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I agree the material is good. What drives me crazy is he only posts here to drive sales. If you read the thread several posted followup questions that were never responded to.
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I agree the material is good. What drives me crazy is he only posts here to drive sales. If you read the thread several posted followup questions that were never responded to.
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Is there a website to get additional information on this book?
But he replies of you email him directly, or at least he replied to me.
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He's always been great responding to my questions as well.
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I just bought it and read through it from beginning to end while I watch the Ducks play Florida. I watched most of the videos and I like what I see. "You must create resistance in a throw in order to create velocity." There's specific discussion about the difference between the throwing motions for various positions, outfield, infield, pitcher, catcher.... If you don't have any background in human anatomy or medicine some of it will have to be read a couple times. (No more technical than the hitting forum here though.) I'm going to incorporate this work with both my young catchers. Both of them are in a regular strength program and I'm happy to say most of the things I learned when I read the E-Book seem to be happening where they train. If nothing else, it re-affirmed my admiration of the work they are doing already. I was interested to read that the "average" college overhand throw velocity in softball is only 58-59 MPH. This seems low to me. Perhaps my expectations are inflated from reading about this stuff on the Internet. 
I assume though, that most catchers would have "above average" velocity to be successful.
Finally, most of the discussion about resistance seems to be directly related to a high level swing. It's the same language being used. I think it's worth the $50. There's a lot of detailed information, there to help you understand what's going on with a high level throwing motion. But, the drills themselves seem pretty simple to incorporate. I like it.
I assume though, that most catchers would have "above average" velocity to be successful.Finally, most of the discussion about resistance seems to be directly related to a high level swing. It's the same language being used. I think it's worth the $50. There's a lot of detailed information, there to help you understand what's going on with a high level throwing motion. But, the drills themselves seem pretty simple to incorporate. I like it.
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I think the NFCA had 56-58 as the average speed listed this summer. DD'S former TB coach said he liked his players to be at least at 56 (a D3 coach)
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I just bought it and read through it from beginning to end while I watch the Ducks play Florida. I watched most of the videos and I like what I see. "You must create resistance in a throw in order to create velocity." There's specific discussion about the difference between the throwing motions for various positions, outfield, infield, pitcher, catcher.... If you don't have any background in human anatomy or medicine some of it will have to be read a couple times. (No more technical than the hitting forum here though.) I'm going to incorporate this work with both my young catchers. Both of them are in a regular strength program and I'm happy to say most of the things I learned when I read the E-Book seem to be happening where they train. If nothing else, it re-affirmed my admiration of the work they are doing already. I was interested to read that the "average" college overhand throw velocity in softball is only 58-59 MPH. This seems low to me. Perhaps my expectations are inflated from reading about this stuff on the Internet.
Finally, most of the discussion about resistance seems to be directly related to a high level swing. It's the same language being used. I think it's worth the $50. There's a lot of detailed information, there to help you understand what's going on with a high level throwing motion. But, the drills themselves seem pretty simple to incorporate. I like it.
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Isolating that movement, almost looks like a weight lifting triceps press.
