by Brent Pourciau | Jan 28, 2009 | Pitching Articles
Professional Baseball is full of hard-throwing tall pitchers. Long and slender pitchers who throw the mid to upper 90s like A.J. Burnett and Aroldis Chapman. At this moment, Major League scouts are combing the earth looking for these rare specimens. This is why it is...
by Brent Pourciau | Jan 14, 2009 | Pitching Articles
Using the overload underload approach to train a young pitcher's arm increase arm speed is the right concept but the wrong approach when using weighted baseballs on a young pitcher. The problem is with using weighted baseballs on a young pitcher, who more than likely...
by Brent Pourciau | Dec 10, 2008 | Pitching Articles
I have heard many players and coaches say that weight training will not increase pitching velocity. I have even heard them say that it will hurt the pitcher. I understand that this is many parents, coaches and players concerns because it seems to be conventional...
by Brent Pourciau | Dec 7, 2008 | Pitching Articles
Pitching velocity keys in a car crash? I am sure you are asking, "What does a car crash teach us about pitching velocity?" It actually teaches us pitchers everything we need to know to truly understand how pitchers generate top velocity. The reason for the correlation...
by Brent Pourciau | Dec 1, 2008 | Pitching Articles
There are hundreds of tips to increase pitching velocity on the web titled something similar to this article, but most of them are worthless because they focus mainly on upper body mechanics as the means to increase pitching velocity. Any hard thrower will tell you,...
