Energy transfer during pitching.

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sluggers

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One of you guys is really into the "energy transfer" theory of pitching (I think it's Hal or Mark)...but, I ran across an article that everyone should take a look at it. The article is in the October, 2009 issue of Men's Health, page 142.

The article discusses work during the last two years with the "fascia". The fascia is "rubbery gunk" located under the skin that encases the muscles and bones. Recent studies are suggesting that the fascia, and not the muscles, is the stuff that actually is activated during baseball pitching--which is why "big muscles" doesn't necessarily mean "fast pitching". The fascia is a webbing of criss-crossing elastic fibers and strands connected around the bones.

So, the body is much more like a rubber band than a series of levers.

Ray
 
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Yeah, sign up on the free public side of Englishbey's site and ask him about it. He'll talk at length about it and cite more sources than you have time to read. For me, I'd say it's not one or the other but rather both.
 

halskinner

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One of you guys is really into the "energy transfer" theory of pitching (I think it's Hal or Mark)...

Twernt me! I have cited the Olympic pitching study several times and how they outlined the percentages of contribution to ball speed of the different body parts, (finger, wrist, elbow, etc) but thats it for me.

I work in the energy field, heat energy and radiant barriersbut not body energy.

Must have me confused with some other good lookin guy :)

MY FULL TIME GIG.
 
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That's interesting. I took and passed a course awhile back to become a BPI something or other. Basically did it because I found it interesting. Blower doors, duct blasters, air changes and all that. Friend of mine I took the course with is jumping off into it. Amazing the stuff a duct blaster test will turn up.
 

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