Um, why was the thread on the Mills program locked prematurely, when people were still responding? If you want to say something supportive of Dick and his program, simply respond with positive feedback, don't just close the thread for no reason.

This topic has proven volatile in the past. Topics such as this will be locked by me when I see empty responses that serve no useful purpose. I will not be biased on the way I treat these postings…but it takes a lot of time to monitor this forum. It’s easier to lock the thread to allow people to understand that this forum is about helping individuals that want to learn. If someone has legitimate input one way or the other, then okay. But “it’s great” or “it stinks” is not useful since there’s nothing specific to comment on today’s “Dick Mills” system.

Pretty quick on the trigger there, cap.

Cap_n

Is that you pitching in your avatar ?? If it is you can still pitch ! Your mechanics look fantastic ! How hard do you throw now ?
I would not hesitate sending someone to you for instruction and apologize for my early morning response to PolishPride/Sparticus but just rolled out of bed and was half asleep after restless night tossing and turning...anyway my laughter sometimes helps me deal with things and it just struck me as funny about the boring pitcher to sleep part. PolishPride is super guy and has a great sense of humor that I respond to...he is quite an athlete too, BTW. That's why I call him Sparticus ! peace, Shep

Cap, I'm not quite sure I follow your reasoning, I mean the Mills system is a $400 purchase and I can find plenty more value in the responses to my initial thread posting than some of the dreck that crops up in these forums. And, scanning down the different topics in the pitching forum, it takes a sharp eye indeed to pick up the total number of topics that have been locked...so while you certainly have the power to police the threads as you wish, I am inclined to agree with Texan here, that you were a little rushed in closing the first Mills thread. I mean, I would like to read what people have to say before possibly investing hard-earned cash on an "unproven" commodity.

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Pretty quick on the trigger there, cap.

You read me like a book...and I apologize

Shep....not targeted at you. ........oh...700 mph

Philler....I'm encouraging everyone to continue with posts pro or con about the Mills program. I'll regroup then by deleting posts of no useful content.

cap


Stick to your gut feelings !!!!!

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Shep....not targeted at you. ........oh...700 mph

Woo...Thank God for that. Feel like a dart board w/basketball size bullseye on my back at a bullfight at current time Can you beweeve that???

Peace Cap_n,

Shep

I fully understand and support why Cap'n chose to lock the thread when he did.

All of the moderators of this website are unpaid, and most of us have fulltime jobs. We can't spend 24 hours per day monitoring a topic that seems to be headed for trouble, based on our observations of the same topic in past threads. Sometimes we have to head off trouble before it gets out of control. For some reason, threads about the various pitching "gurus" have often turned heated in the past, leading several times to threats of lawsuits against me, the (also unpaid) owner of this site.

The message Cap'n sent by closing the thread was not "you can't ask about Dick Mills", but rather, "hey folks, let's be respectful of the Board Manners and of other members, and post thoughtful and helpful responses".

Thanks, Cap'n!

Julie

Mills has made a large amount of money marketing himself as THE authority of pitching instruction and training. He is a man with some information that some thought they needed. I have seen his work and it is not revolutionary or unique. Mills missed the mark in many ways as he advertised the talent and success of his young son to promote himself and criticized every one he could along the way. The conclusion for Ryan Mills was a kid that once had huge upside and ended up being a desireless prisoner of his mechanics that could no longer compete. This is rather sad, but people bought it.

Philler you have a PM.

My mother purchased his DVDs for me last october, and to be perfectly honest... They bore me to death.
I watched the trunk rotation part about 300 times over, and had myself video taped ETC.

Yet none of his advice really did much more for me.
I went and got 1-1 lessons at Frozen Ropes training center.
And my mechanics have never been better, I'm finally injury free for the first season in my short baseball career.

I'll look at Mill's DVDs probably this summer, but as of now they are collecting dust.

[in the past I had growth plate problems in my shoulder, tendonitis etc.] due to horrible mechanics involving something similar to K-Rod of the Angels, but my arm couldn't catch up to my body, and it was kind of "yanked" behind me.