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December 12, 2025 31 mins
In this episode of Heat Check, Robby unpacks one of the biggest realizations of his playing and coaching career — why chasing perfect mechanics often kills performance, and how flow, freedom, and controlled chaos are what actually unlock elite movement.
 
From backyard wiffle ball battles and mimicking MLB pitchers… to pro ball, injuries, overthinking, and ultimately rediscovering simplicity — this episode is a raw reflection on why athletes perform best when they stop forcing it and start trusting it.
 
If you’re a player, coach, or parent trying to navigate development without burning the joy out of the process — this one hits.

🔥 Quote That Sums It Up
“The throw is the throw. Your body will organize how it organizes — flow is what unlocks it.”

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⏱️ Episode Breakdown & Key Moments
 
00:00 – 00:50 | Pre-Roll + What This Episode Is Really About

Setting expectations, birthday reflections, identity, and teasing the flow vs mechanics conversation.
 
00:50 – 02:50 | New Look, Cold Weather & Life Check-In

Shaving the beard, Connecticut winter, mouth taping, and seasonal shifts.
 
02:50 – 04:55 | Monthly Challenges, Tightness & Body Awareness

Daily challenges, soreness, desk work, and the realization that mobility may matter more than grinding.
 
04:55 – 06:30 | Simplicity vs Overthinking (Content + Performance)

How more gear, more knowledge, and more complexity don’t always equal better results.
 
06:30 – 08:20 | Changing Deliveries & Early Baseball Memories

Loving deviation, changing windups, travel ball memories, and falling in love with Anthony Reyes’ delivery.
 
08:20 – 10:25 | Wiffle Ball, Competition & Athletic Development

Backyard wiffle ball, mimicking teams and players, and why play accelerated arm speed and skill.
 
10:25 – 12:35 | Chaos as a Development Tool

Lawn chair strike zones, throwing runners out, target acquisition, and learning to organize the body under pressure.
 
12:35 – 14:30 | Flow, Deviation & Mental Freedom

Why changing things sparks excitement, frees the mind, and unlocks better movement.
 
14:30 – 16:10 | Mimicking MLB Pitchers & Identity Questions

Dontrelle Willis, Tim Lincecum, Josh Beckett — copying deliveries as exploration, not insecurity.
 
16:10 – 18:40 | Consistency Beneath the Chaos

Despite changing styles, key mechanical positions stayed the same across years and levels.
 
18:40 – 21:15 | When Mechanics Became the Enemy

Hyper-fixation, robotic movement, loss of flow, and how overthinking derailed performance. 

21:15 – 23:45 | Why ‘FLOW’ is the Key

Mechanics matter — but they’re not the main driver. Flow, environment, and mindset are. 

23:45 – 26:15 | Coaching Philosophy Shift

Moving away from “what it should look like” toward creating conditions that let the body self-organize.
 
26:15 – 28:40 | Variability, Arm Slots & Athletic Training

Multiple arm angles, jumping throws, body angles, and teaching adaptability. 

28:40 – 30:45 | Controlled Chaos & Mental Performance

Why chaos simplified the mind, improved command, and unlocked repeatability. 

30:45 – End | Final Reflection + Call to Action

Be a kid. Protect curiosity. Fall in Love 


 
🧠 Core Takeaways ✅

Mechanics matter — but they’re not the main driver
Flow beats fixation Athleticism thrives in controlled chaos
Kids need play, competition, and creativity first
The body organizes itself better when the mind gets out of the way

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, what up dudes? Episode four? Hum Skins. Hey,
So I know I ramble a lot in these podcasts,
especially in the early stages of the podcast, because I
kind of go into the sun a blanket without really
knowing what I'm going to talk about. But then once
I get going, dude, it's cooking. It's cooking. But I
want to let you guys know that I do have
the transcript and the time stamps of particular topics within
this podcast in the show notes, so be sure to

(00:21):
check those out if you need to. It's really close
to my birthday and I'm turning one year older and
I'm going through an identity crisis, and it's fine. We're
all fine. It's on a series heat Check episode four.
We're going to dive into. Actually, there's a lot of
good stuff in here, dude. Once I get going, I'll
talk about flow versus like mechanics and the obsession over

