HOME GROWN JEDI MOVEMENT ACADEMY

MISSION: 

• Optimize each player's genetic potential, maximize performance, decrease the risk of injury, and improve fundamental skill development with progressively integrated, advanced combination of technical fundamental skill movement strategies by handcrafting brave, aggressive, relentless self made, self coached warriors in their adaptive journey of trusting the transformational process and making their dreams their reality. 
• Facilitate each player's success, development, and skill set with an old school farm fitness customized movement blueprint. 
• Intervene with purposeful movement strategies and deeply rooted principles of physiological truth as the foundation for our programming, regimens, and adventure sessions. 
• Value intense physical labor as part of the transformational process mentally, emotionally, and physically. 

OBJECTIVES, EXPECTATIONS, SOLUTIONS for each PLAYER: 

• CUSTOMIZATION.
• Gift each player the preparatory tools needed to SELF COACH mechanics, movement strategies, and daily movement regimen plan. 
• Forge self made, self coached, self reliant players.
• Develop independence with a movement Rx menu with specific video links of movement strategies and calendar for the off-season and in-season). 
• Develop an advanced understanding (integrated spatial awareness) of transformational zone function (mechanical sequencing of throwing, pitching, hitting), the driving forces of those transformational zones, how to self coach and make adjustments on the go, and to have a deeply embedded feel of motion and the positions established for those transformational zones and what movement strategies can be used to improve performance. 
• Simplify mechanics with cue words and shift to subconscious movement based body awareness guided actions and self coaching. 
• Grow in their understanding of their unique one of a kind kinetic chain, how to make adjustments with daily movement strategies, and how to self diagnose and troubleshoot some basic needs. 
• Develop a customized off-season and in-season throwing program (pitchers and position players) and hitting program while understanding the need physiologically. 
• Enjoy baseball again and the ability to engage in unsupervised free play and self exploration. 
• Detoxify from the game's mediocre mindset. 
• Intervene with OUTSIDE (any and all condition) based arduous physical activity designed to forge rugged, tough, disciplined, athletic men.  
• Encourage free play to facilitate curiosity and learning opportunities. 
• Increase volume of activity to enhance work capacity and thresholds.
  

Evidenced based practice, openers, pitch counts, protocols, non-contact injuries, cadaver anatomy, “injury prevention”, fake science institutes, the trade of self-exploring/trouble shooting, helicopter coaching, and money ball. 

How higher education hijacked MLB & MILB, infiltrated the game with feminism and fear, neutered men…stole their testosterone, mutated tough/rugged/masculine DNA with soft fragile factory protocols via intellectual elitism, implement a play “defensive” means of preparing and playing while desperately attempting to cancel manliness and its bravery in place of obedience. 

MLB today: 

Today we have more medicine, science, research, and technology than ever before. MLB organizations have spent millions of dollars pouring funding into developing fake science labs to "prepare" athletes better, to "analyze" their movements, and have developed several other major league coaching positions and minor league coordinator positions on the front of assistant coaches, game strategists, and quality control coaches. As progress has it in the naturally occurring advancement of human progress as part of the learning process, common sense would and should lead players, coaches, and a fan base to question if as a whole players and organizations have gotten any better, if they are at less risk of injury and spend less time on the Injury List (they don't, they number continues to sky rocket yearly), are performing better, and if the game of baseball from a skill set perspective is better.  

In today's MLB/MILB, every step of a player's day is planned out. There’s very little control they have over what they can do and when they want to do it without being told what to do. “OVER STRUCTURED”, they can’t think for themselves, unable to self-coach and make adjustments, unable to perform activities independently without having to tell someone what they did and being told quickly not to do that. If we have more science, research, medicine, and technology than ever before and many more coaches used for "development", "game management", to help "prepare", and "analyze", shouldn't we have fewer injuries and shouldn't performance be better? We don't have fewer injuries, in fact the game of baseball continues to progressively set yearly records with Injury List time and incidents of major injuries requiring surgical intervention. Players are spending fewer days out on the field for actual live BP and pregame activities. They're leaving the clubhouse's climate controlled air conditioning less and less for skill work and conditioning, more than ever before. We have starting pitchers that are pulled after two innings of work, outrageous pitch count meters, and now openers. Coincidentally the game of baseball today has the most de-conditioned players mentally, emotionally, and physically. Lack of preparation has become the PANDEMIC. WHY? 

