Pitching: Combining the Biological with the Physical

Understanding physical balance.

To demonstrate your body’s drive to stay in balance, picture a bowl and a marble.

Gravity positions the marble at the bottom of the bowl. Every time you move the marble away from this position gravity always returns the marble to the bowl’s center of balance.

When you lift one side of the bowl, gravity moves the marble to a different position within the bowl. When you bring the bowl back to level, the marble moves back to the bowl’s center of balance.

Understanding biological balance.

Obviously, your body is more reactive than a couple of inanimate objects like the bowl and marble, but, surprisingly, your inner ear gets your body to act very much like the ball and bowl.

Your inner ear constantly monitors gravity’s impact of your body. To keep your weight (the marble) centered between your feet (the bowl), your inner ear automatically rearranges your arm, legs and torso positions.

Understanding balance and your front leg lift.

The instant your front foot comes off the ground your inner ear interprets gravity’s impact on your body.

Your inner ear positions your weight (the marble) over your back foot (a small bowl).

Ending your front leg lift with your weight directly over your back foot ends your front leg lift in an unstable, yet balanced, position. To move out of this less-than-stable position, you forced to create a controlled free fall.

Your free fall triggers your inner ear to use your throwing arm to get your body back in balance. Let this happen and you never know where any one pitch ends up?

Efficient gravity management.

There is one other bowl and marble option that creates movement while the marble stays in the center of the bowl. You rotate the bowl around the marble.

The progression featured on the ProPitchingInstitute.com web site mirrors this final scenario. You end front leg lift with your weight (the marble) in the same position as it was before your front foot left the ground and, by throwing through your target, gravity brings your throwing hand through a very productive and extremely sustainable release window.

By using your body to mimic nature’s physical rules, you expect to throw strikes!

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Anytime your weight shifts, your mind quickly picks up gravity’s threat to your stability and makes the necessary adjustments proven to bring your weight back to center.

“Hoping” you do well

In your current pitching motion, 2 weight shifts invite gravity to control your movements.

1. With your current foot placements, gravity ends your front leg lift with your weight centered over your back foot.

(With your weight centered over your back foot, gravity forces you to shift your weight toward your target.)

2.When you shift your weight toward your target, gravity uses your throwing arm to stabilize your foot plant.

A balanced foot plant means there’s no physical reason for your throwing arm to deliver the ball into your target. That said, your throwing action becomes a separate movement and you can only “hope” the ball goes where you want?

“Expecting” to do well

The simple front leg lift presented on the ProPitchingInstitute.com web site whips your throwing hand through the same tiny release window on every pitch.

When you expect to deliver every pitch into your intended target, gravity uses your throwing arm action to get your body back in balance.

1.  Your foot placements neutralize any weight shifts into your front leg lift.

2. From the top of your front leg lift, you use a throwing action to trigger a lower body rotation.

3. Your lower body rotation forces a foot plant that gives gravity the same message on every pitch … use your throwing arm action to get your body back in balance.

Gravity stabilizes your body by forcing your throwing arm action to travel through the same tiny release window on every pitch.

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Cell or Text: 856-281-2596

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Become a superior pitching force.

Truth be told, your motion looks the same as everyone else. There’s nothing within your motion that’ll tell any recruiter they can’t live another day without having you on their roster. 

Just like everyone else, you move down the mound, you land in your “power position” and your lower body involvement is your throwing arm pulling your back hip forward. 

Just like everyone else, you have no idea where any pitch is going to end up, your stats are inflated by hitters who are still learning to hit failing to drive your misses and the only thing driving your success is your ability to overcome your failures. 

Distinguishing yourself boils down to your coaching 

Have you ever considered how every pitching coach focuses on your movements as you move down the mound and never stresses your body position at the top your front leg lift? 

Think about how ...  Your body works as a single unit where your mind reads how gravity impacts your stability and, based upon the instability your actions present, knows which one of a thousand movement patterns will instantaneously stabilize your body. 

When you think in these terms, you realize ... 

Your foot placements determine your stability at the top of your front leg lift and your front leg lift stability sets the stage for the torso alignment, throwing arm path and stride length combinations that ultimately dictate your pitch release window. 

Finally, know this...  There is ONE AND ONLY ONE front leg lift position guaranteed to use JUST your throwing arm action to stabilize your body which, by plan, forces gravity to bring your throwing hand through the same release window on every pitch. 

To get into this ONE AND ONLY front leg lift position, you ...  1. Place your feet one baseball width apart. 2. Flex your knees and then place your back knee over the little toes on your back foot. 3. Lift your front knee up to and in line with your front shoulder. 4. Once you complete your front leg lift, throw the ball “through”, not “to”, your target. 

These 4 simple movements represent a very manageable coaching alternative that, by forcing gravity to use your throwing arm action to quickly (enhanced velocity) and efficiently (sustainability) stabilize your body, uses your lower body to throw strikes. 

Attracting attention! 

By using gravity to deliver each pitch into your intended target, you show recruiters one synchronized delivery that evaluators always dream they’ll find. 

You can waste your pitching career “hoping” to attract attention or you can use the 4 simple skills presented© to attract high-level talent evaluators.  

To jump-start your pitching future, visit the ProPitchingInstitute.com web site. 

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How would you do against better hitters?

Anytime you deliver the ball directly into a target placed in an unhittable spot with late movement and with an arm speed that makes the pitch look like a fast ball, your opponent will struggle to make solid contact with the pitch.

How often do you miss your target over the plate?

Mature hitters wait for you to miss your target over the plate.

When, as you move down the mound, gravity uses your throwing arm to offset your forward movement, your release window changes from one pitch to the next and the likelihood you miss your target over the plate increases.

When gravity ends your delivery by using your throwing arm action to stabilize your body, gravity brings your throwing hand through the same tiny release window on every pitch and you’re less likely to miss your target over the plate.

How much late ball movement does each pitch produce?

To dominate, you want your opponent to think the ball will be in one location when it always ends up in a completely different location.

The more energy your throwing arm puts into every pitch, the later the ball movement.

When you land in a balanced “power position”, the energy you direct into each pitch comes from your upper body. When you use gravity to whip your throwing hand into release, you increase your throwing arm speed which creates the late ball movement that’ll challenge any hitter to make solid contact with the ball.

Do you always display fastball arm speed?

To dominate, you change your grip, you change your release and you show your opponent a fastball arm speed on every pitch. Do this and you challenge every hitter to make solid contact with each pitch.

When you land in a balance “power position”, based upon the pitch called, your arm speed will change. The change may be slight, but, to a mature hitter, even a marginal arm speed change is noticeable and enough for the hitter to know how to do some damage.

When gravity uses your throwing arm action to stabilize your body, no matter the pitch called or the hitter’s maturity, your opponent always thinks a fastball is coming.

Stats and isolated performances produce false reads.

Good stats and superior performances are great, but to see these same results at the next level, you need to know how to use gravity to produce superior location, later ball movement and the perception of a fastball arm speed to keep every hitter off-balance on every pitch.

You can spend years trying to do this or you can use the freely available recommendations^© at the ProPitchingInstitute.com to make this happen literally overnight.

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

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