(00:42):
pitching mechanics and the replication of a lot of MLB
pictures when I was growing up, and the kid mechanics
of things. So enjoy. Let's dive in. Welcome heat Check
Humskins episode four. Right, I think we're on episode four.
What are we doing today? What are we talking about?
I have shaved my face, yes, I got I went

(01:02):
with a full makeover. Dudes, it's it's pretty opposite of elite,
to be honest with you. I have a chin now
you can really see my one dimple, left side dimple.
And it's just my girlfriend thinks that I'm a totally
new character, which you know is good. You got to

(01:23):
keep her on her toes. But I originally when I
shaved the beard, Bun, I originally went with a shadow look,
like scruffy beard look, but like clean you know, no neck,
no neard, but with a thick stash circa Chris Pratt
Jurassic World. That was That was a fun look. And

(01:44):
then yesterday I just fully shaved the mustache like I
can't remember the last time I went full razor to
my upper lip. And it just even right now feels weird.
And I'll tell you what a probably my worst look.
So we're talking. If you visualize this, no mustache but
with like a beard, so think Wolverine, but with the chin.

(02:07):
You know what I mean? Abe Lincoln, maybe Aye b
Lincln would be a better one, but less less beard.
And what I noticed was today this is December. Second
that I'm recording this. I need to get out an
episode because I'm gonna have a backlog. I walked outside.
It's about thirty three degrees out here in the beautiful Stamford, Connecticut.

(02:30):
No snow yet though, but my girlfriend did just text
me saying that they have snow in dan Berry, so
maybe we'll get some today. I thought it was cold
without the beard, like the long beard, but it's like
ten degrees colder on my face now without the mustache.
I'll tell you what, though, it sure is a heck

(02:50):
of a lot easier at a mouth tape. Happy December.
I don't know about you, guys, but something that I
really enjoy doing is like hitting a new month and
being like, all right, what's this month's chain challenge? There
are things that I can do every single day, you know,
like almost challenge myself. I'm so sore, I'm like so tight.
I've never felt this way. I think literally I want

(03:11):
to do December just mobility, because I don't like feeling tight.
I've been doing a lot of desk work. I think
it's starting to affect my overall well being. It just
dawned on me, dude, in thirteen days. I'm going to
be thirty four years old. Once you hit like twenty five,

(03:32):
your birthdays fly, dude. I swear it feels like yesterday.
I was just turning thirty three and I was like, ah,
thirty three is up there, but thirty three ain't that bad, dude.
Larry Legend, little Larry Bird, thirty three number, that's kind
of cool. I like thirty three, and now it's like boom,
thirty four one of my shack in La. That's kind
of cool. But dude, then it's like thirty five, one

(03:54):
of my Verlander, freaking Verlander, thirty five for Detroit, Orland.
There's always been number thirty five, right, that's crazy, man.
Then I'm gonna be there. Oh wow, what's wild, dude?
Is like when you age. I don't think you actually
like recognize, like in your twenties right that you're like aging.

(04:15):
It's just like a birthday. I don't know. Does that
sound weird? I don't know. It's like boom, and then
you hit. I swear once I hit thirty one, not
even thirty, like thirty one, I was like, oh my gosh,
I'm in my thirties. That's just a different vibe. Anyways, Hey,
welcome to the heat Check. We're here Heat Check episode four.
I think we're on episode four. I am sitting in

(04:36):
my sauna blanket in the living room of my apartment
talking into a microphone that has a brand new pre
amp pluggin thing, which Chad Gpt told me to get
to naturally boost my DBS, because I guess my DB's
needed boosting. But how does it sound? You know? The

(04:59):
more I I learn about certain content equipment, right, like cameras, audios,
mic computers, software, like all of it, dude, all of it.
The more that I learn, like, the worse it gets.
And I miss I miss the simplicity approach, dude. And

(05:20):
this goes hand in hand with like where my content
journey has come from, and like how it's kind of
gotten a little bit more difficult over time because it's
like you'd think the more that you learned, the better
you would get, you know, maybe the better your product
would get. And I just feel like, gosh, for me,
it's just I need simplicity, guys. I think it's because

(05:46):
my brain recognizes that if I do the same thing
using the same equipment or doing it the same approach,
like even if I record a breakdown, if I do
it the same over and over again, like I crave deviation, dude,
even cooking, like cooking a burger, I just crave deviation.

