Pitching biomechanics.
The lab comes to the pitcher. We measure the whole delivery and the ball it produces, not the ball alone.
- At foot strike15° hip–shoulder separation
- Stride79% of height
- Max external rotation192°
- In orderPelvis → trunk → arm496 · 790 · 4,305 °/s
- Four-seam fastball92.9 mph2,356 rpm
- Foot strike to release0.13 s
One pitch from a Biometrek capture: the skeleton is what the eye sees, the numbers are what the measurement sees.
A different question
Baseball has motion capture everywhere: at the team, at the private facility, in the training center down the road. Ball tracking and pitching mechanics are years ahead of football.
Biometrek is different in two ways. The lab is mobile, so it comes to the pitcher wherever he throws his off-season bullpens. And the question is bigger than the ball. Tracking tells you the result. Biometrek measures the entire motion that produced it and reads the two together: can he command it, can he repeat it, and can he produce the power with the least effort. We call it efficient effectiveness.
Efficiency has three parts
Consistency
Can I repeat it?
Does the delivery repeat, pitch after pitch, with very little variance?
Command
Can I command it?
Can he locate the pitch, at the right velocity, with the movement profile it should have?
Power
How do I create it?
Does the velocity come with the least effort: the body moving in order, the arm doing its share and no more?
What comes back
The report follows the same structure as the quarterback work. What repeats and what drifts. Where the velocity comes from and what it costs the arm. And the opportunities, written so they can be taken straight to the mound.
When it happens
Pitching is a small and deliberate part of the practice: off-season bullpen captures for a few elite pitchers, scheduled around their build-up to spring. If that is what you are looking for, get in touch.