Sequencing is the key to the pitching delivery. To help you more clearly visualize what the kinematic sequence looks like, we have added sequencing charts to the Mustard app.
There are three things that contribute to keeping a pitcher’s arm healthy: Workload, biomechanical efficiency, and functional strength. Of those three things, the one parents, coaches and athletes can all easily do is count pitches.
As a coach, you must be able to look in the mirror and say, honestly and earnestly, that the athlete comes first, that you will value process over outcome and that you will do everything in your power to use sports to improve the lives of your athletes.
Mustard's new content platform “In the Kitchen” will feature live, interactive, instructional content with coaching sessions from many of the greatest athletes and coaches of all time.
Parents should only engage with coaches in a way that facilitates their child’s learning experience and enjoyment of the game, and they really shouldn’t engage with umpires at all.
Supportive parents can be the biggest advantage youth athletes can have, but overbearing ones can be their biggest disadvantage. Coach Tom House shares tips for parents of youth athletes to help them reap the benefits of The Power of Play.
Kids need to learn basic catching and throwing skills before they should even think about learning to pitch. The process of growing up as an athlete is much more enjoyable for both kids and parents if you move at an age-appropriate pace and take pleasure in small gains.
During the pitching delivery, a pitcher’s total body needs to get to the right place at the right time with the right sequence of movements. The Mustard app looks at all the biomechanical variables of the pitching delivery in a way that is much more accurate than the eyes could ever be.
In a pitching delivery, energy is transferred from the ground up, through the legs and into the torso. Up to 80 percent of that energy is then carried into velocity by angular torque. The final 20 percent of that energy is transferred through linear torque in the torso.
As a pitcher’s shoulders begin to square up toward home plate, the glove needs to swivel so the palm is facing the chest and stabilize over the landing foot, inside the width of the torso, between the shoulders and the belly button.
In just one year, with the help of coach Tom House and Mustard, pitcher Justin Courtney went from training solo in Maine to closing for the Los Angeles Angels Low-A affiliate, the Inland Empire 66ers.
By Tom House, PhD and Jason Goldsmith, with Lindsay Berra
What is play? It’s an imaginative activity that promotes discovery and learning
and facilitates social and emotional intelligence. Play is a source
Head position is incredibly important in the pitching delivery. If your head moves too much, you’ll first have difficulty throwing strikes, and you’ll eventually run the risk of injuries from the excessive stress.
Mustard is holding its first-ever Virtual Clinic [https://shop.teammstrd.com/]
from April 25th through 30th. A year ago, the idea of virtual clinics would have
seemed crazy, but now, it’s second-nature
By Lindsay Berra
Eddie McCartney’s journey to Mustard began in a batting cage rather than on a
pitcher’s mound.
Eddie was 9 years old, and he was afraid of the ball.
A pitcher’s drag line – literally, the line the back foot makes in the dirt - clearly show whether or not your body is where it should be during the pitching delivery.
The physical act of throwing is an adaptation and an accommodation and is not something you should start and stop. Once you start throwing, you keep throwing as long as you’re going to be a throwing athlete.
Enter Mustard, the only motion analysis app that gives same-session feedback and personalized instruction based on biomechanical data from the world's best players.
