by Brent Pourciau | Sep 6, 2011 | Pitching Articles
I have been pretty tough on Alan Jaeger's approach to pitching on this site. Just recently, another well know pitching coach Paul Reddick reached out to me,with the suggestion that I should have a man to man talk with Alan Jaeger in hopes that we could get on better...
by Brent Pourciau | May 21, 2011 | Pitching Articles
The argument behind extreme long toss is that the pitcher will learn how to take the throwing velocity of a 300 foot flat ground throw and transfer it into a 60 foot pitch off of a mound. This is what I learned from watching an interview with Alan Jaeger, who uses...
by Brent Pourciau | Mar 23, 2011 | Pitching Articles
Robert U. Newton and Kerry P. McEvoy with the Centre for Exercise Science and Sport Management, Southern Cross University Australia has proven the title of this page to be true. I have been saying this for years but pitching coaches all over this country continue to...
by Brent Pourciau | Feb 7, 2011 | Pitching Articles
Maximum distance throws produce increased torques and changes in kinematics; caution is therefore advised for use of these throws in rehabilitation and training. This was the conclusion of the ASMI's case study, Biomechanical Comparison of Baseball Pitching and...
by Brent Pourciau | Jan 23, 2010 | Pitching Articles
Long tossing has been a heated debate on TopVelocity.net in the past month. The day I posted my first article against the practice of "Extreme Long Tossing" I was contacted by Alan Jaeger with Jaeger Sports. Lets just say he wasn't happy with my research. The problem...
