Driveline

• Hitting Concepts: Visualizing the Why Behind Hip Hinge, Hip/Torso Separation and Maintaining Spine Angle
  Because our trainers love providing both athletes and coaches access to the best resources and information, athlete education has become a big priority at Driveline. Our athlete education initiatives range from classroom sessions, blog posts and videos to after-hours talks that are geared toward getting the best results for our in-gym athletes. In the hitting […]
• Full Signal Analyses: The Next Step in Biomechanical Analysis
  Over the past two summers, our biomechanics lab has become the driving force behind our athlete training and development programs. We just finished the second summer, and are consistently impressed with the quality of the reports. Using these reports, we can pinpoint an athlete’s specific mechanical deficiencies, and then address them via targeted drills and […]
• Implementing Hitting Plyo Balls into Your Practice Plan
  Intro The Driveline Hitting PlyoCare Balls have been a staple of our in-gym and online training ever since their inception. The hitting plyo set includes four balls of differing weights, similar to the original plyo balls for pitching. Hitting Plyos have rapidly become one of our most sought-after products, therefore yielding many questions about their […]
• Bauer Units, Pitch Movement, and Evaluating Pitches
  At Driveline, Bauer Units have been used as a reference during pitch design since the pitch tracking technology such as the Rapsodo started to appear in 2016. We introduced Bauer Units in our original piece on spin rate and followed up with another article to define them more clearly. In this piece, we’ll explain Bauer […]
• Mastering The Axis of Rotation: A Thorough Review of Spin Axis in Three Dimensions
  When we observe the trajectory of an incoming pitch as it is released from a pitcher’s hand, we inevitably witness the interaction of a pitch’s total spin, release angle, initial velocity, and axis of rotation within the environment. We perceive all of this information simultaneously, and make a determination on the spot as to whether […]