Proper Footwork Promotes Location

Two different footwork approaches in throwing mechanics highlight the importance of proper footwork for efficient power transfer and accuracy.

Wide Front Foot Drawbacks

Your front foot wider than your shoulders leads to your back knee being directly over or in front of your back foot.

When you lift your front foot for the throw, your unbalanced weight ends up over your back foot.

Balance is regained only when your front foot hits the ground, but your throwing arm is already isolated and acting alone to deliver the ball.

Your lack of connection with your lower body means you lose the benefit of efficient power transfer, and the target area expands significantly.

Back Knee Behind Back Foot Benefits

Starting with your heels together and your knees bent position your back knee behind your back foot.

When you lift your front foot for the throw, your leg movement positions your front foot to the home plate side of your front hip.

Your lower body movement through your front leg lift prompts your glove arm to initiate the throwing action.

The coordinated movement between your lower body and glove arm leads to throws that hit your target with uncanny regularity.

Getting Your Glove Hand Involved

The Pro Pitching Institute teaches your foot position to prompt your throw, or your instruction is free … No questions… No hassles… and no hard feelings.

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Pitching – You’re one foot away from better command.

Pitching aside … How do your foot placements impact your arms?

• ·         When your feet are wider than your hips, to get any one foot off the ground, you’re forced to shift your weight over your back-foot.
• ·         With all your weight over your back foot, to move anywhere, you must take a “step”.
• ·         Your “step” shifts your weight away from your back foot and, to keep you from hurting yourself, your opposite arm spontaneously moves up and away from your body.

How does something as simple as your foot placements relate to your throwing arm?

• ·         When you begin your motion with your feet too far apart, to take your front foot off the ground, you're forced to shift your weight over your back-foot.
• ·         With your weight over your back foot, to move your body toward your target, you must “stride”.
• ·         Your “stride” shifts your weight toward your target and, as an uncontrollable reaction, your throwing arm moves away from your body.
• ·         No matter the throwing arm path you want your arm to take, your throwing arm takes on a life of its own and will position itself relative to your “stride” tempo.

How can you use your foot placements to shrink your target area?

• ·         When you begin your motion with your feet one baseball width apart, your throwing arm won’t be as involved with your balance as with a wider stance.
• ·         Without doing anything else, because your foot placements keep your throwing arm available to respond to your lower body, you’ll automatically see your worst misses finishing closer to your intended target.

If you want to continue shrinking your target area to the size of your Catcher’s mitt, contact us.

Skip Fast

Expert Pitching Coach
Professional Pitching Institute

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E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
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Is your pitching vision of “great” just “ordinary”?

Great slow-motion pitching videos.

“Great” is having your slow-motion pitching video look like this … 

1. Out of your front leg lift, you open your glove side shoulder to get... 

2. Your front foot to make contact with the ground which... 
3. Rotates your lower body which...  
4. Spontaneously brings your throwing hand into release. 
Every multiple-year Cy Young winning motion shows this sequence and, because their throwing arms to react to their lower body movement, are known for consistently keeping their Teams close enough to win.   

"Ordinary" slow-motion pitching videos.

1. Out of your front leg lift, you move down the mound. 
2. You land your foot plant then...
3. You throw the ball. 

These elite Pitchers finish their front leg lift with their weight stabilized in front of their back foot. Your Coach lets you end your front leg lift with your weight moving over your back foot. Your Coach forces your slow-motion video to look as "ordinary" as everyone else? 

Pitching confusion.

You’re confused?  You move exactly the way your Coach wants, you do what everyone else does, yet you still struggle to produce results you know have in you and, despite constantly working on "stuff", rarely see sustained improvement?  

Improvement is within reach by making a simple phone call to an Accountable Pitching Coach! 

Skip Fast,  Alliance of Accountable Pitching Coaches 
Chief Learning Officer 
Web: www.propitchinginstitute.com/pitching-alliance.html  
E-mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com 
Cell or Text: 856-524-3248 

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Accountable Pitching Coaches promote early rotation.

Pitching rotation.

There’s only one way to make your throwing action into a spontaneous reaction to your lower body movements... rotate your lower body before your front foot hits the ground.

Pitching inefficiency.

With both feet on the ground, to get any hip movement, an Accountable Coach understands your throwing side shoulder needs to pull your back hip forward.  An Accountable Pitching Coach who sees this happen instantly recognizes, instead of your throwing arm reacting to your lower body movements, your independent throwing arm action makes you much less effective than you can be.

Effective pitching responses.

However, for an Accountable Coach to get your throwing arm to instinctively respond to your lower body gyrations, he positions your body to rotate before your front foot hits the ground.  By doing this, an Accountable Coach gives you one option… he’s forcing a spontaneous throwing arm reaction to bring your throwing hand through a surprisingly sustainable and very competitive release window.

