Pourciau Top Velocity we're in his house right now and in fact I made a video a

while ago called the nine pitching velocity killers and then Brent came

like a little bit later maybe what how many was it ten maybe was yeah I'm only

going on one out of you man so he made ten pitching velocity killers

both great videos yeah but then you were like I'm coming back at you yeah I said

I'm doing 11 velocity killers you jerk but this video right here we're gonna

talk about pitching velocity leaks where guys are leaking their velocity and

we're gonna make this a little bit fun we're gonna have a competition I'm gonna

give you one leak he's gonna give you a one leak we haven't talked about this we

don't even know what we're gonna talk about we're just kind of Seuss please

stop yelling right now but in all seriousness this is gonna be some good

stuff because at the end of the day if you're if you're creating energy and

then losing it you're not getting as much as you can out of your kinetic

chain and that's what we're trying to do as pitchers we're trying to create

energy from the ground transfer through our kinetic chain and get it out through

the ball and remember this could go into mindset this could go into what you ate

I mean we could be here for a long time so do we want to stick with mechanics on

that what you want

all right Brent's gonna win this let me start with the first pitching velocity

leak and the first thing that I see and the probably the biggest one that I see

is the front leg you might in my opinion I see so many guys when they land

they're leaking out forward this way or out this way they're getting too much

rotational energy in there and they're kind of leaking out that way so that's

the biggest thing that I see as far as the leak goes for me when I see that I

like to work on and I want you to elaborate on this before you get into

your league too but what I see with that is it's either a lack of obviously how

we're using our rotational and linear energy one could be a strength issue not

strong enough to brace up or mobility issues so those are the three things

yeah can you elaborate on that no I mean I think you nailed it I think

it's I mean one thing I would probably say even more than strength issue it's a

power issue because it's strength just says you can you can hold a force it

doesn't see how quickly you can hold a force and we know in the front foot

lands you got point one point two seconds and you can't have any

any movement because studies show high velocity pitchers don't have any lead

any movement so you got to catch it immediately and that's power so now

there's a time to when you create your force and that that's what power means

means or what they call rate of force development how quickly do you turn that

force on and you see a lot of guys who are when they get in here and they brace

up that knee comes back it tracks back and they go this way but you don't have

to be straight do you know at the end of the day it's just it's it's just getting

energy of the ball and of course you got to create it and that has to do with you

creating it and it has a high correlation of velocity the more you can

extend it but it just it's how hard you want throw yeah I mean you have to say

if I did get more extension before release I would have thrown harder

because that's what the studies show okay what do you got number two oh I'm

gonna go back leg so you know we get this a lot when guys come to the leg

lifts and they start moving they collapse that leg right they collapse so

like why is that a problem collapsing the leg is because the legs stay strong

in external tation think about when you squat we squat here nobody squats like

that right so let your wattage in CrossFit fails on anything so that if we

go here then we anti rotate we lose stability I'm not stable here and then

we just we collapse and then we try to overcompensate so that's a big one

collapsing back leg is huge okay now let me ask you this and you can elaborate on

this I would I talked about as far as back leg goes I think differs a little

bit from what how you speak about it for me I call it the angled corkscrew so I

actually do want to be inside of my back foot slightly and I think that you have

to have good hip mobility to do this to create that I don't want to collapse it

I want to create that angle and then kind of corkscrew out spurt the foot

towards you yeah so what I was just saying is you're right I don't

you'd be in 20 rotated it is better to be externally rotated but yeah you can

keep it inside your knee you just need to be exercising rotate so that is a

good point awesome awesome this so this would be

number three right pitching velocity leak number three what I see is guys who

lose their energy with their upper body so they leak out energy this way they

don't block off okay and I'm interested to hear your thoughts on this because I

don't think I've ever seen a video where you talk about this I'm sure there is

one I just haven't seen it what I what I like to teach my guys is when they

separate to be 45 degrees closed off for more this way with their arms but then

when they unwind they want to block that energy off so they can get finished more

