Comparisons breed frustration.

It’s human nature to compare, compete and measure your success against the accomplishments of others.

Most believe, when you copy a successful pitching motion, pitching success is yours ...or is it?

Comparisons are unfair.

You know yourself better than you know anyone else.

As a result, you compare the worst of you against the best of others.

You set out trying to do the impossible … make your actions duplicate another person’s reactions.

Your competition isn’t against others.

In pitching, your only competition is you.

To be the best pitching version of yourself, you need to stop these foolish comparisons from robbing you of your energy, your focus, and your pitching career.

In the moment, you might think you’re doing the right thing, but eventually you’ll come to understand what a waste of time it is trying to copy someone else.

Your battle isn’t against others. Your war is within your own heart, your mind, and your soul.

Compete against yourself and the path to your pitching dreams becomes clear.

Compete Against Yourself

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The Way You Measure Your Changes Can Hold You Back!

 

If you’re like most Pitchers, you measure the changes you make to your motion by tracking your results.

Trying to improve your results by measuring your results doesn’t make sense???

A Better Measurement

Let’s work backwards into a more realistic measurement.

1. Improved results come from your lower body sending your pitch into your target.

2. To get your lower body to pull your throwing arm into release, your lower body must rotate into the end of your stride.

3. To end your stride with a lower body rotation, you must come out of your front leg lift opening your front shoulder to your target.

4. To open your front shoulder out of your front leg lift, you must end your front leg lift with your weight balanced between your knees.

Therefore, when you make your weight distribution at the top of your front leg lift your sole focus, you can count on your results to quickly and permanently improve.

Need Help with Your Results?

The Pro Pitching Institute teaches the 3 simple movements guaranteed to end your front leg lift with your weight between your knees.

Want to simplify your pitching motion while you permanently improve results? Contact us.

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Your Inner Ear Determines Your Pitching Results

 

Your inner ear doesn’t care about your results.  It only cares about your balance.

Your inner ear constantly monitors your balance, continually sends your brain balance updates, and, to make sure you stay in balance, lets your mind commandeer your body parts.

Your inner ear turns pitching into a very black and white activity.

One choice is your inner ear realizes your body is in balance. In this instance, your inner ear frees your throwing arm to automatically send your pitches directly into your target.

The other choice is that your inner ear senses an imbalance. In this case, your inner ear  uses your throwing arm to keep your body in balance and, because your inner ear took control of your arm path, you never know with any certainty where any one pitch will end up.

With a focus on how your movements impact your inner ear, you develop a sustainable roadmap to pitching success.

There IS no middle ground.

Your movements either maintain your balance or create an imbalance. There is no middle ground.

This tells you there’s one, and only one, movement pattern that’ll get your inner ear to deliver your pitches where you want.

Control Your Inner Ear.

When your pitches regularly miss your target by an unacceptable distance, your inner ear is using your throwing arm for balance.

Unlike any pitching program anywhere, by helping you manage the signals your movements send to your inner ear, we guarantee you’ll produce the results you need to fulfill your wildest pitching dreams.

Want to know more? visit the Pro Pitching Institute.

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Stop “Feeling” for Your Target

 

Fact: Your throwing action is a result of your body self-correcting your weight transfers.

Most Pitchers search for a “feel”

A Pitcher’s “feel” is the sensation they experience between their weight transfer out of their front leg lift and their throwing action.

If you’re like most Pitchers, when you experience the result you want, you associate your result with a “feel”.

Find the right “feel” and your throwing arm sends your pitches directly into your intended target. Struggle to find the “feel” you want, and your throwing arm takes on a life of its own.

Elite Pitchers Don’t “Feel”, They Know.

Elite Pitchers come into their stride without having to shift their weight.

Instead, they generate a rotational force where they make their body end their stride with a glove side weight shift.

Elite Pitchers rely on their natural instincts to self-correct their glove side weight shift and automatically send their pitches directly into their target.

Their physical movement patterns remove the need to “feel” a productive arm slot and, as such, they can expect their pitches to go where they want and behave the way they expect.

Stop Searching and Start Doing

Lost as to where your journey to producing elite results begins? Visit the Pro Pitching Institute.