Feel like you miss your target over the plate too often? Feel like your opponent controls you? Feel like you’re always working on your arm slot?  … then, to make your throwing action a spontaneous reaction to your lower body movements, spend a half hour with an Accountable Coach.

Skip Fast, Alliance of Accountable Pitching Coaches

Executive Director
Web: www.propitchinginstitute.com/pitching-alliance.html E-mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com

Cell or Text: 856-524-3248

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Forward momentum sends your pitching backwards

Science has a greater impact on your pitching than you realize.

The Science of Pitching

Your Inner Ear

Your inner ear triggers your “fight or flight” response that, the instant any movement works against the earth’s gravitational forces, gets your body back in balance.

Applying Science to Your Pitching

Driving off the rubber.

Your back-leg drive working against gravity tells your inner ear to trigger your “fight or flight” which uses your arms to get your body back in balance.  

Your stride into your foot strike.

Your “fight or flight” response continues to use your arms to balance your body.

Your foot strike.

Your “fight or flight” response uses your back leg to offset your forward momentum.

Your Throwing action and command.

The drag from your back leg on your throwing arm means you’ve lost control over your throwing arm path.

Your Pitching solution.

We teach our students how to lift their front leg and move into their foot strike without pushing against gravity.  From there, we let science force your “fight or flight” response to bring your throwing hand through very sustainable and consistently tiny release window.

Skip Fast,
Director – National Coaching Network

Professional Pitching Institute

Web: www.propitchinginstitute.com 
E-mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-524-3248

Fear of Failure Creates Failure

Why Fear of Failure Creates Failure?

Science has a greater impact on your pitching than you realize.

The Science
Your Inner Ear

Your inner ear monitors your head alignment and, when not level, tells your body to use your arms to get your head back to level.

Sympathetic nervous system
Your sympathetic nervous system uses a “fight or flight” response to keep your body in balance.

How the Science Applies

Fear drives your actions

You fear of an unacceptable next pitch result becomes your lens to your world. Your battle for an acceptable next pitch moves you into "fight" mode.

You “fight” disconnects your sympathetic nervous system from the universal forces influencing the way your inner ear interprets your balance.  Your “fight” response doesn't care what you want to do, but your inner ear says to your body “we need to physically react."

Eliminate Fear

Every outing turns into a series of short-term emergencies.  Eventually, you start looking away from your “fight” response and begin looking toward “flight” response.  Your “flight” resolves the conflict between your “fight or flight” mechanism and the way your inner ear reads your movements.

Your “flight” takes you to a quiet place. During “flight”, you synchronize your movements to use natural forces to influence your inner ear to produce a totally spontaneous and very repeatable throwing action.

Guaranteed Success

By letting science drive your pitching plan, you’re guaranteed to seamlessly and effortlessly produce the high-level results you’ve been searching for all along.

Skip Fast,
Director – National Coaching Network

Professional Pitching Institute

Web: www.propitchinginstitute.com 
E-mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-524-3248

Copyright © 2017, The Pro Pitching Institute.

Out-of- balance pitching balance

Science has a greater impact on your pitching than you realize.

The physical nature of “balance”.

A cylinder resting on one end is in “balance”, but push the top of the cylinder past its base and gravity tips the cylinder over.  

Gravity

Your inner ear constantly monitors your head alignment.  When your inner ear senses your head isn’t level, to get your head back to level, your inner ear instantly takes control of your arms.

How your body deals with your state of “balance” Front Knee

When your front knee comes even with or behind your bellybutton, you balance your weight over your back foot. To move toward your target, you do something to shift your upper body weight to the home plate side your back foot.

Disruptive Throwing action

Your weight shift tilts your head and forces your inner ear to use your throwing arm to get your head back to level. Only after you get your head back of level, which happens at foot strike, can you use your throwing arm to complete your delivery. Your throwing arm works by itself, expands your release window and means you to lose control of where your ball will finish.

The Solution

Use your movements into your front leg lift to keep your head level as you move toward the plate which turns your throwing action into a spontaneous response and gives you the command you need to succeed at the highest levels.

Skip Fast,
Director – National Coaching Network

Professional Pitching Institute

Web: www.propitchinginstitute.com
E-mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-524-3248

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The Pro Pitching Institute Coaching Network Guarantees Sustainable Success

The Pro Pitching Institute Coaching Network Guarantees Sustainable Success

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How does our Network help Pitchers?
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The Pro Pitching Institute is expanding their Coaching Network with Coaches who recognize, but struggle to harness, the power of the recurring patterns they know exist within a pitching motion. The Pro Pitching Institute trains every National Coaching Network Coach to use these repetitive patterns to produce the unprecedented ball control that readily designates them as the top Pitching Coach in their area. 

Skip Fast,
National Coaching Network Director

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