FREE Marc Pro – Driveline Baseball Giveaway
Have you ever discovered a tool so useful you wonder what life was like before you found it? For years, Driveline Baseball has encouraged training hard and training often. “Rest is atrophy.” “The...
View ArticleWeighted Baseballs vs. PlyoCare Balls – What’s the Difference?
We get a lot of questions on Twitter, YouTube, and in our gym about the differences between weighted baseballs and PlyoCare balls. Considering that many pitching coaches use TAP Balls or PlyoCare balls...
View ArticleThe Reinvention of Casey Weathers – Restoring What Tommy John Took
Casey Weathers was the first round pick of the Colorado Rockies (8th overall) in 2007 after putting up incredible numbers at Vanderbilt – striking out 75 over 49.1 innings while allowing fewer than one...
View ArticleDemonizing Early Specialization – Flawed Research Interpretation
A generally-accepted tenet of youth sports training is to avoid early specialization – meaning that kids should have more unstructured play time and not get locked into a single sport at an early age....
View ArticleHacking The Kinetic Chain Pre-Orders Are Live
Hacking the Kinetic Chain – Book Trailer from Driveline Baseball. Driveline Baseball is proud to announce our new book of Hacking The Kinetic Chain: The Complete Guide to Training High-Velocity...
View ArticleVelocity Training: Perfecting the Overhead Medball Throw
Plyometric training is a key component to developing explosive power that can be applied to the throwing motion. This revelation is nothing new – coaches have been using medicine ball drills for years,...
View ArticleHacking The Kinetic Chain – Sample Chapter and Full Table of Contents
Hacking The Kinetic Chain will be shipped on December 17th, complete with video library and in-season/off-season workout guides. We are excited to present the full table of contents and a sample...
View ArticleSequencing the 95 MPH Delivery
In Hacking the Kinetic Chain, we’ve developed a system that has evolved over six years of research and development and took over two years to fully write. Unlike other products, we do not shy away from...
View ArticleHacking your Arm Action: A hidden power of overload training
By Ben Brewster Weighted baseballs can be controversial. I get it. If throwing a regulation 5oz ball leads to insane injury rates amongst pitchers, even at the highest levels of the game, it stands to...
View ArticleKeeping Pitching Simple – Setting Artificial Ceilings for Your Athletes
At the 2015 ABCA Convention, the overarching message from pitching coaches and attendees alike was the idea that things need to be “kept simple.” That going into deep detail was ultimately very...
View ArticleRotational Lateral Bounds – Improve pelvic loading to build elite velocity
The lateral bound, also called the lateral skater jump or lateral heiden (named after former Olympic speed skater Eric Heiden) is a fantastic frontal plane lower body exercise. It gets athletes out of...
View ArticleChallenges with Typical Biomechanical Analyses of Pitching
This is a guest post from Dr. James H. Buffi, Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering. It is impossible to overstate how excited I am to have Dr. Buffi contribute to our blog in what will be the first article...
View ArticleA More Forward Approach to Understanding Pitching Biomechanics
This is part two of three of the initial guest posts by Dr. James Buffi. Part one was titled Challenges with Typical Biomechanical Analyses of Pitching. It is impossible to figure out if a specific...
View ArticleDriveline Seminar List for Early 2015
After the release of Hacking The Kinetic Chain and an awesome time at ABCA, Driveline Baseball is hitting the road in 2015. Kyle will be giving talks about what works and what doesn’t when it comes to...
View ArticleHow Muscles Work and Protect a Pitcher’s Elbow
Let’s talk about muscles. Muscles are the motors of the body. They are the components that generate movement. They can also absorb dangerous forces to protect more vulnerable tissues, like ligaments,...
View ArticleRehabilitating Tommy John Surgeries – Non-Standard Cases
Most cases of ulnar collateral ligament replacement (UCLr, or “Tommy John” surgery) follow a fairly standard throwing program and rehabilitation program. A sample throwing program once cleared to throw...
View ArticleWhy Overuse May Not Be Baseball’s Problem
This post was written by Dr. James Buffi. ‘Overuse’ is being blamed for the eruption of Tommy John surgeries among baseball pitchers. Consequently, people in baseball have become hyper-focused on...
View ArticleWhy Sir Isaac Newton is Still the Foremost Expert in Pitching Biomechanics
This post was written by Dr. James Buffi. Most people have heard of Sir Isaac Newton and his famous laws of motion. Most have not heard that he was an expert in modern pitching biomechanics. So let’s...
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Explaining the Elbow Spiral in the Pitching Delivery
Hayden Grove conducted a great interview with Trevor Bauer of the Cleveland Indians discussing pitching mechanics at a very in-depth level. I have to give Hayden some props; most beat writers wouldn’t...
View ArticleCan Imaginary Exercise Make a Pitcher Better?
I won’t bury the lead. The answer is yes, it is highly likely that imaginary exercise can make a pitcher better. In the early 90s, several researchers set out to test the efficacy of pure imaginary...
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