(06:06):
I have to freaking change it up, like I have
to experiment with a new thing, like even my freaking mechanics.
That's a funny story. I'll let you guys in on.
I remember my senior year there was a specific scout
that told me before my senior season started, how important
it is to show that like you're consistent within your delivery,
like you're not just changing all the time. And I

(06:28):
remember thinking, like, oh no, because something about me as
a kid, I'll shoot. Even to this day, I loved
like changing my wind up. I love changing my delivery.
I swear I could watch somebody on TV and just
be like, next day, I'm that person. I'll never forget.
I played fallball, and this was back when I was

(06:50):
young and I was playing with my brother, he was
three years older than my dad was coaching. We'd go
travel ball weekend tournaments right a lot of times in Sacramento, California. Gosh,
those were good times. Richards Avenue freaking staying at the
hawthorn sweets. Baby, Come on, it's another side tangent. When
I think of just good vibes, good vibration energy of

(07:10):
my memories in baseball, I think of those travele ball
days when I was playing with my brother and I
was young, and I was ignorant, and I just was
like no expectations as the youngest on the team, had
no like real but then you know I performed. It'd
be sick, sick. Anyways, I'll never forget watching the two
thousand and six World Series. Man, you guys might have

(07:35):
to fact check me on this one Cardinals Tigers Game
one two rookies Anthony ray is justin Berlander watching Anthony
Ray as dude who remembers Anthony rayes for the Cardinals
that rookie year man flat bill over the head wind up.
And I watched them and I fell in love with
that wind up dude, And I like, I remember asking

(07:57):
my dad like, hey, be cause I was pitching the
next morning. I was like, hey, do you mind? Like
is it okay if I use his wind up? But
you know, I've went out and shoved dude. And what's
crazy is the more that I think about it, Like
the more. I'm like, man, I wonder, like I wonder
what would have just happened if I would have just
approached my professional career like like a kid, you know,

(08:20):
like just going in the back, dude, Because this is
the thing. When I was growing up, played a lot
of whiffleball, and I still to this day, we'll say
that rhymed whiffleball was one of the reasons why I
think I threw hard before anyone else did, like at
my age, and granted, like I was always bigger than everyone,

(08:40):
but I kid you not, dude. We would play whiffleball
and we would be probably forty feet away and we
would be chucking that thing. Shout out Danny Binn's dude, Danny,
I don't know if you listen to my pod, I
might have to send you this, dude, But I don't
know if I've ever told you that those with football

(09:00):
matchups with you, dude, I think was a huge reason
why my arm went through space faster, because you remember
those times, man, we would like, what was it? I
think we would we would pick a team, right, we
would be in the backyard. We'd pick a team, and
then we'd have to replicate the picture of that team
and then replicate every hitter like pretty much one through

(09:21):
nine and their batting stance and what side of the
plate they batted on. So I mean, you talk about
just having fun and developing superior freaking baseball skills and athleticism. Dude,
holy smokes. That's why I tell parents, like all the
time these days, it's like such a such a fine
line of wanting to develop their kids using like all

(09:44):
the new age technology and the training advancements and you know,
all these things, and it's like, dude, in reality, if
the kid just loves to freaking compete, just grab his
buddies and go compete. That was what we did back
in the day, you know. I mean, I think it
would have been sick thinking about how much like different
technology there is now at the disposable, the disposal of

(10:07):
freaking development. That's that's cool to think about. I think
that does spark a little joy in the process. But man,
going out and playing whiffleball in the backyard and we
would chuck that thing too. There was never really any
thought about how like, oh, we shouldn't throw as hard
as we can, you know. I was like, nah, dude,
we would put up a lawn chair, right, put up
a lawn chair behind the hitter, and if it hit

(10:29):
any part of that lawn chair, and there was a
little discretion, it couldn't like bounce and hit the leg.
It couldn't hit the very bottom of the leg. We
know that that's not a heha. But if it hit
that lawn chair, dude back the back side of that lawnchair,
it's a freaking strike and small distance. My backyard wasn't
that big. But what was cool was we had a
gate right behind the pitcher, and that gate was the

