How This Expert Helped MLB Pitchers Become the Best (Nolan Ryan, Randy Johnson) | GQ Sports
Vložit
- čas přidán 29. 07. 2020
- Tom House never consider himself to be on the same level as the great baseball pitchers like Randy Johnson, who have "unconscious competence" (the ability to automatically perform their skills without thought). Instead, he had to figure out ways to elevate his game using superior pitching mechanics. Join him as he breaks down how he took legendary pitchers like Nolan Ryan and Randy Johnson to the next level.
Check out Tom's website here: www.nationalpitching.com
With GQ Sports, the real action is off the field. Get an all-access pass to the world's coolest, most stylish athletes with original series like My Essentials, Actually Me, My First Million, Game Points & More. Watch a GQ editor try his hand at pro sports in Above Average Joe. And get an all-access look into how athletes shop, train, travel, and showcase their love of style, menswear, and sneakers. - Sport
If Nolan Ryan did all that with old school technology, imagine if he was signed today he'd be unstoppable. This talks so friendly and humble like you'd want to sit down and have a beer with him just to hear him talk about baseball.
Agreed
Nolan also had his career extended in part due to steroids.
Really hard to say if we would improve him or break him. Why is everyone throwing less and getting injured more?
@@Zraknul cause were throwing 40percent sliders
they arent@@Zraknul
idk why but in the intro where he nonchalantly says ' yea i got fired in fall' somehow made me laugh
I got a chuckle too.
But man... Just shows how good he is at training/teaching.
I couldn't tell if he was joking or being serious... or both.
Whoa spoilers buddy
@@BeastnHarlotDFO bruh its been 8 months
@Leonel Toby yea nobody cares
Known this guy for 6 years, dude is amazing
No, sorry he does football, baseball, and golf.
This guy is not just an advisor for Nolan Ryan and Randy Johnson, but also to Tom Brady. Living legend
really???
@@MrBmick79 yep there's another GQ video with Tom House here explaining how he taught Tom Brady and made him a great player, and also one of the best longevity-wise. Search for it. Or it might be in the recommended videos under this one.
Could listen to this guy talk all day
Honestly, he's a really interesting guy with a lot of stories to tell
15-20 players on a college team making the big leagues is insane!! Wow.
The PAC 10 back then was steady stacked, especially the Cali schools
@@cambrown5777
& ASU
You were one of the reasons I got a scholarship and a degree in college. Thank you 🙏
Where did you play baseball in college ?
I knew Nolan helped Randy with his delivery but I had no clue who Nolan's coach was and I literally stumbled onto this video. Pretty neat! Go M's!
I believe Nolan credited Tom personally in his HoF induction speech
It was something small like landing on the toes instead of the heel for placement accuracy. Had a coach tell me this back in the late 80’s, it takes some getting used to if you’ve always landed on your heel but worth the try
Met him at a convention in Omaha back in 2007, during the CWS. SUPER nice guy.
I grew up with this guys pitching bible when i was a little kid in the 90s.
I used his books as a bible when I coached in the 90's ... invaluable
@@steveheggem5822 I was not even aware of his books in the 90s.
@@pequodexpress " The Pitching Edge" by Tom House 1994
@@steveheggem5822 Nineteen ninety-four was a year after I had hung up the cleats and pulled out the tennis rackets. My nine-year-old son is now showing interest in baseball, so now we're geared up again with gloves, bats, and balls, and the itch is back.
@@pequodexpress I played through my mid- twenties and was lucky enough to have two sons of my own that played this great sport. All the best to you and your son.
Great video, Tom House is one of the most important minds in baseball. Nolan Ryan was always fun to watch, especially as he got older and now we know one of the reasons why he got better as he aged.
Hey GQ Sports get Ichiro for this series.
He was my pitching coach... such a great guy.
Wow, it's great to hear the behind the scenes stories!
I grew up in North Texas, and my pony league baseball coach had us watching Tom House videos. It helped me with my throwing mechanics tremendously in baseball and football.
