Tuesday, March 27, 2018

INVOLVE YOUR LOWER BODY ON EVERY PITCH


Pro Pitching Institute

Causes for NOT engaging your lower body.

Anytime any movement forces you to prematurely use your throwing arm for balance, you’ll use your throwing arm to offset any weight into your foot plant, lose your target area and shorten your competitive pitching career.

How does a lower body disconnect happen?

When some movement forces you to use your throwing arm for balance, you physically disconnect your lower and upper bodies.
Only after you sense your body back is back in balance do you free your throwing arm to complete your delivery. By this point, your body position dictates your arm slot which delays your throwing hand into release and, consequently, expands your release window.

How do you know you use your throwing arm for balance?

On every pitch, you have every intention to deliver every pitch directly into your Catcher’s target without his mitt moving while displaying the movement you expect.
When your pitches fail to end up where you want and/or behave the way you expect, you’re using your throwing arm for balance.

How do you get your lower body to drive your motion?

To get your lower body to drive a very consistent and totally productive, spontaneous throwing (re)action, you isolate and eliminate the movement causing you to use your throwing arm for balance.

I’m trained to isolate the movement that’s causing you to use your throwing arm for balance. Want to finally gain control of your next pitch, then contact me through the Pro Pitching Institute.

Skip Fast
Chief Learning Officer/Executive Director
Professional Pitching Institute

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E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-524-3248

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Tuesday, March 20, 2018

How your pitching chain drives your results?


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Do you really understand your pitching chains?

The movements you see within any Pitcher’s motion comes from the Pitcher’s instinctive drive to keep their lower body as their center of balance.
- A Pitcher with a lower body center of balance gives their body no reason to use their arms to get their center of balance back to their lower body.
- A Pitcher who moves their center of balance from their lower body causes their mind to instantaneously use their arms to bring your center of balance back to your lower body.

Every pitching chain starts somewhere.

When a Pitcher begins their motion, they do 2 things.
- They begin their motion by planting their back foot on the ground and then
- They place their front foot on the ground.
How a Pitcher performs these 2 very controllable actions tells their body which hardwired “action-reaction” roadmap their motion is going to follow.
Once a Pitcher makes a specific “action”, their hardwired “action-reaction” roadmap produces a new center of balance. Their body “reacts” to their next center of balance with another very predictable “action-reaction” roadmap response. Pitchers travel along their “action-reaction” roadmap until they get their center of balance back to their lower body.

What causes a Pitcher’s pitching chain to produce sustainable excellence?

The way a Pitcher begins their “action-reaction” roadmap dictates their center of balance as they come out of their starting position and how they come out of their starting position determines their level of success.
Productive Pitching Chains … When a Pitcher begins their motion with their lower body as their center of balance, their hardwired “action-reaction” roadmap forces them to use a glove side rotation to land their foot plant with their center of balance centered on their front hip. The Pitchers plan on their body to move their center of balance back to their lower body by making an involuntary throwing reflex. In the process, the human body’s pursuit for a lower body center of balance takes the Pitcher’s throwing hand through a totally spontaneous, very sustainable, extremely consistent release window.  

Disruptive Pitching Chains … When a Pitcher begins their motion with their center of balance away from their lower body, their hardwired “action-reaction” roadmap forces them to spontaneously use their throwing arm for balance land cause them to land their foot plant with their center of balance centered on their back hip. Unfortunately, their arm action moves their throwing arm path from what they want to a path their hardwired “action-reaction” roadmap demands their arm take.  Once their front foot gets back on the ground, their hardwired “action-reaction” roadmap moves their center of balance from their back hip to their lower body. With their lower body as their center of balance, to complete their delivery, the Pitcher must move their center of balance away from their lower body. Easily done, but due to the Pitcher having to use their throwing arm for balance earlier in their motion, the Pitcher’s throwing hand begins their throwing action from a less-than-optimal position. The result … the Pitcher’s ball doesn’t end up where they want nor behave how they want!

Any Pitcher wanting to make their pitching chain more productive, please contact me at imlookingforapitchingcoach@propitchinginstitute.com.

Skip Fast
Chief Learning Officer/Executive Director
Professional Pitching Institute
WWW: http://www.propitchinginstitute.com 
E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-524-3248

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Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Expect better pitching results!


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Expect better pitching results!

How often do your pitches do what you expect?

Every pitch you’ve ever thrown has an impact your next pitch result. Seeing your next pitch to travel directly into your Catcher’s mitt while displaying the movement you expect tells you your long hours of preparation were worth it.

You always execute your next pitch to the best of your ability, but you still see far too many of your pitches not end up where you want. You don’t intentionally try to miss your target, but, for some unknown reason, you continually experience these unacceptable outcomes.

Your unintentional misses indicate an issue with your preparation and, unless you make changes to the way you prepare for each pitch, hope (which isn't a recommended success strategy) becomes the foundation for your improvement plan!

Better preparation produces better pitch results.

Proper preparation automatically gets your pitches to end up where you want and behave the way you want.

Hyper productive preparation uses your body the ways it’s built to work. You use known action/reaction patterns to tell you how to permanently make your troublesome results more productive.

Ineffective preparation treats your body’s instinctive responses as if they were controllable actions. Your unplanned outcomes disappear when you consciously stop trying to change your body's involuntary reflexes.

Want to find out what better preparation looks like?
Want to discover the actions that’ll improve your results?

Skip Fast
Chief Learning Officer/Executive Director
Professional Pitching Institute
WWW: http://www.propitchinginstitute.com 
E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-524-3248

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Tuesday, March 6, 2018

What does your pitching future look like?


Pro Pitching Institute
Without an ability to locate your pitch, your dream of becoming a Major League Pitcher fades.

Forward weight shifts.
When you begin motion with your feet wider than your hips, your motion contains a forward weight shift. Your mind senses your forward weight and forces you use your throwing arm to offset your forward weight shift. You delay your throwing hand into release, you expand your release window and you cause yourself to lose control over where your ball ends up and how your ball behaves.

Here’s the proof.
During Spring Training, you’ll see lots of Pitchers taking the mound who want to get promoted to the Majors. The biggest reason these Pitchers are still in the Minors is their inability to locate their pitches against professional hitters. When you watch a Spring Training game, you’ll notice these Pitchers all have the same footwork. Each of these Pitchers begin their motion with their feet farther apart than their hips.

Here’s more proof.
When you watch a Spring Training game, watch Spring Training game backwards.
When you see a Pitcher miss their target outside their Catcher’s body, on their next pitch, focus on their foot placements before their front foot even comes off the ground. What you’ll see is the Pitcher beginning their delivery with their feet placed wider than their hips.

Shrinking your target area is easy.
One of the many things you can do to shrink your target area to begin your motion with your feet under your hips, but, remember, many other things must happen before you’ll know how to produce sustainable location at the highest levels.

For more information about other fixes, contact me.

Skip Fast,
Pro Pitching Institute
Pitching Expert
Web: www.propitchinginstitute.com
E-mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-524-3248