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Are You a Behavior or Results Driven Pitcher?

 

“Behavior Driven Pitchers” Excel

“Behavior Driven Pitchers’” hand separations initiate their stride, their stride prompts their throwing action and their throwing action gets each pitch to travel directly into their intended target.

“Behavior Driven Pitchers” trust their body to help them succeed in a sport build around failure.

So much so that when a “Behavior Driven Pitcher” misses their target over the plate, they know their body puts so much late stage ball movement on the pitch that even professional Hitters will struggle to drive the ball.

“Results Driven Pitchers” Hope to Excel

As “Results Driven Pitchers” move down the mound, they use their throwing arm to keep their body in balance.

 “Results Driven Pitchers” fail to realize or don’t want to accept the fact that once they begin to move down the mound, they’ve lost control of their throwing arm path.

Consequently, “Results Driven Pitchers” waste their valuable time trying to find a throwing arm path (they can’t control) to produce the results they want.

Much like a dog chasing his tail, if you're a “Results Driven Pitcher”, until you change your focus from your results to your behaviors, your pitching career goes in circles.

Get Your Behaviors to Produce Your Results

Our programs produce “Behavior Driven Pitchers”. Want to join this elite group, but don’t know how? Visit the Pro Pitching Institute.

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Why Do Elite Pitchers Outperform Everyone Else?

An example of beginning your stride THEN separating your hands.

There are two categories of Pitchers in the World.

There are ...

1. The Elite Big-League Pitcher who can expect their pitches to travel directly into their target.

2. Everyone else.

What do Elite Pitchers do that others don’t?

Watch any elite Big-League Pitcher and you see a Pitcher who begins their hand separation at the same time they begin their stride.

Why does this happen? When your hand separation occurs at the same time you stride, you allow your lower body to produce the Big-League fastball command needed to challenge Big-League Hitters to reach base.

What does Everyone Else do?

Watch any Pitcher who begins their stride then separates their hands and you’re watching a Pitcher who can’t establish their fastball.

Why does this happen? When you stride out of your front leg lift, you naturally use your throwing arm to offset your forward weight shift. When you see your hands separating after you begin your stride, you know you’re using your throwing arm for balance, you’re forcing your throwing arm to always catch up with your body and, consequently you can’t know with any certainty where any one pitch will end up.

Become an Elite Pitcher.

We teach Pitchers how to separate their hands at the same time they stride. As a result, they can expect to deliver their pitches directly into their target and, consequently, keep their Team close enough to win each game they pitch.

Want to know more? Let’s talk.

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How you’re innocently blocking your improvement?

What you know.

You spend a huge chunk your life with both feet touching the ground.

What you don’t realize is that your subconscious is continually monitoring your balance, constantly using your legs to balance your body and, when in balance, allows you to move anyway you want, anytime you want.

Because your subconscious makes your balance seem so natural and automatic, you come to believe you have complete control over your movements.

There are different rules when one foot comes off the ground.

When balanced on one foot, it’s easy to believe you have the same total control over your actions as you do on 2 feet, but this can’t be further from the truth.

When perched on one foot, to compensate for your other leg not being there to balance your body, your subconscious begins manipulating your arms, legs and torso.

Every time your subconscious goes into this balancing routine, you lose conscious control of your movements. Only when your subconscious senses your body is back in balance do you have the 2-legged control over your movements that you’re used to.

In  the process, by thinking you can move the same way with one foot on the ground as with two, you destroy your pitching results, shorten your pitching career and risk throwing arm distress.

Why you can’t succeed?

In theory, based upon the way you know your body works with both feet anchored on the ground, there seems to be no justifiable reason you can’t bring your throwing hand through the same productive release point on every pitch.

However, when you treat the way your body works on one-foot the same as with both feet, you complicate your results, never know where any one pitch will end up and make trial-and-error the foundation for any improvement you might see.

We teach success.

Trial-and-error is the least direct path to the pitching legacy you dream of having. However, virtually overnight, every movement in the “Winning Pitch Location Strategy^©” uses your one-leg posture to take your throwing hand through the same productive release point on every pitch.

Want to achieve your pitching dreams? Contact me.

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What you don’t know that you need to know?