Culturally we're living in a time in which we have the most sedentary, inactive, de-conditioned society of young adults and kids in the history of our country and  civilization. The obsession with "travel ball" has developed unidimensional athletes unable to be athletic and make adjustments, over trained, over worked, pattern overloaded with slow methodical, cookie cutter mechanics. The current culture of technological fixation, poor sleep patterns, poor nutritional intake has developed a pandemic of unfit creatures that are able to successfully evolve and survive the elements outside of the 70 degree climate control setting of being indoors. We have educational systems teaching kids what to think, not how to think. 

Although the Ivy league influence is relatively newer to the game, the "money ball" approach is not. The game of baseball has become a SABERMETRIC THINK TANK in which every player is now a number forced to behave within the boxed in framework of statistically relevant patterns only, no longer relying upon and trusting one's skill set. A cookie cutter, one size fits all, lack of individual value system has been developed. WHY? Control, fear, lack of accountability. It's easy on all fronts to use the Evidenced Based Practice approach. There's no accountability involved, but has all authority without the opportunity for any questions asked. Fear and control drives these dictators. When one fears loosing their job (coach, coordinator, medical and training staff member), lacks an understanding of physiology and activity intervention thresholds and volume and its influencing in stimulating adaptation and performance, and true player development from the perspective of daily preparation you will have "leaders" behave in these manners. There's no need to have accountability for anything you suggest when there's a one size fits all protocol to recommend and prescribe. When something goes wrong, it makes it easy to state that you were just following protocol and that's how things are done so that you don't loose your job. The injuries are the symptoms. A problem will never be fixed treating the symptoms, because they're just the symptoms, not the root of the pathology, compensations, limitation, and dysfunction. 

The PHARMA "pill for an ill" EVIDENCE BASED APPROACHES are widely used on the medical, rehab, training, and strength and conditioning side of implementation. It's hard to be accountable for what you do when you're relying upon an industry "standard", a one size fits all approach. It's impossible to believe strategies from that implementation mindset would actually work, but "professional" continue to act out/behave in the form of their skill set with what they know. Anyone at anytime should be able to stand and provide a solid physiological basis for what they're doing in place of a regurgitated Evidenced Based Practice highlight as to what is done today. The fear of loosing one's job because of providing information, changing techniques, or exercises for a player and the infatuation of playing it safe in order to not have one's very limited skill set exposed are mediocre, minimum wage mindset plagues within the game. Fear is how organizations, coaching staff members, and medical staff members operate. With the fear of loosing one's job, comes the duty to document everything a player does. The helicopter Mom, nanny state. 

Gone is self experimentation, self learning, being self made. Gone is free play and replaced with soft, fragile men under prepared, de-conditioned, unable/not encouraged/not challenged to work. We have MLB players that very infrequently leave the climate controlled club houses of video games and technology in fear that someone may get hurt taking ground balls, throwing, taking BP on the field because it's too much for the body stepping outdoors on the nicest grass surfaces in the world to sweat and be pushed while honing a craft. Strikeouts are at all time highs, it used to be shameful to strike out 50-60 times in a season, players are now doing that monthly. Teams now have openers because pitchers can't last throwing 50 pitches, fear of injury. Fielding and errors are at all time highs. Situational baseball IQ's and movement IQ's within the game are at the maturity level of 5th graders. 

The Evidenced Based Practice (research world) emphatically declares that knowledge is power, trust the science and the statistics. Indeed numbers emphatically don't lie. Those that declare such dialogue within organizations easily have exemption because they are just "following the research". There's unlimited authority and no accountability. A player no longer has any control over their own body and what they can do to prepare. The evolution of non-contact injuries, protocols for rehab, PREHAB/INJURY PREVENTION (busy work to push a player through a season without getting one better) is and has been institutionally driven by individuals with pieces of paper lacking common sense. 

There is a tremendous amount of weight and fear instilled in those that are not obedient to research protocols, stats, data, and the control of PHARMA, special interest groups and their impact on outcomes, performance. Basic truth based physiology is not present because it's not understood and it's not practiced. The injury pandemic is due to controlled, safe, mediocre, factory, minimum wage mindsets making soft, fragile, de-conditioned men that are asked to use their body in competition to perform physically and mentally at a high level and repeatedly that are no longer prepared. A big cultural shift to inactivity, fear of injury/fear of having players do anything, 1 sport athletes, being told what to do, when to do it, and how to do it has all but made the self made, self taught/coached athletic extinct. 

