"Do" what your coach says or "drop it"?

"Do it" - Every pitcher I work with tells me, as soon as I adjust their footwork and monitor their front foot lift, they feel they're using much less effort to produce better results.   To support this, their mind's "built-in response mechanism immeidately shows ...

1. Them having greater leg involvement.

2. Their wort results finish noticeably closer to their target.
3. Them no longer aiming and, for the first time, pitching.

4. Instead of the 10,000 focused repetitions required to master a "feel", they experience a personal "aha" moment then...
"Do it"!

"Drop it" - Any time a coach asks you to make some change within your motion and...

1. Your new movements don't make your motion look and feel more efficient.

2. Your worst misses finish outside your catcher's body at the same rate as before the adjustment.

3. Your back hips show your throwing arm pulling your back hip forward.
4. You find yourself working on your muscle memory (still need 10,000 focused to master a "feel"), then 

"Drop it!"

To experience coaching the way it needs to be, contact me.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

   “My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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Before you make any changes, answer these 3 questions.

Question 1 - Does a change really need to happen?

Yes, I’d make the adjustment - When your results are unacceptable to baseball people at the highest levels, you need to make an adjustment!

No, I wouldn’t make the change - when the reason for your improvement comes from something you see another pitcher do, what someone says you need to do or you're merely experimenting with your movements, I’d recommend you keep your current motion and merely optimize your footwork.

Question 2 - Why should the change happen?

Yes, I’d make the adjustment – your mind's "built-in response mechanism" indicates the adjustment will improve your results.

No, don’t make the change – anytime your mind's "built-in response mechanism" shows the change causes your hips to tilt, stay away from making the adjustment.

Question 3 - How do you make your change happen?

Yes, I’d make the adjustment - When the way your mind's "built-in response mechanism" keep your body in balance  levels your hips, make the adjustment.

No, don’t make the change – Anytime you’re trying to change some movement within your motion, keep doing what you’re doing.

By using your mind's "built-in response mechanism" to drive your adjustments, you always have a valid reason to make a change and you're guaranteed to produce better results.

• Once you make these adjustments, you'll notice see more people staring at you and wondering why their delivery can't accomplish what they see you do!!!

To become the pitcher you know you can be, contact me.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

   “My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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There's no right or wrong in nature.

In nature, your mind's "built-in response mechanism" doesn’t care whether your movements are productive or disruptive. 

All your mind's "built-in response mechanism cares about is keeping or getting your hips level.

Your mind's "built-in response mechanism" might not care about your hip orientation, but you should!

All consecutive year, Cy Young winners keep their hips level into their front foot lift.

Managing your mind - With well-managed movements, your mind's "built-in response mechanism" keeps your throwing arm free to instantly respond to your lower body actions. Once your glove side triggers your foot plant, to get back in balance, your mind's "built-in response mechanism" instinctively pulls your throwing hand into release.  As a reflex, your throwing hand consistently moves through a tiny release window.

Journeymen pitchers let their minds manage them.

Your mind controls you - Your hip tilt forces 
your mind's "built-in response mechanism" to use your arms for balance.  Because you're using your throwing arm for balance, you delay your throwing arm into your release.  Your independent throwing arm action expands your release window, makes you miss your target over the plate too often and, in general, produces unacceptable results.

Your body may not care about how you keep yourself in balance, but, unless you care, you’re unnecessarily shortening your pitching career.

When, for no known reason, your worst pitches travel outside your body, ask me to turn your throwing arm balance into lower body balance.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

   “My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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Are You Putting Yourself in Jeopardy?

You’re putting yourself in jeopardy are when you obsess over your results.

A Performance Driven Delivery

A "performance driven performance" model means you use prematurely use your throwing arm for balance, delay your throwing arm into release and produce unacceptable results.

You can't control your results...

• The hitter directly influences your results.  Good hitters hurt your results.  Bad hitters pad your results.
  - You can't control your opponent, so why measure your results against your opponent?
• Your naturally unproductive performances force you to use your last pitch location to influence your next pitch arm angle.
  - You can't overpower your mind's "built-in response mechanism", so why not do something to work with it?
• Your constant change in arm angle, no matter how subtle, creates the small ligament tears and fraying that, over many repetitions, makes you an extreme Tommy John risk.
  - You fail to address your arm slot changes and, because your throwing arm distress takes you off the mound, you won't have to worry about your results?
• Your inability to dominate at your current level hitters translates to next level hitters totally controlling you, not you dominating them.
  - When you properly address the cues your mind's "built-in response mechanism", you move past "potential" and show talent evaluators "ability"?

