Feeling stuck in your career? Go here:
https://treadathletics.com/connect/iopemg8xAn8
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Let’s talk about the “Darvish Drill”🌪️🌪️
This is a great feel for a lot of pitchers:
✅ It helps find a stable & stacked feeling on the back side before drifting.
✅ It closes off the pelvis while moving forward (making it challenging to open early for guys that have a problem leaking the pelvis).
✅ It works well for pitchers who already coil. Guys with limited hip mobility won’t be able to achieve as much coil but may still benefit from the overall feel of starting open and finding that coil a little bit later into the throw.
Typically, if this is going to be an anchor drill for a pitcher, it will feel strong, stable, and in sync almost right away.💡
We’ll test this or other constraints/drills with our remote pitchers (using radar feedback at lower efforts) to establish a pre-throwing sequence that helps them feel the mechanical factors MOST relevant to them.
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What is Tread? A message from Tread’s Co-Founder, Ben Brewster
If you’re new to this channel, my name is Ben Brewster, and since 2015 my partner Coan and I have run Tread Athletics, a remote pitching development company that has impacted thousands of high school, college and professional pitchers’ careers.
Here’s my story: at 15, I was just a driven but naive kid with a dream of playing at the highest level. This took me down a wild path, that included:
-Getting cut from travel teams and throwing low 70s as a 6’3” 155lb freshman.
-Being unrecruited out of high school (seriously, not a single offer to pitch in college).
-Landing a walk-on spot at the University of Maryland & earning a degree in Exercise Science.
-Getting drafted by the Chicago White Sox and throwing 98+ mph from the left side.
-Pushing through 5 surgeries in my late 20’s, despite people telling me to throw in the towel.
Seeing that very few pitchers, like myself, had access to the types of instructors and information locally that would truly make a difference in their careers, Tread’s remote coaching was born.
Today: Tread oversees the development of over 1,500 amateur and 500+ pro pitchers around globe (check out our interactive athlete map it’s pretty cool), and has become home to over 50 of the top Pitching coaches in the world.
Our staff operates out of a 33,000 square foot training facility in Charlotte, NC that includes one of the top private pitching labs, a biomechanics team, world-class sports medicine staff & more, as we work to lead the charge on building better, healthier pitchers.
While my own playing career has been defined by more setbacks than successes, these personal struggles give me a crystal clear perspective that Tread isn’t just about building superior pitchers – it’s about fighting toward a shared dream; whether that means making your high school team, landing a college scholarship, signing a pro contract or debuting in the big leagues.
For these players, I’m all in — let’s continue to pursue the dream together.
-Ben
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