the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Don R. Mueller, Ph.D. (Professor Tennis) , will be (https://www.supersciencesaturday.org) giving a Physics of Sports demo featuring new methods and techniques in the popular throwing and swinging sports: baseball/softball, football, tennis and golf.
Prof. Don R. Mueller: a semi-retired physics professor and former pro baseball pitcher involved with the Physics of Sports. Some sportswriters are calling me The Nutty Professor of Sports. I’m showing coaches and players in NY, NJ, PA and beyond who practice throwing and swinging type sports how to “do their thing” with more power and less pain; thanks to some simple physics know-how. Some of his research was featured full-page in the NY Times in 2018: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/sports/tennis/don-mueller-rackets.html
Prof. Don R. Mueller will introduce a throwing technique of mine called Power-Pronation (used in throwing both baseballs/softballs and footballs) and featured in the following article by national baseball writer Steve Krah (a long-time member of the Society For American Baseball Research – SABR): Power-Pronation: An Alternative Way For Pitchers To Throw
Interestingly, Power-Pronation (supination before pronation) might be the ticket to get injured players back to the majors. In the mid-to-late 1980’s I was a pro baseball pitcher (who threw 95 mph, but sustained injury after injury). I could also throw a baseball more than 360 feet. Nowadays, as the physics professor, who still throws and swings stuff, He is trying to encourage injured players to try my methods (based in physics) to renew their career. Why not give it a try?
Power-pronation is an ideal method for throwing a football with power and better spin (He actually developed the technique from experiments in football throwing) even though I’ve done more demonstrations in baseball than football. I’m also working on another method for football throwing called the Tomahawk Technique: the wrist moving from dorsi-flexion to palmer-flexion (rather than pronation) as the arm launches forward. Two players, in particular, come to mind when Prof. Don R. Mueller introduced this technique: Don Meredith (Prof. Don R. Mueller spoke to his son about his dad) and Michael Vick (Prof. Don R. Mueller calls his motion the Vick Flick). There are other players I talk about as well: Bobby Douglass (could throw 90 yards) and the late Greg Cook (Bill Walsh called the most gifted QB he ever coached). Sam Wyche (1945 – 2020) and Prof. Don R. Mueller chatted by phone several times about Greg Cook in connection with his throwing techniques. RIP Sam.
Prof. Don R. Mueller will perform these demonstrations of his methods and techniques at a high level, which surprises folks who say: How is that old man able to do that? To which He replies: “If I can do it just think about how you can do it and even better as a young person.”
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And he does all this for free…?
who are you ,Bernie Sanders?
Free? Well, no good deed goes unpunished, so I guess there is a price to be paid.
Bernie Sanders makes about as much sense as the quantum mechanics I tried to learn and then later tried to teach. Well, I tried.