Tom House is the man! ‘Cream of the crop rises to the top... but some times lil turds do too’ when describing his rise to the show love the guy
The man that broke the old school barriers down
Loved this video. Baseball is a metaphor for life
Tom house is the best pitching coach ever. I have followed his routine with every player i coached.
Amazing stuff sir, truelly greatness.
Nice job sir...
Love the gracie quote behind him!
This is my pitching coaches coach
Same
This is my dad
Woah same
Goingham52 do you go to San dwire
Goingham52 dan
Straight up OG right here. My goodness
Please do more videos on him he is a god in the training world
Please help Kershaw. Dont want to see his career end in 2 years.
fascinating short documentary. Love these kind of videos. I found it interesting that at the top of the pyramid it is just, "unconscious ability". You just have to have the "it" factor.
it’s when you’re in “the zone” ... the ball feels light and fast, the plate seems closer than usual, ball us exploding out of your hand and still picking up speed when it eats up the “low outside corner” ..... 123urout!
Great communicator.
Gq snapped with this video for us real baseball ⚾️ fans
Tom House is a living legend
Awesome video!
Tom was my neighbor in Coronado ca for a long time. Nice guy helped my son pitch and get drafted
Go tom
Pretty sure Tyler Alexander watched this video before he threw 9 k's in a row Sunday lol
House is the real legend here! 💯🔥
Great video. I only wish I got into this when I was a kid. I either would have been a pro or like this guy.
Tom is a legend
Tom house is a legend.
Tom House is awesome!
I had a pitching coach who had been around this guy for a little and he would tell me stuff unlike any of my other coaches really cool stuff. Too bad that pitching coach went to Mexico to still try and play big time. So I only had like 5-10 lessons with him cool stuff
I read a baseball book in 1978 by Nolan Ryan and Joe Torre. Does it need updating now?
Passionate about it craft.
he got a pitching clinic and it was great!
I didnt know they were not doing non sport specific modular off season training back then. Nolan Ryan is kinda a trail blazer because its standard protocol now for all sports, wow.
Guess what folks, this man thought Shohei Ohtani looked EVEN BETTER mechanically before being shut down than he did in 2018. This man is the expert of pitching biomechanics.
Interesting there was a Carson quote in the back
Fascinating.
Ok Mr. Spock…..
Tom House is one of the best pitching coaches out there. Listen up kids.
Would be fun to see this guy react to the pitching motions of the pitchers of nowadays! Fixing Kershaw and Ohtani and looking at special specimens like Aroldis Chapman.
That into is how this man gets a job
this guy gets teaching
Any one else remember seeing his videos for sale on tv. about 25 years ago?
I thought if my dad ordered'em I'd be sling'n it . Yeah right.
i would love to see one of these with pete walker the pitching coach of the blue jays hes a pitcher whisperer lol hes made alot of guys alot of money
I could talk to this dude all day
I don’t really like baseball but I watched this whole thing. Lol
Worked with Tom at valley view highschool my 8th grade year on a broken big toe on my drag foot...good times
Valley view California, Arkansas..??
What year was this?
Holy crap this video is amazing
Ringku and Dinesh trained with him before or after the show?
perfect vid to watch while i eat dinner
Velocity is up as a whole, spin rate, strikeouts and every other metric imaginable at the cost of constant injuries, constant Tommy John surgery and the careers of a lot of athletes. Barely any player can make it through a season without getting hurt these days never mind multiple seasons.
"After three slow pitches my 82mph fastball looked 102"
That also sums up Doug Jones success in the majors lots of change ups at different speeds then his fastball looked a lot faster than it was
Do a great hitter
Hey Gq can you do that for soccer
Doubt it, you don't have a pitcher in 'soccer'
I didn’t throw very hard in high school. Maybe 88 and I loved to pitch backwards. My brother was my catcher and he knew this. My coach hated the fact I would throw a change up or a curveball first. But when I was blowing people away with only a 88mph fastball, he couldn’t argue with the results
Randy the GOAT.
