Pitching … How to engage your lower body?

The best and easiest way to challenge every hitter on every pitch comes from turning your throwing action into a lower body reaction.

These are the choices you have to engage your lower body.

Your front leg lift.

By ending your front leg lift with your weight centered just in front of your back foot, your core is upright, and your arms are free to move anyway you want.

But not … By ending your front leg lift with your weight over your back foot, you tilt your core. You can move your arms anyway you want, but, unlike when you end your front leg lift with your weight centered in front of your back foot, your arm movements are separate from the rest of your body.

You move down the mound.

You open your glove side shoulder to create a lower body rotation. It’s your lower body rotation that forces you to move down the mound.

But not … To move down the mound, you’re force to shift your weight toward your target.

You complete your stride.

With your lower body rotation putting you in a position to literally fall on your face, you instinctively place your front foot on the ground.

But not … Your front foot hits the ground when the weight on your front side overpowers your throwing arm frantically trying to counterbalance your body mass on your back side.

You complete your throwing action.

Your natural foot plant stops your lower body rotation. The energy you generate by stopping your lower body rotation moves up your core and out your throwing hand.

But not … Landing your foot plant and getting your core back to vertical clears your body to make a secondary throwing action.

What lower body engagement does for you?

Your glove side shoulder opens to cause a chain reaction where your lower body rotation whips your throwing arm into release.

Because your throwing arm reacts to lower body activity, you spontaneously bring your throwing hand through a very productive and extremely consistent release window, you delivery every pitch into your Catcher’s mitt and, even on your off-speed pitches, show your opponent a fastball arm speed and exceptionally late ball movement.

But not … By using an upper body rotation to pull your throwing arm into release, you can’t deliver more than 2 pitches into your Catcher’s target, your ball takes a predictable path into your target and, based upon the pitch you throw, you change your arm slot and arm speed.

If you don’t know how to complete your front leg lift with your weight centered in front of your back foot, contact us for help.

Skip Fast

Expert Pitching Coach
Professional Pitching Institute

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