A few decades ago, analytics began changing baseball. It quickly found it's way into other sports: the three point revolution in basketball, going for it on 4th down in football (just to name a few). But recently...there has been a plateau. All three analytics folks that I spoke with said Biomechanics and video capture would be that next frontier. Kyle Boddy of Driveline Baseball sat down with me to discuss biomechanics, and what the future of talent development in sports looks like. Kyle is perhaps the most influential person in baseball over the past 20 years, largely responsible for the increase in pitching velocity through a variable training approach. Currently, besides running Driveline, Kyle consults for the Boston Red Sox.

00:00:00 Intro

00:02:36 Biomechanics in Sports

00:03:19 Aroldis Chapman, Boston Red Sox

00:06:20 Baseball and F1 - First Movers

00:09:00 Driveline Baseball History

00:10:18 Kyle's Background

00:15:00 Variable Training & Injury Prevention

00:23:30 Criticism 33:32 Dominicans are Different

00:39:14 Where Sports are Behind

00:43:06 Specialization Injury Issues

00:46:56 The Norway Way

00:49:06 Finding Chess Prodigies

00:53:04 Building an Arm

01:04:29 The 400ms

01:07:05 Vision Study

01:12:20 Deception

01:15:00 Manufacturing Talent

01:18:50 Brain Study

01:22:27 Shohei Ohtani

01:28:28 How Fast Can We Throw?

01:29:30 Steroids

01:32:10 Basketball Revolution

01:37:20 Sleep Study

01:40:35 Load Management

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