How Imai Tatsuya throws 100mph (Kounoe Training Method Explained)

This is pitcher Tatsia who recently signed with the Houston Astros and before he was one of the best pitchers in the NPB. I recently saw a YouTube video of him being a pitching coach and explaining all of his mechanical philosophies and basically what he thinks about in the pitching delivery. I thought it was super interesting. Emi uses a pitching philosophy, a pitching method called Kenoi method, which separates throwers into two different buckets, an armbody thrower and a leg body thrower. Amaya categorizes himself as a legody thrower and a lot of things he talks about and applies to his mechanics are because of him being a legody thrower. Without getting too much into the Koi method, I will make another video about that in the future. I thought that breaking down this video for Amai could help out a lot of pitchers in the United States. The video is in Japanese, but I will be uh translating it over in English and going over the points that I thought were most um interesting and important in what he's talking about and helping the other pitcher he is um in the video. MI has very unique qualities. He has a very, very low arm slot, but then has a lot of induced vertical break on his fast ball. He talks about how he throws one of his elite pitches, his gyro slider. He also talks about how he's able to have elite command and what he thinks helps him in that. There's a lot of lot of interesting information in the video. I'll also put the original video in the link below if you want to check that out as well. But in this video, I'll be going over the seven points that you guys could possibly apply to your own pitching delivery and your own pitching development. Hope you guys enjoy the video. Okay. So, first thing that Ami is talking about when he's talking about the set position is basically he likes to set up a tiny bit open and his shoulders out here out in front squared because of the fact that he can go back and load here and he knows that he's going to return back into this position. So, back to where he started. So basically, he doesn't like starting neutral or closed because no matter how far you go back, you can only return in that same spot. So what that means is basically saying that he's trying to finish in the same spot where he was, which is right around here. So if he's here, he can load back and go back right to the same spot.