(10:51):
gate to the sideyard, so it was like, if you
hit it over the gate, it's a dinger. Right. Another
underrated piece to to how we would play whiffle ball
back then is if the runner who hit the ball
wasn't on a base, we could throw the ball at
him and like, it's a whiffle ball, right, Like, it's
not gonna hurt that bad unless you hit him in

(11:12):
the face. And sometimes you know, things happen your kids.
You're gonna get hurt, You're gonna get bruised up, right,
You're gonna you know, you don't want to get hurt,
But that's that's the reality of life. Right, I'm not
gonna well, I'm not gonna sit here, but I'm gonna
lay here in the sauna blanket. I'm not gonna say
like you guys should for sure throw whiffle balls at
each other now. But it was like usually you know,
if you threw it and the runner was like trying

(11:35):
to get to the base but moving right. So you're
throwing time sensitive task completion optimal throwing mechanics. It just
teaches your body how to find leverage in a limited
amount of time while also ridding your mind of thought
because it's just like you knew that for the guy
to get out, you had to plunk him before he

(11:56):
got to the base. And that's I mean, think about
the development tool there right, the target acquisition, the organization
of your body. Like that's beautiful. And man, I'll tell
you what if I had a kid right now and
he was eight years old and the job or the

(12:20):
mission was to make a first round pitcher, I'd for
sure put that kid in gymnastics and have him play
competitive dodgeball. I think that's like, I think that's flow,
that's peak superior athleticism. And like I said, with with

(12:42):
with a ball, like target acquisition, right, Like, that's so good,
that's so good. Coordination, spatial awareness. Oh, it's beautiful, it's beautiful.
So yeah, I think about that a lot. How that
senior year, I remember being so concerned about like, oh,
don't change my delivery, don't change my wind up. And

(13:06):
I actually held strong for probably my first like six
seven starts, and then of course I took my first
L of the year in a two to one game,
and I immediately changed my wind up. I don't know
what that is. It's it probably is something. It's probably
called something where like you you just have to change

(13:27):
something up to find a little bit of like like
to spark a little something, right. I don't even know
what the word is, but it would it would spark
a little bit of excitement for me even to this day,
like if I change something up, like if I go
to do a breakdown video today, right, and I do
it a different way and I use maybe like a
different software or I use like a different camera. And

(13:49):
over Black Friday, I bought like different you know, content equipments.
And that's always something that I'll do when I'm kind
of getting a little bit burnt out because I'm like
like look forward to using the new stuff, you know.
So it's total like manipulation. But I don't know what
that is. I don't know what that's called very very much,
so like that within my pitching delivery. And like I

(14:13):
was saying a little bit earlier, was I'd be very
curious to know. Like I wonder if I could have
just taken that approach, right, that's simplistic, Like it doesn't
really matter what my delivery is, like you know what
I mean, Like I can do any delivery. We always
talk about the importance of like identifying what you need
to do in your delivery and all these things, But

(14:34):
what if that doesn't even matter? Right? Like what if
the only thing that matters was putting your brain into
the best kind of environment that it needs to be
in flow? And I always love the idea of like
mimicking deliveries. Gosh. I mean, my favorite pick back in

(14:57):
the Whiffleball days in the Backyard was two thousand three
Florida Marlins. Shout out to Dontrelle Willis the D train
That was my favorite wind up. I'll never forget freaking
fifteen year old All Stars going to a D trained
leg lift with iblack on because it was a championship

(15:18):
game doubleheader. I was playing. I was catching the first game,
second game, I was pitching. Still had my EyeBlack on,
felt way doper than everyone in the world, but also
rocking the d trained leg lift, and then I switched
to like a Dan Harron freaking leglift. Pause. Go. I've
had so many replicated deliveries, dude. I did a Tim
Lincecum delivery. Dontrell Willis was a big one I did.