linear this way if you've got a guy who just spins out and flies out the way I

like to think about that is all your energy is going this way it's almost

like you're running if you were running with a flag if I'm running this way with

a flag the flag is gonna be going that way if I'm pulling all my energy out

this way all my energy is gonna go this way my arms gonna fly out and I'm gonna

be leaking my energy that way that's a great one glove side is a key one

studies show that low velocity pitchers have more left to right movement with

their glove sides high velocity pitchers are more they just turn it over

typically and and then it the energy is really coming from somewhere else so

you're right if you're using this to create injury in their energy it's

usually rotational energy and it's flying it off and taking your energy

somewhere else that's a huge one really good one you're up no more so here we go

I'm gonna talk about that the posture let's talk about posture and head in the

head position right so if either way if my head gets too far this way my head

gets too far that way if my head gets too far this way if I head gets too far

that way it kind of goes along with what John's talking about leaking or pulling

across your body this is your posture this is the balance of where you are so

I have to really keep this over my mike my trunk over my hips and like like the

whip all moving balanced towards the target and once I let this head go here

where do you think my Energy's going you know that election that's why you see

sidearm pitchers they start moving like a regular pitcher and then their head

starts doing that and that's where we go i'm--you're where if I start leaning

this way then you know that I'm flying off this way or if I want to start early

and then everything transfers early so to me the head the posture is huge to

prevent a big loss energy and in all directions I always say the best place

it needs to be is just behind your front hip so just behind it not all the way

back here because that could slow me down right or not in front of it not

over my my belt buckle not over my but just int balance just

behind my front hip and then it's all about riding all that energy towards the

target at the end of the day we're athletes we should be athletes we need

to be athletes and you got to be able to use your body the right way and that's a

great one I like that number five I'm glad you're

keeping up with the numbers here we're gonna track the number five what I got

for you is let's talk about the separation from the lower body and upper

body I see a lot of guys when they start pitching and maybe this is not so much

of a leak but just not getting as much as they could have right yeah so when

they when they're driving out their shoulders are moving with their hips and

I see this a lot with especially younger guys high school age guys even some

college guys you'll see that too obviously they're not throwing as fast

because they're not getting the separation that they need hip to

shoulder separation you want to have more separation between your lower body

and your upper body and like I said before I like to tell my guys to

separate at 45 degrees or more closed off so now you've got this upper body

already closed off as you start moving down the mound and once you get used to

that timing of separating the lower body to the upper body you're gonna be able

to create more energy or get more out of the energy that you're creating to put

it through the baseball so that's number five you got anything to add to that no

I think you know that sounds pretty good you got number 66 right now here we go

so we should get into the arm path I think the arm path is gonna be key too

so just like we want to separate just like we want to pull hips and shoulders

apart we've got to be careful with this and we get into the arm path if we

overdo it we exaggerate the tips I'm giving you it could throw off the timing

and really hurt your arm so you got to be careful when you start playing with

the arm path stuff but just like wanting to separate the hips and shoulders we

have to take the elbow and we have to load the SCAP or pull it back and get it

you know is me not trying to overdo it but get it nice and tight and pull it

behind the shoulder because just like pull in the hip and shoulder apart gives

you more time to create energy pulling the elbow away from the shoulder gives

you even a little bit more time to load the arm and carry that energy forward so

and there's a study that also showed that they compared Korean pitchers to

like I think American pitchers and one of the key things that Korean

pitchers then they through slower than American pitchers on average in the

study the one key things that they weren't doing as well as they weren't

it's called horizontal abduction pulling the elbow behind the backs cap loading

there so like I said be careful with doing that because it can go it can go

bad if you go too far and get too aggressive with it but it is a key point

so if you're if you're cocking the ball here and then you start cocking it here

you know it's a leak you're losing energy cocking it out here than if you

were cocking it a little bit more behind your scalp and you'd get more separation

as well right it will add even even if you're here and you've got good

separation with your shoulders you'd be better if you were more Scout loaded

SCAP loaded yeah cool another one seven seven who knows seven no I did six okay

so for this one I'm gonna talk about flicking the wrist here all the time

you gotta flick that wrist to get the backspin and get maximum velocity right

I disagree and I don't know where you stand on this but if you're coming

through and you're trying to stay straight behind that ball and flick like

this you're gonna be losing a lot you're gonna be leaking a lot you're not gonna

be getting as much as you could how I see the wrist working is we're going

from supinating which is kind of this position with the wrist to as I get to a

release point I'm turning it over and pronating it

through a release point so that's kind of the flick of the wrist if you will or

how I think you should work or how I used to feel it working was coming

through it and getting extension not only with the wrist but the shoulders as

well so getting the extension with the front shoulder and then coming through

it so my extension with the wrist coming over and and pronating is how the wrist

should really work in my opinion what you think about that guy yeah I think as

I add to it is like everything's action reaction so the action is what's

happening when you're turning your shoulders and your cocking your arm it

actually throws force in what's called supination which is the thumb going back

so you're actually trying to resist that force right so you cock the arm and you

turn and this wants to swivel against that movement and you resist it so what

is the the action of resisting a supinated forced pronation so that's why

you gotta be careful like trying to point the ball to second base you got to

be careful like if you're doing this long arm

you might be preventing that good supinated resistance which fires all

that good pronation that john is talking about

so think action-reaction what's the action the action is to resist

supination to then turn and also to to resist external rotation because that's

what you're trying to do you don't want your arm to keep spinning around and

that's going to create the reaction of internal rotation pronation right so

just be careful when you're playing with your arm that you're not not allowing it

to do that to create that nice efficient release of the arm movement but because