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Good exercise for back delt, i like to turn more (that the "rope" is going alomst from behind you) so you use it in more stretched moment. Try it, and with pump it would be 2x bigger, and after your first training like that it would be 1.5 bigger(juat after first)(i was doing 2sets 1st close to failure and second to failure)
The research indicating that BFC should be more spring-like and less spongy is interesting, as it has occurred to me that perhaps bowlers should wear harder soled shoes - not unlike sprint spikes - as the absorption of force by a spongy trainer-like sole would damper the spring action. Any thoughts?
It's a really interesting point Andrew and one I thought about a while ago. I guess you have to understand they are also fielding all day too. How would the hard sole effect them over multiple days of cricket. Would you have the same shoe for the left and right side?
Great video, however can you please clarify these points? For maximum pace should bowlers who have hyperextension in their bowling arm be front on bowlers? For maximum pace should bowlers who don't have hyperextension in their bowling arm be side on bowlers whith Bent back leg? Should side on bowlers stumble there front leg into a front leg brace? Or should they extend the leg into a front on brace? Should front on bowlers stumble there front leg into a front leg brace? Or should they extend the leg into a front on brace? The braced front leg exercises did not play properly on the video can you please show these exercises in a video?
Hip/knee dominance is a weight lifting term firstly (which is where this has been borrowed from) and secondly can also be altered or changed. The 'spring' stiffness applies to mainly plyometrics/sprinting (which is where this has been borrowed from) rather than 'pushing' the base of the action into position - it should 'drop' (stumble reflex) - so is completely the wrong feeling. With final regard to back foot contact 'time', Dale Steyn & Shoaib were bowling similar speeds (both sideways bowlers) but Shoaib spent twice as long on back foot contact into ball release than Dale. Some of this presentation has merit and is accurate, but I feel large parts of it are simply repeating what others have copied & pasted from other sports - often without any validation. A few of us have been coaching quicks for more than 25 years and we see the confusing nature of much of the theories on the internet based on 'pseudo science, which has been created by some coaches to make them sound 'clever'. I am not saying this is the intention here, far from it. I would just be ultra cautious where each source is coming from and whether those sources have actually 'produced' any fast bowlers at all.
@Marcus Campopiano appreciate everything you have said. I am always cautious when it comes to lifting things from other sports as has happened with 'certain' coaches. Fast Bowling is not like any other sport, although javelin is possibly our closest cousin. I am also aware of that video from luffs you linked in. Again, I am cautious as this simply measures what current bowlers do and NOT what they SHOULD do. If we have 'perfect' modelling we can show whether those bowlers are efficient & effective. Saying quicker bowlers 'tend to run in faster' isn't evidence that is the right way to generate pace. In fact, the fastest possibly of all, Jeff Thomson, used to jog in because he generated his speed from hip rotation and range of movement. Plus of course, increasing speed in one area impacts on the coordination & timing in other areas. So faster approach can actually lead to SLOWER ball velocities and vice versa. I feel cricket has an entire generational journey still to make. In the last 25 years of working with this stuff I still feel we are in the dark ages when it comes to understanding of how to create speed safely and correctly. But at least people have finally started to talk about increasing speed after a lifetime of saying it isn't coachable...
