EBT Elite Baseball Talk: Episode Seven- Importance of Understanding a Players Movement Profile

Thanks to the joys of technology, this week’s guest had to be rescheduled, but as the saying goes, the show must go on.

In this week’s episode, as is been in episodes past, Justin and Travis dive into a wide variety of topics with this week being a little heavier on the throwing side of things but with an underlying theme of the importance of identifying movement profiles and conducting movement screens.  Along with:

-      Surface comps vs reality in terms of movement

-      Why not to prescribe a certain movement without knowing the athletes underlying capability

-      Experience with the TPI certification in Atlanta

-      Passive vs Active Range of Motion

-      Discussion of “whip” in correlation with shoulder and hip separation

-      Patience with younger/looser moving hitters

-      Dealing with how athletes perceive themselves

-      Why fast turning athletes are potential “red flags”

-      Chasing exit speed and velocity while cheating the showcase/tryout metrics

-      Where does the batting tee fit in a training program?

-      Discussing different eras of baseball

-      Diving in-depth with some certain traits of Ken Griffey Jr, Tim Lincecum and Aroldis Chapman

-      “Cooke Cutter” style approach of teaching athletes

-      Optimal Stride Length of pitchers

-      Creating and understanding of proprioception

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