How Your Stride Impacts Your Pitch Location?

Strides that corrupt location

The way your body works … When you walk, one leg moves forward and the arm on the opposite side moves back. Also, once you take a step, you can’t take another step until both feet are firmly planted on the ground.

When pitching, end your front leg lift with your weight centered over your back foot and, to move toward your target, you’re forced to stride.  When you stride, just like when you walk, your body uses your throwing arm to offset your stride.

As soon as your throwing arm moves behind your body, your throwing action begins from random positions. Even worse, anytime there’s a one-inch difference in starting points from one pitch to the next, you expand your target area by seven inches.

Therefore, when you stride, your arbitrary throwing arm paths mean you never really know where any one pitch will end up?

Not striding creates location

The way your body works … When an ice skater comes out of a spin, the skater’s far arm automatically swings around their body. With the same spin rate, the instant the skater’s foot stops their spin, their body whips their far side hand through the same spot every time.

When pitching, end your front leg lift with your weight centered just in front of your back foot and you’ll be able to spin down the mound. Much like a skater, your body responds with two entirely spontaneous, location-producing reactions.

• First, your body’s urge to keep you from hurting yourself forces your front foot back on the ground.
• Second, your front foot hitting the ground stops your spin, whips your throwing arm around your body and drives your throwing hand through the same productive release point on every pitch.

In a nutshell, your location begins with your front leg lift, moves into a spin and ends with you knowing each pitch will end up where you expect.

Don’t Stride, Locate.

When you follow our “Winning Pitch Location Strategy^©”, you spin out of your front leg lift, use much less effort to produce better results and put yourself on track to surpass your wildest pitching dreams.

Want to know more? Contact me.

Skip Fast
“Winning Pitch Location Strategy^©” Coach and Mentor
E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-281-2596

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