TURN GRAVITY INTO YOUR COMPETITIVE EDGE

Every time you get ready to throw a pitch, you expect it to travel directly into your Catcher’s target.

The reason you miss your target more often than you want boils down to one thing … gravity!

Even though you’ve lived with gravity since birth, even though gravity controls every movement you’ve ever made, you don’t realize what a huge influence gravity has on every pitch you throw.

When properly managed, gravity can turn your delivery into a well-timed, well-choreographed and very sustainable pitching machine.

However, when you ignore or dismiss gravity, your throwing arm path offsets your stride and, as a result, turns your ball release into a separate, unsupported and uncontrollable event. When you let this happen, you never know where any pitch will end up or, worse yet, when your pitch will drift over the plate.

When you properly manage gravity, gravity becomes the tool that’ll allow you to challenge every hitter on every pitch

Here’s the good news.

By following the process outlined at the Pro Pitching Institute, you’ll discover how to change gravity from a disruptive force into a competitive advantage. 

Tell a friend! Have a friend struggling with their pitch command? Make sure to tell them about the Pro Pitching Institute.

Skip Fast
Freelance Pitching Coach
E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-281-2596

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THE ONLY WAY TO MANAGE YOUR PITCHING MOTION.

You’ve dealt with this your entire life, yet it’s still stopping you from achieving your pitching dreams.

That force is gravity and it’s truly the missing link that’ll help you achieve your pitching dreams.

Since birth, gravity has governed every movement you’ve taken. No matter how you move, your brain takes your body through this 3-step, neurological cycle.

Balance

First, there’s balance.

Your brain makes sure to keep your weight centered between your feet or, when perched on one foot, between your knees.

When your weight is in balance, your body’s gravitational force is the same on all sides of your body!

Action 

Next, you make an action.

Some arm or leg action shifts your weight from center.

Recovery Mode

While in “recovery mode” …

• Your nervous system signals your brain to immediately override your current actions and, to get your weight back to center as quickly as possible, takes complete control of your movements.
• While your brain is busy getting your weight back to center, you feel like your actions have a life of their own.
• You regain control of your movements and begin this process all over again only after your nervous system sends your brain an “all clear” signal.

Once recovered, you begin this process all over again.

Expect Every Pitch to Travel into Your Target

When you know how to manage gravity, your productive “recovery mode” forces your brain to bring your throwing hand through the very repeatable and extremely dominant release window other pitchers spend lifetimes “trying” to find.

Here’s the good news.

By following the process outlined at the Pro Pitching Institute, you’ll force your “recovery mode” to end in a spontaneous throwing response. Once mastered, instead of using strikes or stats to measure your results, you use your ability to deliver every fastball directly into your Catcher’s target to measure your front leg lift.

Tell a friend! Have a friend struggling with their fastball command? Make sure to tell them about the Pro Pitching Institute.

Skip Fast
Freelance Pitching Coach
E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-281-2596

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An Athletic Stance Guarantees Sustainable Command

Whether you’re a Little League Pitcher, already pitching professionally or any level in-between, ending your front leg lift in an athletic position is one of the undeniable differences between sustainable fastball command and not knowing where your pitch is going to end up.

Every athletic event starts from an athletic position.

No matter the sport, except for pitching – we'll get into this in a second – you, like every athlete on the face of the earth, begin each play from an athletic position.

Your foot placements give you a stable foundation. When you bend your knees, you automatically center your weight between your feet. These 2 actions put you in a position to instantly do whatever you need to successfully complete the play and keep your Team close enough to win.

Poor athletic positions mean poor results.

You never end your athletic position with one foot in front of the other. Should you choose to do this, you know …

• You wouldn’t be stable.
• You’d use your arms to maintain your balance.
• You couldn’t react as quickly as you need to.

An athletic position where you place your feet in front of one another means, when you make a play, the chances you’re off-balance are huge and the chances the play ends poorly is just as great.

Pitching Ready Athletic Positions.

In pitching, when perched on one foot, your knees become your foundation. Therefore, by ending your front leg lift with your knees shoulder width apart, the chances each pitch travels directly into your Catcher’s target become a given.

When, however, you end your front leg lift with your front knee even with or behind your back knee…

• You’re unstable.
• You use your arms to stabilize your body and
• As a result, you never know where any one pitch is going to end up.

Here’s your bottom-line … unless you end your front leg lift with your knees shoulder width apart, you’ll always be searching for fastball command.

Here’s the good news.

By following the process outlined at the Pro Pitching Institute, you’ll end your front leg lift with your knees shoulder width apart. Once mastered, instead of using strikes or stats to measure your results, you use your ability to deliver every fastball directly into your Catcher’s target to measure your front leg lift.

Tell a friend! Have a friend struggling with their fastball command? Make sure to tell them about the Pro Pitching Institute.

Skip Fast
Freelance Pitching Coach
E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-281-2596

#ElitebyChoice

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Throwing reflexes create superior command.

How your body works.

Once you tilt your core, your body uses your arms to bring your core back to vertical.

Two ways to move down the mound.

There are 2 ways to move down the mound…

With a tilted core.

When you move down the mound with a tilted core, you use your arms to get your core back to vertical. Once your front foot gets back on the ground, you use your arms to complete this task. Only when your core returns to an upright position can you complete your delivery. However, when you complete throwing action your throwing arm ends up working by itself. With your throwing arm working by itself, you never really know where any one pitch is going to end up.

With an upright core.

When you move down the mound with an upright core, you lose your core at foot plant. The instant your core moves from vertical a throwing action, or should we say a throwing reflex, gets your core back to upright.

Your throwing reflexes call upon your body’s self-correcting tendencies to bring your throwing hand through a very sustainable and extremely productive release window.

Here’s your bottom-line … when your movements keep your core vertical into your foot plant, you can always expect your ball to travel directly into your target. 

Here’s the good news.

The Pro Pitching Institute prioritizes the movements you need to keep your core vertical into your foot plant.  In the end, by following the process outlined at the Pro Pitching Institute, you motion ends with a sustainable throwing reflex. Once mastered, instead of using strikes or stats to measure your results, you use your ability to deliver every fastball directly into your Catcher’s target to measure your core alignment.

Tell a friend! Have a friend struggling with their fastball command? Make sure to tell them about the Pro Pitching Institute.

Skip Fast
Freelance Pitching Coach
E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-281-2596

#ElitebyChoice

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