Blog entry5/10/2008….

I am very proud and excited to bring the COMBAT PITCHER Program to the Dugout Club Training Facility! The Dugout Club is now the FIRST and ONLY facility in the Atlanta area, and the state of Georgia for that matter, to offer what I believe to be the best Pitcher Training program in existence today. It will also greatly improve any players arm strength!

This is not the static and stale version of pitching lessons you are used to that rely on as many differing opinions as there are instructors. This is a full body athletic training program with proven documented results that teaches the pitcher to move in a sequential and synchronized way without all those static and robotic stopping points that so many are trying to teach. Too many dots to connect and too much emphasis on stationary points will paralyze any athlete. This used to be referred to as “Paralyzation through Analyzation!” We more commonly refer to it as “Think long, Think wrong!” Much if not most of what is being taught today is not what a good pitcher thinks about or would ever attempt. Not only do many methods look odd, but they plain ole just don’t feel good. A good test for this is to ask the coach to do what he is teaching. Many times they can’t do it, do something entirely different from what they are saying, or look real bad doing it with poor results. Why subject your son to this? A good pitcher must be about getting the hitter out and winning the game; not worrying about where their hands and feet are at a given moment of time during a movement that requires speed, explosiveness, rhythm, timing all while plowing down a hill of varying degrees. Next might come some peculiar robotic pose inaccurately referred to as the Power-T. WHAT????? This is very difficult for an accomplished pitcher to do well, if not impossible, let alone an aspiring one! 

No pitcher in history has ever thrown the same as another so it stands to reason pitchers should not be cloned to do so. They are all built differently and must be guided through methods of discovery, balance, and intense exercise all at the same time to gain a real feel of how their body and its natural movements can be turned into a virtual whip. The arm is just one part of many the body requires to throw a ball hard and well. Velocity gains are rare and limited at best by just throwing off a mound with a coach giving opinions. Traditional coaches that believe in one cloning method through half hour sessions, and there are many out there, pass off lack of velocity gains as the student doesn’t possess those GOD given tools. HOGWASH!

I’m happy to say we are proving that head in the sand mindset wrong every day.

We are replicating what the all time greats knew about and inherently did from the time they were little boys until they were grown men. Its how they played, worked, and earned a living. This was the key to their success. They were the original COMBAT PITCHERS!