The opposite of a performance driven delivery is a motion driven delivery.

• You use your footwork to position your hips to keep your throwing arm free to instantly respond to your stride
• Your throwing hand moves through a naturally healthy, totally spontaneous and extremely acceptable performance.
• You motion produces your results without you requiring your results to drive your results.

Want a naturally productive, Tommy John resistant motion?  … Ask me to show you how properly managed footwork gets you to pitch as good as or better than you ever expected.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

   “My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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How do you rank against other pitchers?

Anyone can be ordinary, but, in pitching, the ability to produce sustainable fastball command will exceed everyone's expectations and move you to the head of the class.

• Sustainable fastball command comes from your mind's "built-in response mechanism" keeping your throwing arm free to immediately respond to your body position at foot plant.
• Keeping your throwing arm free to respond to your mind's "built-in response mechanism" keeping your hips level at the top of your front leg lift.

Not only does your sustainable fastball command turns you into a baseball scout magnet.  When people see how efficient your movements looks, they don't know why, but the stop and stare at your movements in an  attempt to figure out how you do what you do.

To find out how to properly manage your mind's "built-in response mechanism" and, at the same time, exceed your wildest expectations, contact me.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

   “My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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Keep it simple.

“Keeping it Simple” means you have a singular focus on your footwork.

Your footwork determines whether you control your movements or your movements control you.

Your footwork allows you to get your throwing arm to make one spontaneous, location-producing, velocity-enhancing, late-ball-movement reaction.

Without a focus on your footwork , instead of your improvement being execution drive, your improvement relies upon your ability to use your last pitch results to determine your next pitch arm slot. 

• Your footwork is the only way to offset your natural urge to use your throwing arm for balance. 
• based upon the time we spent figuring out how to optimize your footwork, when you try to manage your own footwork, by the time you figure out what you need to do, you'll be past your pitching prime. 

By showing you how to optimize your footwork, as soon as you begin your delivery, just like all consecutive year, Cy Young winners, you keep your throwing arm free to instantly trigger a Tommy John resistant, naturally productive and totally spontaneous throwing reflex.

Want to simplify your delivery and supercharge your results, then contact me.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

“My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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Are You Focused On the Right Stuff?

Are you thinking more about your best pitches or are you thinking about your worst misses?

You expect to do well, but your worst pitches tell you what you need to work on to generate many more productive pitches.

… By addressing the reason you to missed your target by so much, you'll permanently improve your delivery.
... With a laser focus on what you do well, you improve nothing.

When your movements cause you to you miss your target outside your catcher's body, you …

... Consciously changing your throwing arm slot to get your next pitch into your target area does nothing to permanently shrink your target area.
... Also, thinking your miss was just a fluke occurrence is not a solution.
... Taking a breath, making sure you use your optimized footwork and make a complementary front foot lift brings your next pitch back to your target.

By optimizing your footwork, your worst misses finish much, much closer to your target.

The instant you realize no one is truly addressing or knows how to improve your worst misses, ask me for help.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

   “My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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Do you have a valid reason to make a change?

You're using "blind instruction" anytime you make an adjustment without having a valid reason to make the change. 

You only have a short window to prove to someone you would be an asset to their team.  

• “Blind instruction” extends your learning curve and reduces the chance someone/anyone will recognize your pitching skills.

Everything within your motion follows how your mind's "built-in response mechanism" processes your hip orientation.

- Changing an action without consideration to how impact your hip orientation means you're using trial and error to improve your delivery?

Everything you see within everyone else's motion is a reaction to a prior action.

- Attempting to include in your motion what you see in someone else's motion changes your hip orientation?  Blindly following what you think you see in someone else's motion is pitching suicide.

When manage the way your mind's "built-in response mechanism" interprets your hips, your mind begins controlling your actions.

- You use your mind's "built-in response mechanism"  to tell when and where to make adjustment that'll instantly shrink your target area, get your ball to break closer to the plate and, no matter the pitch selection, show the opposition a deceptive arm action.

