In 1998, in Chicago, biggest class school Evanston, state semi-final game, my adopted son carried the ball 57 times for 397 yards and 4 TD's. Some dudes are just workhorses.
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% wise, how many big league pitchers throw their arm out?
It's about mechanics, it about not having a strength imbalance in the 5 main muscles in the rotator cuff.
Kids rarely get taught at a young age how to separate thumbs down and the elbow above the shoulder, pulling an pushing off the mound. When you get that part down, with that comes arm speed.
One thing I would add for anyone who has a kid who pitches. You should have them do what is called "arm hangs."
When they're done working out, throwing a bullpen, or throwing in a game, they should then find a small fence or a bar and just hang down with their feet off the ground. The gravity forces the blood that gets pooled in the shoulder to evacuate the area and leads to zero sore arms.
When they don't do anything, it causes the blood in the arm to "pool", kind of like scabbing, and hence you get the really sore arms. When they throw a lot and don't use proper aftercare on the arm, the blood rushes to the traumatized area of the shoulder and blood pools there as if it is rescuing the area. Then the kid can't even pick his nose the next day.
Then a nice 20 minutes with a Pro-Ice or just a arm pack and they are ready to go. You can even do what is called a "shake-out".
If you take care of their arm,, their arm will take care of them.
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How many times in a highly competitive tennis match does each player use 100% effort serving or returning the ball? No wonder their primary arm is sometimes 3"-4" bigger than their non-use arm.
1998...was that 6A...Didn't Evanston get worked over by Downers South (My Rival HS!!!)
Seaver, Clemens, Morris, Ryan, etc etc etc. Those dudes are just workhorses.
Who knows! But serving much harder motion than pitching because you have a racket in your hand and you play the the next day.
Right, and they play the next day...and the next day...and the next day. Hence they don't have a vagina on their arm.
Oh I know!
I just remember they got the shit beat out of them (I think) by a good DGS team (**** them) and of course, as usual DGN had a better season.
Why didn't your team try passing at all? Good lord!
Honestly, it is really not fair, the Chicago Burb teams kill everyone (except Mt. Carmel) come playoff time.
I got to play against East St Louis in HS, in the playoffs. That team was unreal.
I agree, at the highest level that sport taxes so many different body parts its crazy. I gotta believe by that 5th set of a grueling match, even that racket feels heavy.
I remember they lost, but I also remember my adopted son gave one helluva effort.
Hell, I remember in the late 60's where Bill "Earthquake" Enyeart ran the ball 50 times a game for Oregon State in two straight games.
I "think" (not going to look it up) they beat Purdue who was ranked #2 in the country one week, and the next week beat USC who was ranked #1.
Exactly...
Coaches have gotten stupid with "rest".
HS kids can work a part time job, go out the night before a game, have fun, come home, play video games until 2am, get 4 hours of sleep, eat garbage all day, and still go play a game.
And that's after they hop on a bus for a 6 hour roundtrip road game. And, like you say, still have energy to burn.
We'll be pulling for the Horned Frogs too.
**** the York Dukes! But they were good in CC!
I went to DGN. We kind of owned the West Suburban Silver (in football), well, sort of.
My buddy Bill Lech was a decent QB for the Dukes, then went back and coached them for a spell. I think took them to the state semis in the mid 2000. Good dude.
Yeah, they used to suck but turned it around a bit. The Chicago burb HS's play super good football.
You have your Mt, Carmel but then you are looking at all the Naperville schools, Wheaton schools, West Sub Schools, like DGN, York, Hinsdale C, Glenbard West...then East St Louis which is way the **** out there.
We played them in the playoffs two years in a row, both at their place...a freaking 5 hour bus ride to that shit hole.
Agree - last year the West Suburban Silver had 3 of the final 8 with my Dukes, Glenbard West and Lyons Township,
GW has been good for a long as time. Lyons is weird, they seem to have figured things out.
The West Sub Silver is insane. Except for Proviso...which just always sucks
Is your adopted son Al Bundy?
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Many former athletes have been brought back together behind this season.
Its been a great experience in all 3 major sports.
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