(15:43):
Josh Beckett was a popular one. Yeah, man, there's a
freaking lot. I loved replicating deliveries. What is that? Is
that an insecurity? The more I talk about it, the
more I'm like, ooh, is that like that's probably like
a bad thing. That's probably like a kind of me
not trusting myself, not trusting my own organization of my body,

(16:07):
and just wanting to go with someone else. I'm sure
there's a lot of people like that. I've talked to
a lot of hitters throughout my career that are very
similar to that, where they need to kind of change
something up to feel a little bit more freed up.
So I'm sure it's normal. I'm sure it's normal for
a lot of athletes. You know. I was never like
that with my shot in basketball. I was like that

(16:27):
with my free throw routine though free throw routine was
a very customizable thing. But then I would I don't know,
because then it was like junior senior year. It was
the same thing, like repetitive over and over again. Yeah,
I wonder what that would be like, dude, if I
just showed up, you know, eighteen years old to a
major league organization playing minor league baseball, but just every

(16:49):
day it was like a different wind up, different delivery.
Because it's like I remember too looking back, I might
need to do something where I film a breakdown, but
I do like all of my mechanics over the years,
because there's so many videos that I have of just
me being so different. But then you can see points
in the delivery itself, like if you looked at the

(17:11):
freeze frame at full hand separation, full glove side extension,
full lead leg extension, like that freeze frame. Like I've
been very consistent since I was probably like fifteen sixteen
years old, like long extended front side hands usually break
down by the waistline. Before my elbow surgery in twenty sixteen,

(17:34):
my hand would break long down to my back knee,
and then the surgery left up my elbow a little bit,
so I couldn't bend it or wait, sorry, I couldn't
extend it, so I kept it bent, kept it inflection
upon hand separation. But it was kind of the same
idea with the glove side being long, so like there
was there was key pieces to the delivery that was consistent, right,

(17:57):
like kind of the same. I'll never forget when I
got released by Pittsburgh my last outing, I took a
there was a picture that someone took of me, and
it was almost the identical, like kind of positioning alignment.
So this was twenty fourteen in comparison to twenty ten,
so it wasn't like too many years apart. But it's
like there I am in Pittsburgh thinking like, oh, I'm

(18:18):
changing so many things, you know. I'm like so in
my head about my delivery and all these different things
that I'm trying to actively change and these little areas
that I'm trying to look a little bit different in
freeze frames, right, and then it's like boom, I put
a side by side together of like my last high
school outing and my last outing as a pirate and
it was like at handbreak just kind of the same.

(18:40):
So I the reason why I entertain those thoughts now
is because I think the body will do whatever it
does like at the end of the throw, right, like
it's going to be the same. It's not going to
be so different, as much as our brain wants wants

(19:00):
us to think that it's going to be so different,
Like it's not right. The throw itself is so personalized,
and it takes a ton of fricking repetitions to instill
different like motor patterns at certain stages, Like I do
believe there's stages of the delivery that you can really
manipulate and make it look different. But I think the

(19:20):
throw is the throw right, like your style of throw now,
unless you're changing, if you're changing your slot in which
you release the ball in, that's a different thing. But
you'll find that the body still organizes very similar. And
I would be, yeah, I'd be very interested to think
about that thought of what if I did just not

(19:43):
really care and I just did what my brain kind
of wanted to do and just throw however I wanted
to throw, like it didn't matter, man, And that's the
theme of I think my I want to say, like
my entire career, especially early on, especially early on in
my career, all the way up until twenty fifteen, So

(20:04):
twenty ten to twenty fifteen, those years, I like got
it in my head, and I know why I got
it in my head, but I got it in my
head about like the mechanics, right, pitching mechanics, Like that
was it, Like that was the one thing that was
going to allow you to command the ball better. It
was going to allow you to throw the ball harder,

(20:26):
it was going to allow you to have better off
speed pitches, be more deceptive, get more outs, right, and
not saying that it's not like we all know that
it is, but it's not the main driver, dude, Like
there's way more pieces to the toolbox than just pitching mechanics.
Like I was so fixated on that just being the answer,

(20:48):
that being the one thing that I needed to do,
and it was the reason was that freaking first extended
spring training. Again, preface this entire thing by saying, like,
I'm not pushing blame. I'm not I'm like taking full ownership.
But at the same time, who cares, right, Like I
don't care how you take me. So that's the whole
idea of the season of life. I am in and
not caring about anyone's opinions. I'm gonna say what I

