Director of Performance - Motor Preferences Experts
07/27/2026
👀 Our schedule allows us to offer only one more public coach education clinic this year!
On August 15–16 in St. Paul, coaches will learn how to build a more complete Player Movement Profile, understand the strategies each athlete relies on, and turn those insights into better coaching and development decisions.
Seats are limited : https://tinyurl.com/bdex3zdy
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🔥Same athlete. Same body. Same objective.
😮Yet his right-handed and left-handed deliveries are clearly not identical.
😮Reality doesn't always fit coaching theories.
😮The best coaches don't force reality to match the model.
🔥They adjust the model to match reality of the athlete.
🔍The nuances are in the details.
👏And the details are often where performance lives.
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05/27/2026
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🔥 I’m fired up to be back delivering in-person training!
🚨We’re kicking things off at the brand new Gasso Centre of Excellence in Norman, Oklahoma.
📅June 16-17 : Immerse yourself in 2 powerful days of elite-level Motor Preferences training trusted by top NCAA and pro coaches!
You’ll leave equipped with the tools to:
- Truly personalize your coaching
- Cut injuries dramatically
- Optimize every athlete’s potential
- Give your team a stronger competitive edge for 2027
👉Register now → https://shorturl.at/avpAB
Spots are limited. Don’t miss this opportunity.
😉See you there !
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05/19/2026
👀 Motor Preferences Experts, LLC
🧐After evaluating thousands of athletes, I keep observing recurrent geometric attractors in motor organization.
- Not just in posture.
- Not just in mechanics.
- But in how athletes organize space itself through:
👉visual preferences,
👉movement trajectory,
👉global coordination,
👉And the forearm-hand complex : the body’s primary interaction system with the environment.
🤯I am currently developing a neuro-geometry of movement hypothesis linking perceptual-spatial preferences to global motor organization...
Volodalen
05/11/2026
👍Excited to follow 11 of our MPEFam softball programs competing in NCAA Regionals this weekend, with 8 earning Regional Host sites as national seeds.
That’s an incredible reflection of the players, coaches, and staffs continuing to push the game forward at the highest level.
We’re grateful to play a role in their journey and excited to continue helping programs better understand how athletes naturally move and perform 🤝
Volodalen Motor Preferences Experts, LLC
04/30/2026
👀New article is live : When Baseball mistakes the trend for the truth.
has more data, tech, and “elite” training models than ever. But when a context-specific pattern becomes a universal rule: athletes often pay the price.
From forefoot running to swing mechanics, velocity chasing, and one-size-fits-all development, this article challenges parents, players, and coaches to ask better questions.
- Data matters.
- Metrics matter.
😱But athletes are not spreadsheets.
Read it here: https://shorturl.at/TPmk3
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Nobody’s doing it like Mason Miller this season.
👊 6 SV
👊 23 Ks
👊 0.00 ERA
What makes Miller particularly interesting is not only the performance itself, but how well his motion fits his Motor Profile.
Miller’s morphology stands out: long upper and lower limbs combined with a relatively shorter torso and wide shoulders. This type of structure typically allows efficient acceleration of long lever arms. Yet when we observe him pitch, his organization appears relatively axial. Despite long segments, he organizes force more proximally, maintaining controlled flexion in both elbows.
This reminds us that morphology alone does not dictate movement strategy. The nervous system ultimately determines how anatomical resources are used.
Several motion characteristics provide clues about how his system organizes force:
• slight asymmetry in arm organization
• center of mass positioned forward with relatively high COG
• rear leg showing flexion sequencing capacity
• lead foot landing relatively flat with strong forefoot anchoring
During the load phase, the shoulders remain relatively parallel to the hips, limiting early separation. Near release, the shoulders rotate aggressively, approaching ~90° just after ball release.
Rather than aggressively “firing” the hips, Miller appears to “clear” them, using a classic tall-and-fall strategy to create forward momentum.
His lead leg functions as the true “gas pedal.” Consciously, it represents the starting point of force expression, while the rear leg mainly provides unconscious support.
The push from the rear leg can be measured.
The intention driving coordination cannot.
Yet intention is what allows the nervous system to organize movement efficiently.
🚨 The goal is not to copy movements.
👊 The goal is to understand which movements fit the athlete.
That is the difference between prescribing mechanics… and understanding performance.
12/19/2025
🙏Thank you to everyone who joined us at the
National Fastpitch Coaches Association - NFCA Convention in Las Vegas!
What an incredible event! Between the pre-convention seminar, the batting cage session, and our booth that was truly packed from start to finish, the energy around was undeniable.
It was a real pleasure to see how curious, engaged, and open the softball community is to a deeper understanding of movement. The conversations we had confirmed one thing: Motor Preferences are no longer a curiosity: they’re becoming part of the landscape.
Thank you for your questions, your enthusiasm, and your trust.
We’re excited to keep building, sharing, and pushing the science of movement forward with you.
See you soon, on the field and beyond.
David
Volodalen Motor Preferences Experts, LLC
10/27/2025
👀Motor Preferences Experts, LLC
⏳Time flies… Three weeks ago I was in Lausanne as a guest speaker at the conference on Movement Individualisation at the Olympic Museum!
🙏Two inspiring days of exchange and collaboration with the entire Volodalen team and, of course, with Cyrille Gindre.
🔬 For more than 25 years, Volodalen has been advancing the science of human movement with over 80 scientific publications & articles.
🧠 Their VIBE wearable technology not only quantifies over 25 biomechanical metrics (stride, jump, coordination, asymmetry...) but also correlates with the Motor Preference profiles identified through Volodalen’s testing protocols.
👊Proud to contribute to this next step in the science of movement where technology meets human individuality.
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