to be an impact baseball player. He's on scholarship and possibly NIL money to help the coaches, program and his teammates win baseball games. If he can't make an impact athletically, he will be shown the door. It's supposed to be cruel, rude and nasty to allow the cream to rise to the top. It's a competition and it's not for everyone. Coaches want players with great makeup, but if you can't play, it doesn't matter to them. Coaches want junk yard dogs that want to dominate the competition. Coaches want dudes that can do it vs the equal and or better. Coaches want dudes with moxie, feel, different gears and heightened awareness in game defining situations. Coaches want players that take practice and games personal. Coaches want players that are more concerned with competing than their mechanics, gear and sunglasses. Coaches want players that want to be the difference between winning and losing. The players that want the ball or bat in their hand with the game on the line. Want to be a better player? Be a better competitor and you'll be a better player. Be a better competitor in everything that you do. Take everything personally, because it is. Represent the name on the back of your jersey like the toughest, most competitive player on every team you're on.

During one of the worst losing streaks of my career, our team president walked into my office. Keli McGregor. One of the best men I've ever known. He could have come to vent. To question my decisions. To ask hard questions. Instead, he said: "Cut to the chase, Clint. What's next?" I looked him in the eye and gave him two words: "Shower well." The Colorado Rockies were struggling badly that year. Pregame preparation was solid. Scout meetings, early work, attention to detail. All of it was there. But at game time, the tires were flat. I told Keli: the game did everything it could to us today. We just couldn't meet its demands. Now it was time to reset. "Shower well" means exactly this: • Watch the frustration circle down the drain • Shampoo, rinse, repeat and get the grime of today completely off your mind • Walk out clean, go home, and actually rest Leave it at the ballpark. The game is over. There's nothing left to solve tonight. Keli nodded. Asked if he could share it with the whole organization. I said sure. And then it hit me. This isn't just for baseball. Bad day at the office. Grumpy boss. Missed deadline. Traffic on the way home. You can carry all of that through your front door. Or you can shower well. I've never seen a single problem get better because someone dragged it home with them. The reset is a discipline. Same as preparation. Same as showing up. Either we win. Or we learn. The only real loss? When you don't take a single thing out of a hard day. So tonight, whatever kind of day it was, shower well. Tomorrow is a new at-bat. What does your reset look like? I'd love to hear it.

@EricCressey Little details make all the difference. A wise man once said, “do less better.”

We use "hot-feet" medicine ball rotational drills often to teach back hip loading, but we commonly see athletes who don't grasp that we're trying to create elasticity and pre-stretch in the frontal (side to side) plane. As a result, they wind up just running in place (first video) and then going into their normal rotation. One cue to get us to what we want (second video) is to simply tell them to do a mini-Heiden (or mini-skater), a drill with which they're already familiar. When in doubt, build on something they already know!