Hand Yourself Elite Pitching Command

This is your body’s reality.

Your body is driven to use your arms to maintain your balance. Your hand separation tells you the exact moment you begin using your arms for balance and, armed with this information, reveals how you can improve your command.

During your motion, your hand separation tells you your throwing arm path is either …

- An out-of-control reaction or
- A planned reaction to a well-choreographed upper body movement.

You can’t afford to lose control of your hand separation.

When your hand separation becomes a balance-promoting reaction to your stride, you can only hope each pitch ends up in your target and here’s why?

- In this instance, to move down the mound, you must stride.
- To offset your stride’s forward weight shift and to keep your body in balance, your hands separate.
- Until your front foot gets back on the ground and your body gets back in balance, your hand separation indicates your throwing arm path is out of control.
- As a result, you lose the natural ability to deliver more than 2 pitches in a row into your target.

By realizing your hands separate after you begin your stride and your hand separation directly relates to your starting position, getting your hands to separate before you begin your stride means your focus turns toward your starting position.

To produce elite command, your hands take you out of your starting position.

When your hand separation becomes the first thing you see as you move out of your starting position, you expect each pitch to travel directly into your target and here’s why?

- By ending your front leg lift with your body in balance, your only alternative to move down the mound becomes a choreographed upper body rotation.
- By association, as you move out of your starting position, your upper body rotation makes your hand separation the first thing you see happen.
- As you move down the mound, your instinctive urge for self-preservation senses your rotational imbalance and, to protect you from falling on your nose, places your front foot back on the ground.
- With your stride interrupting your body’s twisting action, the only way to restore your balance becomes using your throwing arm to make a throwing action.

Your spontaneous throwing reaction continually brings your throwing hand through the same productive release window and, consequently, delivers every pitch directly into your Catcher’s target.

To fast-track the adjustments required to have your hand separation take you out of your starting position, contact us.

Skip Fast

Expert Pitching Coach
Professional Pitching Institute

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E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
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