My Name is Dennis (Deno) Webb. Like so many of you, I have a have a passion for sports & competition. Lake7,inc is an innovation company, creating solutions, products and new ways to approach common issues found in the sport, leisure and field & stream markets. Lake7, inc holds & licenses patents while seeking new patent opportunities within multiple markets.

1. Quick thoughts: the OverHead Throwing
Motion & the Weighted Bal
So what about weighted balls? Weighted ball
throwing programs? We have all read
countless articles on how safe they are and
how evil they are. As you might guess this is
one of the hottest topics out here at this
moment in baseball and football. Tomorrow
it will be something else, but today it is “do
we or do we not throw weighted balls” as
part of our training program.

2. For us it’s simple. When in doubt don’t
In the countless meetings we have had with
orthopedic surgeons and “medical institutions” in
the business of sports medicine, along with the
many meetings with top university sports research
groups, we hear over and over again about
“leverage and physics”. The common area of
concern is always “repetitive inline (linear) forces
and the need to create counter forces (cross
training) to fend off “grooving” injuries. Funny, we
have never read anything out there about
“grooving” but we keep hearing the word in
describing how certain injuries in the shoulder
occur.

3. Within the throwing motion there are actually 2
acceleration and 1 deceleration phases. ANY weight
put in a persons hand to be thrown increases
leverage. “That fact” everyone understands
because there is no subjectivity to it – it is simply
physics. A rock, a brick, a football, baseball, a
paper clip, whatever. All weight on the distal end
of a lever creates leverage. As we all would agree
too , the area effected most by leverage is the
weakest link of the lever. With regards to the over
head throwing motion that could be the wrist,
elbow or shoulder depending on whose arm it is
and the motion/path/slot the arm is making.

4. In the acceleration phase you get one set of issues
created by the leverage. In the decel phase you get
a whole new set of issues, like how do you keep a
joint from separating while decelerating the object
on the end of the lever…ie, the hand. The throwing
motion is all about the creation of leverage and the
shedding of leverage. The physics are simple – the
more weight you put in your hand the more leverage
you create. We often see kids in a pitching clinic
going through the throwing motion with a towel in
their hand. Ugh. We understand what they ‘think”
they are accomplishing but realize what they are
“actually doing”. (ie, leveraging up the acceleration
phase with resistance – the towel – while increasing
the weight -the towel-

5. What we have done at Lake7 is create a resistance
tool / device that does NOT load up/lever the
elbow yet creates instability (contra-forces) in the
throwing motion while providing for a “cushion” to
the deceleration phase of the throw. Our device
encourages building core strength for the
acceleration phase, contra-forces (instability)
within the over head motion and rebound in the
deceleration / termination phase. The result is
increased control, higher velocity, increased
endurance and total amazement something so
simply works so amazingly well.

6. If you would like to know more about our device
please contact us at Deno@7Webb.com
My Name is Dennis (Deno) Webb. Like so many of
you, I have a have a passion for sports &
competition. Lake7,inc is an innovation company,
creating solutions, products and new ways to
approach common issues found in the sport, leisure
and field & stream markets. Lake7, inc holds &
licenses patents while seeking new patent
opportunities within multiple markets.