Your body is driven to keep itself in balance.

It’s how and when you achieve your balance that determines your pitching legacy.

Understanding what you see.

When you stride, to complete your delivery, 3 things must happen.

First, your body uses your arms to offset your forward weight shift. Next, you complete your stride. 

Finally, your legs bring your weight back to center.

To the naked eye, it looks like, the instant your front foot makes contact with the ground, you immediately begin your throwing action.

The fact is that, because your unconscious mind works 50,000 times faster than you can think, you can’t physically complete your motion until your mind stops using your arms for balance.

Once your body doesn’t need your arms for balance, as a separate and unsupported action, you’re able to complete your delivery.

When you feel a productive throwing arm tempo, you locate your pitches. When you can’t find a rhythm, you can only hope your opponent helps you get through your outing.

What you want to do!

Location begins with balance. When your body is in balance, your arms are free to move the way you want.

Before you end your stride, your movements must signal your mind that your weight is centered between your knees.

From this balanced position, you open your front shoulder to your target. This simple action lets your upper body rotation activate your lower body, your lower body to force your stride and, to get your body back in balance, your stride to use your upper body to maximize your location, throwing arm speed and ball movement.

Instead of balance standing in the way of your location, you use your body’s hardwired circuits to bring your throwing hand through the same productive release window on every pitch.

What’s your pitching legacy?

Trial-and-error isn’t the least direct path to the pitching legacy you dream of having. However, virtually overnight, every movement in the “Winning Pitch Location Strategy^©” turns your pitching dream into an achievable reality.

Want to achieve your pitching dreams? Contact me.

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How your location impacts your throwing arm health?

Your shoulder and hip alignments at foot plant determine whether you expect your ball to travel into your target or hope your ball go where you want. 

The first option means your throwing arm is injury resistant. The latter makes you very injury prone.

At foot plant, your shoulders and hips are open

When you land your foot plant with your hips more open to your target than your shoulders, your body has no choice but to use your throwing action to realign your shoulders over your hips^1.1.. 

Because your throwing action is a natural reaction^1.2., your free and easy motion delivers every pitch directly into your target without doing any damage to your throwing arm ligaments.

Notes:
1.1. Your body wants to keep your hips and shoulders over one another.
1.2. Let your shoulders face in one direction and your hips in another, before you can think about moving any body part, your body automatically and instinctively uses your far arm (throwing arm) to realign your hips and shoulders.

At foot plant, your shoulders and hips are closed

When you land your foot plant with your shoulders and hips closed, your front toe will be pointing toward your target.

Your front toe pointing toward your target commands your body to open your hips^2.1..

Your front toe opening your hips and prompts your shoulders to begin their realignment process^2.2.. Your realigning process begins of your throwing action.

Notes:
2.1. Every movements alters your shoulder/hip alignments.
2.2 As soon as you move, your body instantly works to realign your shoulders and hips.
2.3. You interrupt this realignment process and small ligament tears and fraying begin to form in your far arm (throwing arm).

Here’s your problem … your front-toe-generated hip rotation determines your body’s natural arm slot^2.2.. When your natural arm slot fails to produce the results you need to be competitive, to produce more acceptable results, you interrupt your natural alignment process^2.3. Changing your natural arm slot^2.3. begins generating the small throwing arm ligament tears and fraying that makes you extremely injury prone.

Injury resistant throwing action are here!

When you follow our “Winning Pitch Location Strategy^©”, you end your stride with your shoulders and hips open to your target and, by doing this, you turn your throwing action into a naturally healthy and location-producing reaction.

Want to know more? Contact me.

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Overnight Command

How you manage gravity shapes your results

Have you ever considered that your body is an interconnected system where your mind reads gravity’s impact on your body and knows to pick a movement combination that’ll get your body back in balance in the quickest and most efficient way?

Now consider this … gravity uses your foot placements to determine your body position at the top of your front leg lift, then gravity uses your front leg lift position to decide which one of hundreds of thousands of movement sequences it needs to get your body back in balance.

Hundreds of thousands of foot placements cause gravity to end your front leg lift with your weight over your back foot, but there is ONE AND ONLY ONE foot placement variation that ends your front leg lift with your weight centered between your knees.

