What's going on guys? Coach Madden YouGoProBaseball.com here with Brent
Pourciau Top Velocity and he's gonna show us his med ball drills the drills that
he uses in his program to get some of the results that these guys are seeing so I
developed these drills when I started the program it helped me personally in
my career I was a guy who tore his rotator cuff so when I came back logging
a lot of innings on my arm really compromised what my arm could handle I
couldn't handle a lot after surgery so I needed something that would allow me the
reps to improve my mechanics without putting the wear and tear my arm and
that's where I developed these drills I'm going to talk about the different
phases that we go through with the drills and how it progresses to the
mound and to the baseball's well first I want to talk about how this works so
this is a over load approach or a weighted ball approach it's the
difference bring this and a way to baseball is we do this with two hands
and in doing this these throws will literally go through the similar throws
of delivery when we do with two hands it forces because I'm using the other hand
to keep the throwing arm engaged with the trunk and working with the trunk to
carry the energy and not working independently of the trunk which is
where a lot of the problems can happen with with arm issues and an arm injury
that's what a weighted baseball approach I believe can do when you grab a
weighted ball if my arm and my upper body isn't really synced up and they're
disengaged and I'm dragging my arm or pushing my arm and then I'm adding an
added load through the weight I find that to be an issue and that's why I
steer away from that and more towards a two-handed way to ball approach so once
like like I said when you start doing that what happens is when this stays
more engaged you you don't feel the stress on the arm as much or
considerably I mean you can throw hundreds and hundreds of these throws
and not feel a sore arm after so what that's allowing is kind of like hitters
we can get a lot more reps in without cooking and compromising our arm health
in the process so now that you understand that also too you're going to
find we don't go above two pounds two pounds is where we stop because it just
it gets too heavy and it really starts slowing us down and the mechanics you
really start getting bad you're gonna be challenged to have good mechanics on
this and that's what makes it a great drew a tool because it's gonna force you
to become more self aware of how you're moving and how to get better at it and
you're going to need a lot of the 3x pitching mechanics to
help guide you through getting better at these mechanics so we have basically two
series of drills we have an overhead series and then we have a shoulders
closed series and how this works is very similar to Olympic lifting which is a
big part of our approach it's creating variations of the pitching delivery so
you can work on little bit of little segments here and there as opposed to
trying to work through the whole thing that's why a lot of times you go to a
traditional pitching lesson and the coaches shouting things out you through
your full delivering it's very hard to make them changes and improvements we're
gonna segment it or create variations of the pitching delivery with this ball to
put less stress on the upper body and forces to get better at the legs and
core because it's a heavier object which is really the key things that create
better more total body mechanics so I'm gonna give you a walk through the
variations we basically do a chest up which is our chest open position or now
we're taking out rotation in the trunk and just working on driving the body up
the kinetic chain from the ground force all the way to the fingertips we do this
in a full stride on knee and momentum and there's key things we're focusing on
through the drills and each one of those positions and if you just want to see
how it would move in a chest opposition we're gonna lift all forward and down
the same rate pop the plate dry this will load the trunk back then the upper
body will engage and we'll throw the ball to the target we'd like to work 45
feet with these and like I said you'll find you can do a lot of reps and not be
dealing with arm soreness also - we do shoulder close series now this gets more
challenging because now I'm adding in trunk rotation it's called our
separation throws because you're actually with your back leg internally
rotated which is going to open your hips you're closing your shoulders off and
you're feeling that hip to shoulder separation so that's the hard thing guys
trying to learn hip to shoulder separation on a mound they're starting
hips and shoulders and sync and now they have to somehow figure out how to pull
them apart and it's a very hard thing to do so what we do is we start in that
position with the hips open and then the shoulders close so now they're already
there so now they get to experience what hip to shoulder separation feels like
and they'll lift in drive and they'll cock the ball all the
way back and they'll go through the same arm pass shoulder rotation arm abduction
next orientation forward trunk intermit ation to throw the ball and they'll
