Reply to "Lets Talk Pitching - Ask/Discussion about pitching from professional instructor"

JH let me clarify that statement a little. First I agree with you. I wish all our coaches were well trained in exercise science or all our high schools could afford good athletic trainers. But that's not the world we live in. I know hundreds of coaches. I know two with expertise in exercise science. I live in a small town. We play against other small towns and small schools. None of them have athletic trainers and coaches are made of of PE teachers, history teachers, math teachers, and so on. That's the football coaches don't get me started on the baseball coaches. Anyway if you tell one of those coaches don't run distance run sprints instead. They will stop running the mile, the interval runs, the 600 and they will start running 10,20, and 40 yard sprints. So now the have lost all the conditioning running and are only traing their spritnting technique. Which is all short distance sprits are good for. However they don't understand proper running form so now it's a complete waste of time. At least with the mile run their played got some benifit from it.

But again yes I wish all coaches were trained enough. It's just not going to happen. Especially at the HS level.