(21:10):
want to say. If you want to take it one way,
go forward, dude. But you know who knows. I know
my intentions. God knows my intentions. We let it ride. Cool, good,
I was very well said, Rob, thank you. So yeah,
I was just super freaking hyper fixated on mechanics. And obviously,
when you're hyper fixated on mechanics mentally, you're gonna be

(21:31):
finding yourself not in flow, and flow is the freaking
name of the game, dude. And I think I just
had so many fricking mental consciousness, like activated mental reps,
that I just became a freaking robot. Kind of lost
my athleticism. Obviously, there was ways that I was going

(21:51):
about my throwing right. The way that I was throwing
every day was not helping my cause. But man, if
there's one encouragement I could give young guys out there
or parents of youth throwers, like, yes, dude, mechanics will
allow you to do everything I just mentioned, but it's

(22:11):
not the main driver, like it really, I really believe
that mechanics shouldn't be like a sole focus until the
brain is fully developed, until there's a ton of maturity
levels in the individual, because it is so hard to
regulate that mental mechanical thought process when you're a young kid.

(22:33):
I know, I couldn't do it, and I've met a
lot of kids that couldn't do it, and I've met
very rare kids that could do it. Usually the ones
usually the kids that I and I say kids, but
like obviously like eighteen or older, the ones that were
eighteen to twenty three, twenty four years old, so young
dudes that I would play with over the years in
different organizations. The ones that would have success at that

(22:55):
age were the ones that, like they didn't nothing really
was about their care It was just like, this is
this is my mechanics, right like when I go to
throw this object, this is how my body organizes. And
it wasn't a thought and like it was literally in
twenty fifteen, probably my best overall season in terms of
just stuff and success performance wise, that was like the

(23:19):
the light bulb moment was like, oh my gosh, it's
it's not a conscious act to develop these mechanics. It's
like I just gotta I just got to train, like
I got to do the right things, and I gotta prep,
you know, with the way that I throw every day
to make my body move in a certain way that

(23:41):
accomplishes the specific task that I needed to accomplish, which
at that time was throw as hard as I could.
And that mindset alone, dude, crazy, how how literally that
just soul mental objective was. Man, Once I locked that in, dude,
it was like boom and then frick man, there's you know,
in just my just to let me vent here my

(24:02):
career like that. Then that frickin' injury happened, bone spurs
in my elbow, and it was, you know, obviously just
because it was like the hardest I was throwing my arm,
body whatever you want to say, like maybe wasn't used
to it, and bone chips, bone spurs not even a
big deal. Microscopic surgery should have been a bop oop
two months. We'll see you back there now. That couldn't happen.

(24:26):
That would be the path of least resistance. And this
kid doesn't choose that one. My body doesn't want that path.
Give me more resistance, you know, I'll do another segment
on that if there's any interest in people wanted to
hear a little bit more about my journey. I think
I've talked about it quite a bit, but who knows.
I probably should do it more anyways. Yeah, the whole

(24:46):
mechanics thing, you know, the whole thinking about it, I
just think, you know, gosh, I just I blew it
out of proportion in my mind, and I do find
its value. I do find it's in importance. And it's funny,
right because like all my remote coaching is essentially like
mechanical orientated. But you'll see that I am getting less

(25:08):
I'm getting more and more away from like the mental
articulation and the explanation of how certain components of the
body work in relation to the task of throwing hard
and consistency and repeatability and all those things. I'm getting
less and less away from, like, hey, this is what
it should look like, right, And I'm just getting more

(25:28):
fixated on, like, hey, I think if you do X,
Y and Z, your body will start responding by organizing
this way. And that's where I'm having a little bit
more success within my coaching career, like my coaching endeavors
because I'll be honest, with you, dude. Like when I
first started this thing, like you know, the coaching back
in what twenty nineteen, I think twenty nineteen is when

(25:50):
I was like, all right, I'm injured, Like let's ride,
I'm dive into coaching. I literally started approaching it the
way that I would approach like my career. And it
took me until my twenty twenty two season where I
got put through the ringer again with like the mental
mechanical ideas and thoughts, and I was like, oh, and

(26:12):
then I was like that that was the big driver
and why I did the three slots from twenty twenty
three in winter ball because I was like, I need
to do this, I need to see this in professional setting,
and I'm glad, you know, like, yeah, I can sit
here and talk about regrets in terms of my career,
which I still don't think is over. I could, but

