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Velocity Rx Podcast
Mechanics Matter: How Movement Training Transformed a High School Pitcher
What happens when proper mechanics meet natural talent? Tyler Ruhl, a junior baseball standout from Virginia, joins Dr. Kevin McGovern to share his remarkable transformation story after implementing the VelocityRx training methodology.
Tyler recently completed a jaw-dropping 41 scoreless inning streak in high school competition while dramatically improving his arm health, recovery time, and overall performance. He takes us through his journey from being primarily a shortstop who occasionally pitched at 82 mph to becoming a versatile threat on the mound with significantly improved velocity, mechanics, and a strikeout count that has already surpassed his previous season's total.
The conversation offers fascinating insights into how movement patterns translate to game-changing results. Tyler describes his initial skepticism about the training approach, which evolved into complete buy-in as he experienced the benefits firsthand. Most impressive is his recent revelation that after throwing 70 pitches in a game, he felt capable of throwing 70 more the very next day – a level of recovery he'd never previously experienced.
Beyond pitching improvements, Tyler reveals how the training has elevated his performance across multiple positions, boosting his infield throwing velocity from 85 to 89 mph and his catching velocity from 79 to 84 mph in just months. For parents and coaches of young athletes, this episode provides compelling evidence that focusing on proper mechanics and movement patterns can simultaneously improve performance, prevent injury, and extend playing careers.
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Hey everybody. This is Dr Kevin McGovern and it's another VelocityRx podcast. Today I've got a very special guest. I've got one of my top, most improved students with me. He is a junior from the great state of Virginia and unfortunately this week he just lost his 41 scoreless inning streak, which, in high school baseball, is like obscene. I haven't heard anything of that kind in a long, long time. His name is Tyler rule and Tyler, thank you for coming on with me today. I appreciate it. Thanks for having me. So tell everyone a little bit about you. You're a junior. You know kind of you. You you play pretty much everywhere You're. You're a catcher, you're a middle infielder and and a pitcher.
Speaker 2:So kind of give us your journey over the last two years. Yeah, so I'm in out of Virginia, I'm a junior, like you said, and I've really traditionally been a been a shortstop coming up. But then just through the years I've always pitched. I've always been, uh, my coaches have always just had a pinpoint on versatility, um so shortstop outfield catching, uh, I could play first if I really had to, um, and then pitching, obviously, um so innings wise, you know, uh, freshman year didn't, didn't pitch much. Uh, I was around top velo is like 82 miles per hour uh, but wouldn't, wouldn't get that many innings. And then last year was kind of the big jump for me. Um, you know, I hit 87 early in the year and kind of lost my mechanical feel, if you will, but had a good year on the mound last year and at the plate and everywhere else.
Speaker 1:Uh, so that how many, how many strikeouts did you have last year?
Speaker 2:I had 70, 70 and how?
Speaker 1:many, how many did you have with a bunch of games still left? 78, okay, so well surpassed last year. Um, but tell me about so kind of rewinding. You and I started working together. Your dad contacted me in the late fall and we started working together and it seemed like you really clicked it, really like we did the game test and then, then whatever we were doing really clicked with you, like you just duplicated things immediately. So talk about that. What was that process like?
Speaker 2:For sure. Yeah, when, when I first got the whole, the whole game test introduced to me, I my initial thoughts on it were I didn't see how the pieces lined up. You know, obviously, all of it being new, I kind of didn't know what to expect out of that first part. And then, you know, I started doing the movements. You had me go through all those. You know it was. It took a couple months to get through movements and getting the patterns down and, uh, you know, by the end of it all, you know we did all the movement work and it all lined up in the end, from the crane position to the double squat, it all made sense. It's translating, it's keeping my arm healthier. I feel better than I really ever have.
Speaker 1:That's great. For me, that's the most important goal To me. Velocity is going to tick up as you get older. Great, and that, you know, that's the. For me, that's the most important goal you know. To me, velocity is gonna tick up as you get older. I mean, obviously we've had a, we've had a pretty significant tick up in velocity. But before we went on the air, you mentioned something about your arm health. You mentioned because you actually texted me that last week that you pitched I forget how many pitches. Why don't you say and then you get up and the next day your arm was unbelievable. Yeah, so why don't you cause? That's the most important for me that you can choose when to stop pitching rather than it being chosen for you. So tell me about that.
Speaker 2:For sure. Yeah, uh, about a week ago, through through five innings scoreless, uh was around 70 pitches. And then you know, know, the next day I was going out to throw and you know, didn't really know what to expect at first and uh went out there and threw, uh and felt like I could have thrown 70 more pitches easily. So uh, arm was still humming the next day, so and that's never that's new right.
Speaker 1:That's never happened. That's new right. That's never happened before.
Speaker 2:Uh, the soreness. Soreness is a little there still, but nothing, uh nothing, no pain whatsoever. So, um, and honestly, I'm getting towards the point where there's no soreness.
Speaker 1:So that's great. And are you doing the daily exercises, which I know are kind of sometimes simple and boring, but you seem to be doing them constantly. And what do you? What is the result of that, Do you think?