Stop blindly doing what you think you should do and ask me to me to use your mind's "built-in response mechanism" to instantly make your results much more acceptable.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

   “My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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Simplicity within the Complexity

To truly measure your improvement, count your ratio of pitches that finish outside your catcher's body compared to your total number of pitches thrown.

Measuring the number of times you miss your target outside your catcher's body tells you...

1. Whether your throwing arm balance is controlling you or a totally spontaneous throwing (re)action manages your results and

2. Whether you use your eyes to find your target area or  to fine tune your location within your target area.

The critical driver for your success is consistently delivering your pitches to within inches of your target.

Best - By keeping your hip level at the top of your front leg lift, you consistently deliver every pitch within your catcher's body.
Better- Even though your throwing arm balance controls your movements, your well-developed eye-to-hand coordination produce acceptable results.  (Unfortunately, eye-to-hand coordination is not a teachable skill.)
Ordinary - Your throwing arm balance takes over your movements and you possess minimal eye-to-hand coordination.

Using your results as your critical driver tells you what you need to address to guarantee success.

Should you struggle with your ratio of worst misses against total pitches thrown, contact me.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

   “My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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Want to be ordinary... then focus on your velocity.

Without any consideration for pitch location, the pitching culture urges you to maximize your velocity.  Most pitchers, unfortunately, make this theirfocus.

Velocity with location comes from …

o Using your footwork to keep your hips level.

o Using your entire body to enhance your velocity.

o Throwing through a naturally productive arm slot.

o Using your eyes to fine tune your location within your target area.

o Continually moving through a Tommy John resistant delivery.

o Knowing your combined velocity and location lets your immediately compete at the next level.

o Always keeping your opponent off balance.

o Elevating your performances way above ordinary.

o Relies on a very repeatable execution.

o  Knowing you're going to dominate.

Velocity without location comes from a casual approach to your footwork.  You ...

o   Let you footwork use your throwing arm for balance.

o   Use your upper body to create your velocity.

o Throw through a naturally unproductive arm slot.

o Use your eyes to find your target area.

o   Become an extreme risk for a Tommy John breakdown.

o Hope your velocity is enough to get you noticed.

o Never fool a patient hitter who waits for your next pitch to miss over the plate.

o Compete against every other pitcher who's velocity driven, but not against pitchers with fastball command.

o Rely on eye-to-hand coordination for your survival.

o Hope you do well.

Instead of working on your velocity, you realistically have a better chance of reaching the highest levels by, instead of your footwork managing you, managing your footwork.

Want to reach the highest levels? … ask me to help you!

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

   “My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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In-person instruction from hundreds of miles away.

Why a video-streamed bullpen session works?

Your body responds to your actions in extremely predictable action/reaction patterns.  I've trained myself to recognize your predictable action/reaction patterns and, better yet, know the subtle action adjustments proven to constructively change your current reaction pattern.

When I look at your action/reaction patterns, I know the solution to using less effort to produce better results lies within your footwork.

During your first couple of motions, depending upon what you show me, I may ask you to make a slight adjustments to your foot placements.

Next, I look to make sure your front foot lift keeps your hips level.

As soon as I'm satisfied with your front leg lift, I let you make your current throwing action.

As in all naturally productive, totally spontaneous and Tommy John resistant throwing reactions, your pitching process produces your sustainable fastball command.

That's all there to it! 

By adjusting your footwork, I’ll give you more control over your movements.

Every one of your follow-up sessions refines and reinforces the skills presented in your previous sessions.

Within a short time, you'll find your footwork producing the sustainable fastball command you always dreamed about.

No matter your skill level, contact me to use your footwork to have next level coaches notice your extremely efficient and totally fluid pitching actions.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

“My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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How do you use your eyes?

When you keep your hips level at the top of your front leg lift, your lower body delivers your pitches into your target area and you use your eyes to fine tune your location within your target area.

•  Your pinpoint location allows you to do something only a few pitchers can do... follow your team's pitching strategy.

By doing so, you become an bigger asset to your team than pitchers whose footwork forces them to use their throwing arm for balance.

When you use your throwing arm for balance, you use your eye-to-hand coordination to try an "feel" your target area.

•  By letting your footwork force you to use your throwing arm for balance, you use a process of trial and error to find a "feel" that consistently lands your next pitch close your target.