What a genius
No way this dude invented the towel drill whaaaa
I wish i had somebody like this to help me. I know i could be one of the greats if i had help like this.
Im going to become a great anyway but it would be alot easier with professional help. Im just gonna continue practicing everyday for 2-3 hours and see where that takes me.
I believe in you. Good luck.
Keep working my brother
@@josephdolenga2713 I had a good streak going this summer. I was like 15 for 15 at bats without striking out.
Then i decided i was going to start trying to hit consistent line drives and not just bloopers and crap.
Thats alot harder lol.
I did hit one that's considered a "nuke." for me. Im the short, fast, athletic guy that usually just gets on with base hit, I just hit a deep fly out. Still, that ball had to have gone 280-300 feet, and it wasn't even on a homerun trajectory it was going to far up.
So ive been trying to hit the gym consistently, it ain't easy. I'm 5'9 133 pounds, soon to be sophomore and im done growing ;-;
@@rslwannabe9475 Ringku and Dinesh trained with Tom House before or after the show?
@@rslwannabe9475look up teacherman hitting, he’s on CZcams and he’s Aaron judge’s hitting coach he will help you
"Cream rises to the top, but turds float too." - Tom House
Funny. My son lands on the ball of his foot and he’s sliding all over the place. If he lands on his heel it’s balanced and straight. Any ideas how this helped Randy?
Wonder what some of these guys would’ve been like in today game with the technology and the widespread acceptance of programs like driveline
I think what we see in professional baseball today is that more of this insight has become common knowledge, which is why the speed of the average fastball has increased dramatically over the last fifteen years.
Dudes cool
im taking notes 😂
I went to a pitching camp with Tom house
Thats crazy bro
omberto ikr
That sucks we don't know Nolan Ryan's true peak fastball speed in today's standards. He looked like he threw harder than Chapman after throwing 8 innings.
@Ivan Montane "peak fastball speed" when he was throwing his fastest on today's radar gear. Is what I ment.
Nolan Ryan Pitcher’s Bible helped me.
I feel like the competence triangle diagram only represents pitchers haha. Those guys are a different breed. Nuts.
Someone tag Shohei Ohtani in this
Fun fact: House thinks Ohtani looks even better in 2020 than in 2018. Check his Twitter.
Hello
I wish I had seen this video in 1979, but that would have been impossible. Dissemination of this kind of insight just wasn't there. It was just developing in the margins at the highest level of professional baseball.
This guy got fired because they couldn't fire Ryan, he became the scapegoat.
Long toss?
Only as far as you can throw with good mechanics and on a straight line. Long toss doesn’t build arm strength, so make sure mechanics stay true: eyes level, glove firm & in front, drag back foot and go fast. Hope this helps.
What sticky substance was he giving them
He threw two no-hitters with the Rangers, not three.
flight: it was three, the cameras just werent on
HENRY Aaron?!
Hanks his nickname
Rip hank
Please help Shohei Ohtani!!
House thinks Ohtani looks better in 2020 than he did in 2018. He’s right
Back when the Texas Rangers were ahead of the game.. now they are behind the 8ball
This guy also works with Tom Brady
3:41 Don't tell a pc gamer this.
How did Nolan Ryan not win a Cy Young
Cuz he would win 15 and lose 15
I like the football drill…but what if your kid throws baseballs left handed and footballs right handed?🤦🏻♂️
How much juice are they on tho????😂😂😂
5th
More of this insight seemed to start being communicated more widely around the year 2000. I wish it had been in the 1970s and 1980s, but that was still the late stage of the "old school" methodologies that began losing credibility.
Then Nolan got hurt like a lot of pitchers today under the new training.
I'm early
10 like
First comment
120 mph lol
Day 1 Kung fu
ACCEPT JESUS AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR
The fact these pitchers get a elevated surface and natural advantage is just absolutely bullsh+t.