(26:33):
at the same time I could be very like proud
that I did that three slot thing in games in
professional settings because it did it really solidified the idea
of like, mechanics, dude, mechanics are as big of a
deal as you mentally make it, right, Like that's the
reality of it, dude. I literally played catch from like

(26:54):
probably five different slots. I played catch like a shortstop
or a catcher majority of the times, and then I
would go out to the mound and I would just
be like, all right, I'm gonna throw from the slot
like leg lifts, here we go. And to be honest
with you, are the best pitches that I probably executed
were like the pitches where I didn't really know what
slot I was gonna throw from until I lifted my
leg and then it was like a reactionary freaking go go,

(27:16):
and that just flowed me up. Now, I'm not gonna
sit here or lay here in mycel on a blanket
and say that everyone should throw from freaking multiple slots.
I do believe in training that way though. I do.
I mean, I'm the biggest, probably biggest advocate for deviation variability,
not just like arm angles, but like body angles, like
shoulder angles, freaking feet angles, uphill downhill, exaggerated slope, flat ground,

(27:42):
exaggerated uphill, one foot jumping, especially jumping. I love jumping throws.
But yeah, you teach your body different ways to organize,
and I really do believe that when you have your body,
like when your body's equipped on how to organize in
so many different ways to throw. It just becomes so

(28:02):
much more clear on how to do it, like how
to throw it and what that did, at least for me,
and what I think it does for a lot of
people is it really allows them to get out of
their head. And I don't know if that's something that
the body brain have to sync up there, but it
really really helps. So yeah, I mean, I'm glad I

(28:24):
got to experience that in a professional setting because it
really really solidified, like oh, like it just needs to
be athletic, Like that's what mechanics are. Like. Even the
word mechanics, right, the word pitching mechanics just sounds like robotic.
It sounds very controlled. And I love the phrase controlled

(28:48):
chaos because there was times like all right, So for example,
I'll say this to a lot of my clients too
this day, Like when I was a kid and I
was doing the d trained high leg kick, like I
was so out of control. But it was the out
of controllness that chaos that freed my mind up, which

(29:10):
then allowed me to flow, which allowed me to like
repeat this chaotic delivery, and it allowed me to almost
simplify everything in my mind, which you would think is
the opposite of what would happen, you know. It was
almost like the more movement that I had in my delivery,
the more chaos that I invoked in my delivery pre pitch, like,

(29:32):
the better I would be mentally. So yeah, I mean,
we talk about command issues like I mean, from my experience,
majority of the command issues are just mental. Now. I
believe that it's not always the case. It really depends
on the individual. But for me specifically, it was me

(29:52):
being in active thought mode instead of just like my
brain is in the back seat and my body is
just moving. That's why I think I was very successful
growing up, because like I wasn't my mind wasn't going.
It was just like who do I want to mimic today?
Who do I want to throw like today? And then
all my thoughts fixated on like ooh, what does he

(30:13):
look like again? You know, and then I kind of
play around with this. It's really interesting, even just laying
here talking about it, it's like really interesting, and it's
kind of firing me up to maybe want to do
a little content surrounding different points of my career because
I should have video of a lot of those ones. Yeah,
so I don't know if that if that? Hell man,
you guys got an idea for the title of this episode,

(30:34):
as I am clueless on what I want to title this.
I don't even know what I talked about kind of
went on all different tangents. So moral of the story
be a freaking kid as long as you can man
do kid like things right and then have that child
like wonder in your freaking performance, right man. Yeah? Yeah,

(30:57):
all right, guys, I'm sweaty, so I'm going to cut
you off here, and as always, you can reach out
if there's something specific that you would love for me
to kind of talk about and dive into, you know,
reach out the Roby Roshow dot Com, slash ask ask
that's my question platform, and then if you want just say, like,

(31:19):
I give you permission to talk about this, because sometimes
people reach out ask a question and I do content
on it and it's like, oh, did they care that
I did that? So let me know if you would
want me to do that. All right, cold shower time boys, humskins.
Much love guys, as always, God blessed, and we'll see
you next time on the heat check, honey. Eh
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