Ty Rybarczyk

10/22/2026

Registration for our winter throwing program is live! This is a 15 week program for 5th-8th graders and high school athletes. This program will have a capacity.

Full details and the registration form can be found here: https://bit.ly/4dmiVAN

Instructors:
Jake Sale - Parkland College/Illinois State University alum

Ty Rybarczyk - Parkland College/University of Illinois/Indiana University alum

Colton Williams - Illinois Central College alum

10/20/2026

When a throw has a lot of unnecessary movement, introduce a time constraint.

Think of a shortstop throwing out a fast runner at first or an outfielder trying to throw a runner out at home.

Rather than cueing an athlete to shorten their arm action, create an environment that demands a more efficient throw.

10/19/2026

Schedule for this upcoming week is live. Let’s get to work!

10/19/2026

When training command, I almost always prefer using a nine-pocket target, especially with younger athletes.

It provides clear, objective feedback. Did you hit the target? Yes or no. With a catcher, that feedback isn’t always as obvious.

We want to challenge athletes to explore and find better movement solutions, but we can’t lose sight of the end goal. Those movement solutions are only valid if they carry over into the game and allow us to compete in the zone.

10/18/2026

10/18/2026

Gamifying the practice environment is a great way to create intentionality and buy-in to practice with youth athletes.

By designing an environment where athletes become more attuned to what gets rewarded, feedback becomes more meaningful and we create better opportunities for learning to transfer into results when it matters most.

10/15/2026

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10/14/2026

The early offseason is a great time to put athletes in a high variability, high feedback throwing environment. By manipulating constraints and throwing implements, we can challenge athletes to explore different movement solutions and solve new problems.

This gets back to Bernstein’s concept of repetition without repetition. Developing adaptable problem solvers who can get out of their own way rather than consciously control every aspect of the throw.

By challenging athletes on the front end, we can build throwing capacity and lay a solid foundation that sets us up for greater throwing gains when the time comes to push intensity later in the offseason.

10/12/2026

Availability is now open for the upcoming week!

10/09/2026

A lot of Davy’s progress came from building a better foundation and then putting him in a throwing environment where he could explore and learn to express that newfound capacity.

Increasing physical capacity is only valuable if we create opportunities for the athlete to learn how to use it. That’s why the throwing environment needs to complement the work taking place outside of it.

A lot of credit goes to Davy for consistently showing up and executing the plan we put in front of him.

When we can bridge the gap between physical capacity and the actual throw, that’s when we start to see meaningful results.