ACTION-REACTION MANAGEMENT PRODUCES COMMAND

In nature, actions and reactions come in Pairings. Pitching is simply finding a way to manage your action-reaction pairings to bring your throwing hand through the same productive release window on every pitch.

Action-Reaction pairings are easy to miss.

Everything you see within your motion is both an action and a reaction. Trying to change your action-reaction pairings without addressing your foot placements turns into a complete waste of time.

Disruptive Action-Reaction Pairings

Let’s look at how your action-reaction pairings fail to bring your throwing hand through the same productive release window on every pitch.

• Your foot placements (action) force you to end your front leg lift with your weight over your back foot (reaction).
• By ending your front leg lift with your weight over your back foot (action), to move down the mound, you shift your weight toward your target (reaction).
• You shift your weight toward your target (action) and gravity uses your throwing arm to balance your stride (reaction).
• You continue to use your throwing arm for balance (action) until your front foot gets back on the ground and your legs rebalance your weight between your knees (reaction).
• With both feet on the ground, your glove side shoulder moving back (action) powers your throwing arm moving forward (reaction).
• With your upper body working by itself (action), your shoulders tilt within a given range (reaction).
• Your shoulder tilt (action) means you never truly know with any certainty where any one pitch ends up (reaction).
  

Constructive Action-Reaction Pairings

Now, let’s look at the action-reaction pairings that bring your throwing hand through the same productive release window on every pitch.

• Your foot placements (action) force you to end your front leg lift with your weight centered between your knees (reaction).
• With one foot on the ground and your weight centered between your knees, your glove side shoulder moving back (action) powers your back hip forward (reaction).
• Your back hip coming forward (action) demands your front foot reconnects with the ground (reaction).
• Your front foot reconnecting with the ground (action) causes your lower body to stop rotating (reaction).
• Your foot plant stopping your lower body rotation (action) forces your lower body to whip your throwing arm into release (reaction).
• Your throwing arm whip (action) brings your throwing hand through an easily repeated and extremely productive release window (reaction).
  

Here’s the good news.

The Pro Pitching Institute freely presents the foot placements that’ll bring your throwing hand through a very sustainable and extremely productive release window. No matter where you live, we skillfully use on-line communication tools to make you a better pitcher than you ever dreamed possible.

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Skip Fast
Freelance Professional Pitching Coach
E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
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