What's going on guys coach John yougoprobaseball.com here with Brent
Pourciau we're at top velocity in the headquarters Louisiana and have a small
and we're gonna talk about today 3x pitching what is triple extension how
these guys can use it to get better increase our velocity and just break it
down for us cool so triple extension simple
extension of your ankle knee and hip flexor and what that does on the drive
leg the only leg on the ground most of your delivery that is going to allow us
to create more ground force or energy from the ground and ultimately that's
how we put energy in our bodies the best is through the ground how we push off
the ground so we're gonna teach you how that works and at the end of the day
it's it's just trying to get as much extension out it and push or drive out
as you can it's just knowing the right time and that's where a lot of coaches
get frustrated when they see guys trying to drive or push they're typically doing
it the wrong times and then they're getting even worse results right you see
a guy like trying to drive really early and they start jumping even though we've
seen pitchers and do that with success it's still really really hard to go and
allow that to happen early and get a lot of success out of it the other thing is
that the timings too late if I land and then I'm trying to drive it's too late
because we know when a front foot lands on a high velocity pitcher you have
about 0.1 0.2 seconds to release the ball which is close to the blink of the
eye so you don't really have a lot of time so if I'm too late extending then
I've more likely already release the ball but like you said we're coaches get
frustrated they're is they're trying to push in the front foot strike and it's
causing them to fly open even more so the timing is just so important when you
do it and where is the timing and I say it's a short window I always used to say
the window is about from here to there when your front foot is about right here
about to land that's the time that you have to drive that off just before you
land for it to work so it's right before I land boom I Drive it off now there's a
lot of intricacies to how you drive and ultimately it goes through when you're
trying to get triple extension you have to first get triple flexion
right just like the arm if I want to if I'm going to extend the arm I'm gonna
I'm gonna have it flexed and that's what creates extension specifically when I'm
pushing so I really can't push until I get some flexion so that's what we're
doing here we're gonna lift and we do what we call forward and down the same
rate with the hip and then just before I land we're gonna be in triple flexion
and then we're gonna go in triple extension and the front foot strike some
of the more specific things that you have to learn is the the force vector
what is the force vector that's the ankle to knee
if this shin wherever it's pointing when I push force that's where the energy
goes so if it's pointing up and I push force I go up if it's pointing linear or
like a sprinter like this when I push force it goes forward so as a pitcher
that's what I want I want the energy going through my hip carrying me to the
target I don't want it going up jumping off the ground so just like we said
forward and down the same rate I'm going into triple flexion and I'm allowing
that force vector to get linear I always say somewhere pointing to the front hip
is the time that I can now drive and hopefully we're still close and that's
then when we open and we triple extend and a lot of guys to confuse triple
extension they think this is triple extension that's just really stink
extension of the ankle and knee triple extension has a rotational component to
it right before you land you have to open and what that does is it exposes
the hip so when I go to fully extend now I can get into that hip extension which
means I'm driving good hip rotation which is the lower half that's how it
when it coach says you need to use your lower half that's how you need to learn
how to use your lower half if you do that correctly you're gonna put yourself
in a better spot to have better hip to shoulder separation which we'll talk
about in other videos one analogy I like to use for this and you talked about
guys who jump off and or guys who kind of fall off one analogy I like to use is
like a car if you're in a race car and you slam on the gas you're gonna spin
out right so that's like the guys who jump off of there and if you just go
really slow obviously you're gonna throw really slow and you're gonna start
really slow in your car you got to find that perfect spot
how much gas are you gonna put in that car to not peel out but go as
fast as you possibly can right and you know people always say cuz this is what
you know before I got into coaching all we knew was dropping Drive stand tall
and fall right what drop and drive or stand tall and fall and people always
would come in to me and be like what is this and I said it's it's it's neither
and that's why I called it 3x pitching because I actually wanted to put a name
of a method out there for people to learn and not just here drop and drive
stand upon fall this is the best of both this is falling forward and out the same
rate so I can flex and load and get linear and then I can drive so it's
really technically a combination of drop and drive and stands on fall as one and
I believe in a better method and one of the key components to your pitching
program and it's one of the things we talked about in the for probably the
four most important things and we put all those four things into a video for
you guys so if you're interested in seeing that one it'll be the first link
down below you can click it put your first name in put your email in and then
we'll shoot you that video over right away definitely check that one out
because it's got again the big big stuff the big idea is that if you put it to
use you're gonna see some results so great stuff thank you very much thank
you but this video right here we're gonna talk about pitching velocity leaks
where guys are leaking their velocity and we're gonna make this a little bit
fun we're gonna have a competition I'm gonna give you one leak he's gonna give
you a one leak we haven't talked about this we don't even know what we're gonna
talk about we're just kind of just please stop Yulin right now but in all
seriousness this is gonna be some good stuff