Home› Sports Talk
Options

Human Arms Were Not Designed To Bend This Way

JackWESQJackWESQ Posts: 2,133 ✭✭✭
in Sports Talk
Guys,

I don't think human arms were designed to bend this way. Yikes! BTW, that's Hideki Okajima and Javier Lopez.

/s/ JackWESQ

image
image

Comments

  • Options
    GootGoot Posts: 3,496
    Did anyone watch the "Real Sports" where they caught up with Mike Marshall who is now teaching a new pitching motion? It's very odd, and almost pendulum like but the pitchers can throw hundreds of pitches without soreness in a single day.
  • Options
    Mercury10cMercury10c Posts: 2,958
    Okajima is a freak. I don't know how he hits the strike zone. He's looking straight down at the ground when the ball is released.
  • Options
    stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Okajima is a freak. I don't know how he hits the strike zone. He's looking straight down at the ground when the ball is released. >>



    He's the modern day Fernando Valenzuela.
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • Options
    css23css23 Posts: 297


    << <i>Did anyone watch the "Real Sports" where they caught up with Mike Marshall who is now teaching a new pitching motion? It's very odd, and almost pendulum like but the pitchers can throw hundreds of pitches without soreness in a single day. >>



    I saw that. Very interesting motion. Even more interesting the guy has basically been blackballed for teaching it.
  • Options
    JackWESQJackWESQ Posts: 2,133 ✭✭✭
    Here's a link to the video:

    Mike Marshall Pitching Technique Video

    /s/ JackWESQ
    image
  • Options
    EstilEstil Posts: 7,313 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I thought Javy Lopez was a catcher for the Braves in the 90s?
    WISHLIST
    D's: 50P,49S,45D+S,43D,41S,40D,39D+S,38D+S,37D+S,36S,35D+S
    Q's: 52S,47S,46S,40S,39S,38S,37D+S,36D+S,35D,34D,32D+S
    71T: 061,070,141,239,330,384,465,493,496,529,530,532,535,541,544,545,549,552,571,583,590,594,599,611,620,
    629,630,632,644,645,646,648,649,650,658,671,672,673,680,683,688,692,715,735,739,740,744,750
    73T:61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,80,213,235,344,379,433,453,480,497,545,554,580,606,613,630
    95 Ultra GM Sets: Golden Prospects, On-Base Leaders, Power Plus, RBI Kings
  • Options
    Bosox1976Bosox1976 Posts: 8,577 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mike Remlinger has a weird, pendulum/cantilever delivery.

    Marshall's stuff seems logical - you'd think more guys who can't make it otherwise would try Marshall's methods.
    Mike
    Bosox1976
  • Options
    fandangofandango Posts: 2,622 ✭
    the only thing i see different is no big wind up or leg kick....its like he has the pitcher square up to the plate more, perhaps taking less stress on the joints
  • Options
    bigfischebigfische Posts: 2,252 ✭✭
    If he dropped it to a 3/4 motion,. it would remind me of The Big Train.
    My baseball and MMA articles-
    http://sportsfansnews.com/author/andy-fischer/

    imagey
  • Options
    edmundfitzgeraldedmundfitzgerald Posts: 4,306 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Okajima is a freak. I don't know how he hits the strike zone. He's looking straight down at the ground when the ball is released. >>



    He's the modern day Fernando Valenzuela. >>



    Valenzuela was looking down ?
    I thought he was looking up.
  • Options
    TheVonTheVon Posts: 2,725 ✭
    I've always been surprised by baseball's total reluctance to even acknowledge Marshall's theories. You would think that with the kind of money they invest in pitchers that they'd at least want to look into this for themselves as a way of perhaps protecting their investment.
Sign In or Register to comment.