MOVEMENT STRATEGIES and THROWING MECHANIC OBJECTIVES and OUTCOMES: 

• Optimize biomechanical efficiency and transformational zone functionability with integrated kinetic chain (total body) movement strategies. 
• MAXIMIZE GENETIC POTENTIAL in competition and sport by maximizing movement efficiency, adaptability, and athleticism to facilitate the body's ability to be more aware of its position in space and motion it is and has created by making adjustments on the go. 
• Condition each individual physically, biomechanically, metabolically, and genetically as are the root foundation consistency, efficiency, and repeatability. Mechanically one will not be able to make adjustments and perform, move a certain way if they are not moving correctly. 
• DESIGN A BLUEPRINTED PLAN to get athletes moving with a PURPOSE. MECHANICAL adjustments will NOT be sustainable or sufficiently made with a de-conditioned individual. 
• Movement improves mechanical sequencing, efficiency, repeatability, and consistency. Sustainability of mechanics WILL NOT hold without addressing and eliminating the root of orthopedic compensation patterns and pathology. We seek to make mechanical changes and take athletes through the overhaul transformational process by improving athleticism via fundamental skill development, conditioning, learning and practice via organized self exploration and simplifying the task by facilitating a subconscious, reactive response. 
• Learn the skills needed to COACH YOURSELF. 

CUSTOMIZED THROWING PROGRAM OBJECTIVE FOR POSITION SPECIFICITY (PITCHERS, CATCHERS, INFIELDERS, OUTFIELDERS): 

• Optimize conditioning physically, mentally, and emotionally. 
• Maximize outcomes by optimizing kinetic chain performance, recovery, and genetic potential. 
• Maximize efficiency, consistency, durability, and repeatability of delivery with the SAID’s principle. 
• Master and optimize pitching transformational zones (position and motion) through athletic motor development in order to transform and sustain pitching mechanics for an outing and season. 
• Maximize integrated kinetic chain functionability and physiological characteristics of functional and core strength, mobility, stability, balance, power, endurance with daily customized movement Rx in order to optimize pitching TRANSFORMATIONAL ZONES (TZ’s). 
• Master the art of self-coaching adjustments and transformation of delivery transformational zones on the go. 
• Ability to trust the preparation process.
• Optimize performance adaptability to chaotic, unstable, unpredictable situations properly controlling the response of the sympathetic nervous system’s (fight/flight) response in intense situations and down regulation into the parasympathetic’s (rest/digest) in a wide range of geographically extreme settings (humidity, heat, cold, elevation, rain, snow). 
• Customize an off-season and in-season blue print for long toss and bullpen regimen to build endurance, strength, optimize recovery. 

LONG TOSS OBJECTIVES: 

• Optimize and facilitate authentic bottom up (lower extremity ground up driven) sequencing throughout kinetic chain. 
• Establish a foundational platform of durability through progressed intensity, distance, and volume. 
• Volume is a transformation foundation, adaptability, learning
• Establish proper sequencing of a bottom up driver. A customized, well strategized long toss program (Off-season and In-season) will establish the framework and foundation for proper kinetic chain sequencing. 
• Optimize physiological principles of the stress/strain curve (cellular regeneration, immunology, fibroblast formation) through movement efficiency by overcoming and positively using the effects of gravity, momentum, inertia, and ground reaction forces with bottom up approach to properly integrate kinetic chain function to resist deformity, adapt, and optimize durable, repeatability of efforts (intensity), and optimal transfer of force throughout kinetic chain. 
• Optimize transferability of confidence, sustainability of level of effort given, lower extremity coordination, motor control, neuromuscular efficiency, dynamic power, reactive agility and stability, functional strength, and balance (in motion) of the lower extremity. 
• Develop the durability and adaptability for the chaos, instability, and unpredictability of competition (environment, situation, geography/climate)
• Master proper pitch intensity control and adaptation: 
• Pitch intensity is driven by physiological limitations and thresholds and the durability of the neuromuscular system, arthrokinematics, and osteokinematics (usage and sustainability of dynamically functional strength, stability, mobility, balance, power, endurance), nutrition, immune system, circadian rhythm, and autonomic nervous system (sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system regulation) ability to efficiently overcome
• Pitch intensity is relative to the situation:
• Batter
• Count
• Inning
• Time of the year (Spring training vs early season, mid-season, post season)
• Environment (home vs away and the wide range of potentially hostile away park crowds).
• Geography/climate (hot (humid or dry), cold, wet (snow or rain).