🔥The Only Path to Growth (And It’s Not a Marketing “Secret”!)

Here’s what I see in the baseball internet world: twitter guru’s post a video of someone very talented, like ROY Paul Skenes, apply a made up term to what the athlete is doing (“scap load timing!”), then try to sell their shortcut which promises to “gain instant velo with scap load timing in just 3 weeks!”

Here’s what’s important to remember: you can’t replicate TALENT

No matter how hard you try

The velocity gift: total ROM and ER of the Gleno-humeral joint; + Sulcus sign; high on the Beighton scale; is GENETIC

When you work with real life athletes you quickly learn that some have been given much

And some have been given little

Trying to play God and fuss with fixed positions in the shoulder has been a quick road to ruin for many pitchers who think there’s a shortcut

What many miss is that the vast majority of elite pitchers are ALSO tall/big/strong, and that’s what’s allowed their talent to surface to success

And THAT is the aspect of “talent” that IS trainable: developing higher levels of power, size, and plane specific force. And once guys do that, it’s amazing how 82-85 turns into high level, sustainable velo that takes them to D1 and beyond

-Fenske