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Think of Motor Preferences like a tool belt. A tool belt helps organize which tools may be useful for the job and which ones may not be. Think about a hammer and a screwdriver. You may be able to complete the same task with either one, but depending on the job, one is probably going to be more efficient than the other. Same goes for working with players. Motor Preferences doesn’t replace your coaching philosophy, your eyes, your experience, video, data or conversations with the athlete. It gives you another piece of information to help understand which tools may make sense for the player in front of you. Sometimes that may help explain why a cue works really well for one athlete and not another. Sometimes it gives you another solution to explore when something isn’t clicking. And sometimes it may confirm that what the athlete is already doing makes sense for them. The more we can learn about the athlete in front of us, the more information we have to work with.

Sometimes athletes have a hard time trusting when something feels too easy. We’ll have athletes tell us they feel free and easy. The ball is coming off better. Their metrics improve. And yet they keep searching for more. Almost like if their body isn’t working really hard, it doesn’t feel like they’re doing enough. I get it. If I go for a run and finish without dripping sweat, part of me feels like I didn’t really work out. There’s a certain sweat equity we associate with improvement. But harder doesn’t always mean better. That’s something we think about a lot with Motor Preferences. If an athlete is performing well and telling us something feels natural or easy, that’s information worth paying attention to.

With pronation and supination pitches, a lot of the conversation for us comes back to volume. An athlete preferring one doesn’t mean they can’t throw pitches that require the other. We see pitchers use both. The question is how much of each are we asking them to use? If a pitcher shows us they prefer more pronation, that doesn’t mean supination pitches are suddenly off limits. We just may not want to build their entire arsenal around a high volume of them. Same thing the other way around. That’s an important distinction with Motor Preferences. There are so many layers beyond just pronation and supination within Motor Preferences. This obviously doesn’t encompass everything we look at when it comes to pronation and supination, but it’s one piece of the conversation. We’re not trying to put pitchers in a box. We’re trying to better understand what they may prefer so we can make better decisions around what pitches we ask them to throw, how often we ask them to throw them, and if there is a higher volume, how we can better help them recover.

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Pretty cool one for us. Some of the early days of applying Motor Preferences were with the 2022 and 2023 Maryland teams alongside coaches who are now at Alabama. Years later, we got the opportunity to bring MPE to Alabama Baseball, assess their players and continue those conversations. Appreciate Coach Vaughn and the staff for having us out! 🐘 @AlabamaBSB @rvaughnBAMA

One thing that can get lost when talking about Motor Preferences is the continuum. It’s easy to hear Aerial or Terrestrial and think every athlete falls neatly into one bucket. It’s not always that simple. Two athletes can have the same preference and still express it very differently. One athlete may sit much further toward one end of the continuum, while another may be closer to the middle. That gives us more context. As coaches, we’re always trying to put our athletes in the best position to be successful. The more we understand where an athlete sits on that continuum, the more information we have when deciding what to emphasize, what to adjust and what might be better left alone. We’re not trying to make an athlete look like their preference. We’re using the preference to better understand the athlete already in front of us. That’s part of what helps us get beyond putting athletes into categories and start actually understanding the individual.

All four of these pitchers are Aerial. But look at how different they move. That's because Aerial is only one piece of their Motor Preferences. An athlete has multiple preferences that can help us better understand how they naturally move. Put those pieces together and we start to get a clearer picture of the individual. So identifying someone as Aerial doesn't give us one delivery they should use. It gives us another piece of information to help understand the athlete we're coaching. Same general preference. Four very different pitchers. That's why we want to understand the individual before deciding on the solution.

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Before changing something, watch the athlete when they don’t think you’re evaluating them. Watch a pitcher take ground balls at shortstop. Have a hitter run football routes. Throw a football. Play hacky sack. What movement patterns keep showing up? What looks similar to how they move in their sport? What looks different? Sometimes you learn more about an athlete by watching them solve a different movement problem than by staring at the movement you’re trying to fix.

Oklahoma State OF Reese Poage shares how better understanding the way she moves helped bring more context to what works for her at the plate. Understand the individual. Then make the adjustment. @GassoCoE @ReesePoage

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Two of the best hitters of their generation. Two very different feels for how to move the bat. Which one is right? Maybe that’s the wrong question. Which one is right for the athlete in front of you?

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