throw it just like throwing a baseball and this arm is supporting that's how
the guy's it's kind of like you're holding it like you're hitting and it's
supporting the the ball and your arms going to go through the same path so
drive pop the plate cock and throw and we do the same thing full stride on knee
momentum and then we work in a lateral position so we were here in a internally
rotated position which means we were already in rotation then we go to a
lateral position now we have to learn through our drives to add in rotation
get some more complex and we do that through the separation throws then we
transition it to the baseball's same drills and then we work it onto the
mound we have some a lot of peripheral drills around that to help in the
process and the goal is to use these segments these variations to implement
the 3x mechanics more easily because you're you're only working on pieces of
the delivery as opposed to the entire delivery and something I notice when
you're doing these drills you have a lot of these drills on your Instagram page
one thing I noticed you're always taking the velocity of these drugs right yeah
what is a good velocity for you guys having some of these drills a good point
so our chest up elite velocities our chest open is 40-plus so we you know
forty to forty one forty two you're doing pretty good our separation
velocities we want to go up another five miles an hour so 45 46 47 you know we've
we've seen guys all the way up to 51 we're rarely fifth 49 thinks the highest
we've seen in here but we've seen guys send us videos up to 51 so those are
really elite numbers people always like well how does that correlate to the ball
I'll tell you right now the little guys throw these slower than the big guys
because it is a added weight so if your little guy throw in a 46 yours is gonna
convert a lot better than a big guy throwing a 46 but I could say you could
double the separation throat so if you're hitting a 46 or let's say it easy
at 45 then you should be at 90 on the mound that's very common the guys that
throw 90 in here can throw 45 Plus with these med balls and you're doing all
these on the King Hill are you trying to do the same thing
with the king of the hill as you would on the mound trying to get the clique
exactly when you're throwing them right in in the thing is when you're
interesting rotated it's more just pure extension because we're not working on
rotation and then when you go in the lateral now you get to learn how to
rotate or trigger rotation and drive and we call this foot sync it's one of our
mechanical components cuz your feet up to sync up but the same thing we're
trying to now rotate and drive through the movement and you notice how we're
advancing that way we're starting linear and we're adding in rotation to me it's
a better way to learn that unfortunately and the way people come up as pitchers
today they try to learn rotation before extension before the linear movements
and it's a harder process now let me ask you this when guys are trying to throw
this 45 feet away to the mat are they trying to get it there in the air and
get it heart where they trying to go more in the line yeah when you throw
these you want to make sure you're throwing them like a fastball on a line
to the target so we work with targets well you can even work with location
with these you can play inside outside if you're bouncing if you're arcing it
you're you're not throwing it your mechanics are off so you need to make a
mechanical adjustment to work on that that's a big part of our programming how
these mechanics work around all this training is the key where can they get
some of these to pound medicine balls that yeah the the hard thing is is like
the quality of them there's some that I tried to get involved in and get you
guys some and I couldn't get a good quality so I know the best quality right
now they're the power systems and this one which I don't know the name looks
like can do or something but you'll see that you'll look at them just put in two
pound med balls on Amazon that's a good place to find them and you get these
these are going to be there's gonna last a lot longer than these other ones
obviously king of the hill you can get from my site from your site uncle rich a
site I'll leave the link down below where you can get those at also Brent
and I shot video with for tips on how to instantly increase your pitching
velocity really good stuff it's the big ideas of his pitching program so if
you're a pitcher and you're trying to increase your pitching velocity you
definitely want to check that one out all you got to do is click the first
link in the description down below it'll take you to a page where you enter your
first name in your email and I'll shoot you that video over right away and if
you watch it and you implement it you guys are going to see some results so
please go check that one out that's all I got good thanks
and we're going to talk about the top velocity pitching mechanics and some of
the big ideas we've got for so I have a basic six mechanics and it's just it's
just basically what we're doing is we're taking this one second delivery and
we're just going to cut it into six pieces