You inability to execute your team's pitching strategy gives you less worth to your team than pitchers who know how to follow their Team's strategy.

To find out how you can use your eyes to fine tune your results, contact me.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

“My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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Stop letting analysis paralysis hold you back.

A pitching motion is a fluid process with each movement impacting the next movement.

The right analysis takes you to the single point where your movements forces your hips to move from level.

• When done properly, you analysis points toward something related to your body position at the top your front leg lift.  Otherwise, you're wasting your time and solving nothing!

Using any of these items to improve create chaos and prolongs your learning curve…

1. Look at your motion and tell you a simple item within your motion that you need to improve.
2. Base their finding on someone else’s motion.
3. Think that what you need to improve is a correctable action.
4. Try to improve a single item without consideration that the action associated with that action.
5. Hold you responsible for figuring out how to fix what they think you need to fix.
6. Fail to lessen the amount of effort you use to produce the results you do.
7. Maintain your naturally unproductive arm slot.
8. Forces your motion to remain as injury prone as it was before the analyst presented you with the adjustment.

On the other hand, when you manage your footwork, you …

1. Look at your motion and let your movements tell you what you need to fix.
2. Base your findings on the way your body reacts to itself.
3. Know the difference between an action and a reaction.
4. Adjust your footwork accordingly.
5. Instantly see the correction within your delivery.
6. Use less effort to produce better results.
7. Turn your naturally unproductive and unhealthy arm slot into a naturally productive and Tommy John resistant arm slot.

Your footwork gives you a measurable and repeatable way to shrink your target area, generate much later ball movement and show each hitter an extremely deceptive arm action.

Ask me to use your foot placements to stop your analysis paralysis.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

“My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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6 Pitches to Motion Mastery

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I had to condense a remote bullpen session with a 26 year old free agent pitcher into 6 pitches..

To say the least, the results were extraordinary!

-   1^st pitch was used to show me how I could help this pitcher.

-   2nd pitch I asked this pitcher to make a simple back leg adjustment that would immediately transition him from an arm to a back leg balanced motion.

-   3rd and 4th motions were used to make sure and I was that this pitcher understood the adjustment.  During these couple of motion, I pick up on and introduced a very simple front leg adjustment proven to drive more energy into his throwing arm.

-  5th and 6th motions - This pitcher successfully included both adjustments into his delivery.

-  After the 6^th pitch, the pitcher was called into the game.

When the game was over, I received this response this pitcher.

“Your (2) tips dialed me into my target much more than usual and made my movements flow much more than usual!”

In just 6 pitches, just like all consecutive year, Cy Young pitching motions, I showed this pitcher how to get his glove arm to trigger his throwing action and forced his foot plant to pull his throwing hand through a naturally productive release window. 

The two adjustments I introduced let him, for once, manage his movements instead of his movements managing him.  He finally used his body the way it was built to work, not the way he forced it to work!!!

Knowing I can make this much progress in just 6 motions, imagine how productive I can make your next bullpen session.

Ask me to help you today ... your pitching future is at stake.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

“My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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Consecutive year Cy Young winner can't be wrong?

Every consecutive year,  Cy Young winner ends their front leg lift with their hips levels and their motion completely under their control.

• Their level hips means, instead of using their throwing arm for balance, they force their mind's "built-in response mechanism" to keep their arms uninvolved with their balance.
• Since their arms are free to move the way they want, they use their throwing action to shift their weight to their glove hand side.
• They then rely on their mind to make the totally spontaneous, naturally productive and Tommy John resistant throwing reflex that'll get their body back in a balance.
• Consecutive year, Cy Young winners know how to get in the same position at the top of their front leg lift ... they realize their mind's "built-in response mechanism" makes them a Cy Young contender ever year.

For consecutive years, these Cy Young winners use their mind's "built-in response mechanism" to bring their throwing hand through a highly productive release window. 

• They use their eyes to fine tune their location within their target area, no matter the pitch or release, shows the hitter a fastball arm and relies upon their lower body energy to get each pitch to break extremely close to the plate.

You have two options...

• Spend hours on end trying to figure out how to end your front leg lift with your hips level or 
• Ask me to show you how to end your front leg lift in balance. 

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

“My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

Pro Pitching Institute | Throwing Arm Health | Testimonials | Available Programs | Contact