Delmarva Aces hold Good Friday Pitch Velo Workshop in Bishopville
BISHOPVILLE, Md. – On Friday, the Delmarva Aces held their Good Friday Pitch Velo Workshop at their Bishopville facility.
The workshop showed young pitchers how to build arm strength and throw harder with more efficient movements. It’s something that pitching coordinator Dave Whigham says they spend a lot of time working on.
“They spent a lot of time on different types of drill work and different types of instructional pieces on how to make their body moves properly,” said Whigham. “This is a velo camp, but it’s a velo camp geared on how we keep our arms healthy and how we keep arms in a safe across the entire process.”
“There’s a lot of things that some of these kids have never even been taught before,” said Whigham. “Then we spent a bunch of time upfront on just how you can keep your body in unison and how you make your body move together to get your maximum output.”
Along with proper body movement, pitching instructor Chris Bengel said that arm strength and conditioning begins before a pitcher takes the mound.
“We believe it starts way before we pick up a baseball,” said Bengal. ” There’s been work that the boys should be doing each and every day.”
“What these young men learned today is that there is more to throwing, stretching and certain areas that typically don’t get done,” said Bengel. “That all starts early on; before they pick up the baseball.”
There were also a couple of campers that said some valuable information from today’s workshop.
One camper, named Leland, said, “It’s going to help me because I’m still playing little league, and I’m trying to throw faster.”
Another camper, named Justin, said, “I’ve learned a lot. I’ve learned keeping your weight back. You don’t have to throw so hard, and the first pitch you want to throw is strike one.”
Bengel said that the most important feedback they receive are from those who want to return and improve their craft.
“I think the feedback is that the kids keep coming back,” said Bengel. “That’s the ultimate feedback; repeat customers and business or whatever.”
“It’s amazing the faces that keep coming, keep trying to get better” said Bengel. “Then it’s really neat when the new guys come, and then they keep coming back.”