Speaker 2:Um, just just ingraining the habits of the mechanics.
Speaker 1:Uh so the big one I do the most is the three tap drill yeah, that's one of my favorite in between yep, that's one of my, that's one of my favorite drills continually uh yeah, go ahead, sorry all right, I think I'm losing.
Speaker 2:Uh, there we go. Um, yeah, that drill has been the biggest one for me, I think, uh, and obviously still still working on it uh, just ingraining, ingraining the, uh, the feel of that, uh to where I can just execute it once I get on the mound in game now, when you're on the mound, how does your confidence, you know, how is your confidence about throwing pitches for strikes?
Speaker 1:where are we with with? I mean, obviously you've had a tremendous amount of strikeouts, a scoreless inning streak, which is incredible.
Speaker 2:Talk to me about that yeah, so my, my strike percentage pretty much the whole year has been uh anywhere from 65 percent strikes. I think I've gotten up to uh 78 percent strikes, wow, which is anywhere above 60s. Uh, pretty solid um very much so I've dipped below that in any outing. So, yeah, I think the consistency of the mechanics is helping me. Just I mean to start strikes, which is the most important thing about pitching. It's hard to get outs and strike, repeat every single pitch and just throw strikes.
Speaker 1:Now I often tell parents and student-athletes that the stuff that we will do will help you be a better. You know, the exercises we do, the squats, the scapular depression, all the crane work, the balance work will help you be a better athlete. So you are playing multi positions. Do you think what the work that we have done has helped you as a catcher, as a middle infielder? Talk about that.
Speaker 2:No doubt Um. So last fall, before I started working with you, uh, we had middle infield velos, uh, throws, and I got my top was 85, um. So then you know, worked with you through the fall, through the winter, and then I went to another event where I got clocked in um infield velo and it was 89. Wow, I mean, that's four miles per hour in a couple months right there, which is that's a lot. And then catching, I think, was I think I might've been around 79, 78, and then went to another event and got it clocked, uh, and I was 84.
Speaker 1:So Wow, that's a significant jump in velocity.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and a lot of throwing.
Speaker 1:So Right, that's, that's, uh, that's great man, I'm, I'm, I'm really proud of you and I'm proud of those results. So if you were talking to another high school kid or parent who was like I don't know, should I go with this, what would you say to them?
Speaker 2:that uh, well, you, first of all, you learn a lot, um, I think I've learned more you know from from this about you know, uh, just the way good movements, uh, you know the way to move, pretty much um, that. And I mean, you know, in a time where there's full of arm injuries and you know kids not being able to throw strikes and that's your two main focuses. So, uh, I I just encourage people to uh to check you out because I mean, yeah, throwing strikes and staying healthy is the most important thing. It doesn't do you any good to throw hard and not throw strikes, or throw hard and not be on the field. So, uh, yeah, that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 1:Awesome. So I always ask this question on a on a, if you had to do this program again on a scale of one to 10, 10 would be automatically do it again. What would you rate this?
Speaker 2:And be honest, I'm not you know probably about close to a 10.
Speaker 1:Wow, all right, I like that.
Speaker 2:Uh, there's not. Hasn't been anything where I say, oh, I don't like that, or everything? Hasn't been anything where I say, oh, I don't like that, or everything? Everything, even though it seems tedious at times, maybe, or or whatnot at all, ends up lining up and making sense to, and then the results show so.
Speaker 1:I love it. So where, what's in the future for? So you said you're going to play and finish out the high school season. You guys are on the cuffs of making the playoffs and then, hopefully, the state tournament, and then where are you gonna? What happens to you in the summer and showcases coming up, where are people gonna see tyler rule?
Speaker 2:um, so yeah, I'll be.
Speaker 1:I'll be playing for a uh, a travel ball squad uh, out of richmond virginia okay so I mean, I'll be I'll be what's the name of that organization, in case people want to the richmond braves richmond braves, okay, great um, I mean, on that team I'll be playing kind of it'll be the same thing as high school ball.
Speaker 2:It'll be a lot of pitching, a lot of catching and a lot, a lot of outfield. So it's the middle infield mixed in.
Speaker 1:So um fantastic yeah, that, that's.
Speaker 2:That's where I'll be the most summer got. I got six tournaments. I think seven tournaments Great. We go down to Alabama, we go up to Cincinnati Nice.
Speaker 1:Now one of the other important things how?
Speaker 2:are your grades?
Speaker 1:What are your grades like?
Speaker 2:I'm mostly an AB student Awesome, okay, good, um, I'm mostly an ab, an ab student awesome, okay, you know, uh, definitely not uh the highest academic uh person, but uh, ab works. Yeah, ab a's and b's work for sure, so yeah that's fantastic.
Speaker 1:Well, ty, I really appreciate you coming on and doing this, and I wish you all the continued success in the world and one day choosing to stop playing and hopefully that's at 45 years old and not at 21 years old. So thank you very much for coming on.
Speaker 2:Right. Yes, sir, thanks for having me.
