Free College/Pro Showcase at RIPS Baseball – March 4th
RIPS Baseball is putting on their annual College and Scout Nite on Monday, March 4th in our SeaTac, WA location. Come show off your pitching and hitting skills in front of 45-55 pro and college scouts....
View ArticleSeminar Announcement: ThrowZone (Santa Clarita, CA) on March 9th
I will be presenting with Jim Wagner (Trevor Bauer’s pitching coach from a young age) in beautiful Santa Clarita, CA on Saturday, March 9th at his facility, ThrowZone! (As well as a local sports...
View ArticleDoes Throwing Harder Mean Throwing Wilder?
A common sentiment amongst pitching coaches, dads, and your regular everyday baseball fan is that if you try to throw harder, you will be more wild. I’ve written plenty on this topic about it being a...
View ArticleThe 2012 Offseason Wraps Up
Wow, another offseason in the books. Can’t believe it flew by so fast! Now’s a good of a time as any to list our current clients and (in most cases) where they’ll be playing. Go support the Driveline...
View ArticleElite Weighted Baseballs Now On Sale!
The moment everyone has been waiting for (well, me at least) has arrived – our Driveline Velocity MaxVelo Elite Weighted Baseballs are now available for purchase! And to celebrate the launch, we’re...
View ArticleRecapping the 2013 Santa Clarita ThrowZone Seminar
Last week I was privileged enough to join two excellent speakers – Jim Wagner (ThrowZone) and Kenny Kallen (Velocity Sports) – in beautiful Santa Clarita, CA to talk about pitching. We had an excellent...
View ArticleGetting to 95 MPH – Advanced Velocity Development
With the season underway, our guys are getting a lot of rest and not stressing their arms very much. They limit their long toss to 120 feet, and they don’t touch weighted baseballs too much. Just...
View ArticleThe 90+ MPH Fastball Equipment – Products Used in the MaxVelo Program
We’ve put up a ton of videos on our YouTube channel, Facebook page, and Google+ pages, and we often get a lot of questions about how we use the equipment and what stuff we’re using to get the great...
View ArticleUbaldo Jimenez’s Velocity Problems
If you haven’t been paying attention to the Cleveland Indians (I can’t blame you), Ubaldo Jimenez’s velocity has dropped like a rock – especially bad in 2013 so far. Here’s the opening pitch from April...
View ArticleNew Driveline Baseball Online Shop Open!
We’ve opened up our own shop with Arm Care, Velocity Development, and Apparel sections! Our first publicly-available line of shirts are available – the Rest is Atrophy shirt: Go check out the shop and...
View ArticleTony Cingrani’s Pitching Mechanics
Taken from mlb.tv and edited out the pause from the broadcast.
View ArticleThe Stretch-Shortening Cycle Theory in Pitching Mechanics – Real or Imagined?
The Stretch-Shortening Cycle (SSC) is a fairly well-accepted theory in exercise science that has a boring definition of: A stretch-shortening cycle (SSC) can be defined as an active stretch (eccentric...
View ArticleVelocity Development Program (MaxVelo) Study Data and Conclusions
All around the Internet, you can find people with pitching programs that claim to improve velocity and arm strength – including the MaxVelo program, which is our in-house program. However, most of the...
View ArticleFrustrations with Fastball Velocity Gains: Understanding the Long Run
We’ve had a ton of success with our MaxVelo program, which just continues to be improved and improved upon (and always will be – the only constant is change). Athletes are getting a lot out of the...
View ArticlePitch Tunneling, Featuring Kevin Gausman
From today’s game (God bless technology): What I said about Kevin Gausman in my 2012 MLB Draft Recap over at THT: Gausman’s stuff is very good. I prefer guys who have learned a curve ball or at least...
View ArticleThe Layman’s Guide to Elbow Injuries and Wrist Weights
Longtime readers of this blog know that I am obsessed with technical and anatomical precision – and in many cases, the message can be lost upon your average reader. However, I try to summarize all of...
View ArticleRoger Bannister and the 95 MPH Fastball
Contrary to the article’s title, Roger Bannister was not a flamethrowing lefty. He was, in fact, the first man to break the four-minute mile in 1954. Many were trying to break the four-minute mile all...
View ArticleOpen House and Velocity Development On-Ramping: Sunday, August 4th, 2013 – 11 AM
On Sunday, August 4th at 11 AM at our facility in SeaTac, WA, we will be hosting the first open house for our Elite Velocity Development training group this off-season. Current and prospective clients...
View ArticleMaxVelo News and Notes (8/3/2013)
Since the off-season is rapidly approaching (or is here for many athletes), it’s time to start recapping things on a regular basis in our News and Notes column! Open House Reminder Our Velocity...
View ArticleMissed the Velocity Development Open House? Listen to the Audio!
If you missed the Velocity Development Open House for the 2013-2014 off-season, never fear, you can listen to a partial audio recording (redacted some of the colorful language as well as the in-depth...
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