Forehand Hucks Revisited: Shoulder Tilt
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I recently received a question from a commenter on my old “Forehand Hucks” post asking about how to compensate for the natural OI that comes with the grip I epouse for flicks.
The easiest (and best) way to control for this is with your shoulder tilt. It’s easy to think that some wrist tilt can compensate, but the plane of the throw, flat or otherwise, is decided by your shoulders. A throw that naturally comes out OI becomes flat becomes IO if you adjust the plane along which it’s thrown.
IO throws mean lowering your throwing shoulder(right shoulder for a right-handed thrower); OI means raising it.
There is a bit more nuance to it than that (I’m thinking of follow-through, as IO throws tend to come closer to the body than OI flavors), but shoulder tilt is an easy and simple cue to help you debug your throws (when you’re doubtless running through your checklist while warming up).
*Photo from Scobel Wiggins’ ECC photos.
Hm. Iono about you but I've been doing a lot of thoracic A/P glides and scapular "camshaft" mobility drills I learned from Z-health and they make my throws come off like even more organic butter ^_^
Great to have shoulder mobility, but if your scapula and thoracic spine ain't movin', it'll be that much harder to be consistent
LeslieW
Oh yea, you might find this interesting Mackey.
Was listening to the StrengthCoach podcast the other day on the way to work and they were talking about how pro baseball S&C coaches are now trying to have their baseball athletes throw discs (backhands I presume) as part of their dynamics / practice, as baseball throwers tend to be overly internally rotated in the gleno-humeral joint (aka GIRD, glenohumeral internal rotation deficit, http://www.throwinginjuries.com/gird.htm).
Does that mean that folks who throw too many backhands need to throw baseballs more often? Maybe not, but tis a funny thought =)
~LeslieW