That’s where the Pro Pitching Institute adds value.

Best case scenario.
When you end your front leg lift with your weight centered between your knees and then literally try to throw the ball through your receiver’s target, you guarantee gravity uses your throwing arm action to get your body back in balance.

By plan, gravity brings your throwing hand through the same tiny release window on every pitch you throw.

When you know how to let gravity drive each pitch into your intended target, you confidently cancel out patience as a hitter’s tool and find yourself challenging even the most mature hitters to make solid contact with each and every pitch you throw.

What typically happens.
By ending your front leg lift with your weight over your back foot, every gravity-driven movement pattern ends in a “power position” (feet on the ground and your weight centered between your feet).

Since your “power position” represents a balanced posture, your throwing arm is free to move anyway you want. Therefore, you’re able to use your last pitch results to determine your next pitch arm slot.

Since the arm slot you want will always conflict with the way gravity reads your “power position” body alignment, your ball rarely ends up where you want.

When your pitching plan revolves around your last pitch results determining your next pitch arm slot, you can only hope to be competitive against extra patient and more mature hitters.

The Pro Pitching Institute Teaches Command

You can spend years trying to discover the footwork that’ll end your front leg lift with your weight centered between your knees or you can use the ProPitchingInstitute.com “Building Blocks” to make this happen literally overnight.

Tell a friend! Have a friend whose release window changes from one pitch to the next? Make sure to tell them about the Pro Pitching Institute.

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Mindful Command!

The way your body works …

• Your mind is hardwired to keep your centered between your feet.
• The instant your mind senses any weight shift, your mind tells your body how it must move to get your weight back to center.
• Actions only occurs after your mind believes your weight is centered between your feet.

Productively Sustainable Release Windows

When, at the top of your front leg lift, you fool your mind into thinking your weight is centered between your feet (a combination of Pro Pitching Institute “Building Blocks” 1-5), you’re able to come out of your front leg lift throwing the ball through your target (Pro Pitching Institute “Building Blocks” 6).

The act of throwing the ball through your target causes your body to rotate down the mound.

When you rotate, because your weight is no longer centered between your feet. Your mind demands you get your front foot back on the ground.

The instant your foot plant interrupts your lower body rotation, your mind instantly self-corrects your imbalance by whipping your throwing arm forward and across your body and your throwing hand through the same tiny release window on every pitch.

Your Unpredictable Release Window

Your front leg lift forces you to shift your weight from the rubber toward the plate.

As your body moves from back-to-front, your mind use your throwing arm to slow your movement down the mound.

Once your front foot gets back on the mound, your legs center your weight between your feet.

As far as your mind is concerned, it's done its job. With your weight is centered between your feet, your next action is to complete your delivery.

Because you placed your body in a position where your throwing action is unrelated to any other action, your release window changes from one pitch to the next.

How can you expect your next pitch to go where you expect?

The Pro Pitching Institute freely supplies you with the 6 “Building Blocks” proven to whip your throwing hand through a consistently tiny release window on every pitch.

Tell a friend! Have a friend whose release window changes from one pitch to the next? Make sure to tell them about the Pro Pitching Institute.

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LET’S GET REAL ABOUT COMMAND!

Baseball’s Artificial Reality

The baseball community misleads and deceives you into thinking velocity will get you where you want.

Therefore, the baseball community’s artificial consensus turns velocity into a manufactured reality.

Don’t get us wrong, velocity WILL get you notice, but it’s command that guarantees a long and prosperous pitching career. 

How do you measure command?

Just like velocity, command is a black-and-white observation. Did the ball travel directly into your target or didn’t it?

You measure command as the ratio of pitches traveling directly into your target compared to the total pitches thrown.

The higher the ratio, the more effective you are as a Pitcher.

How did velocity become an artificial reality?

Because Pitching Coaches don’t know how to teach command, they’re not going to measure something they can’t teach.

Velocity is easy to measure and, as such, becomes a Pitching Coach’s go to measurement.

What’s Your Reality?

 When you pitch professionally, everyone around you throws as hard as you. It’s at this point that command separates the “haves” from the “have nots”.

When you execute your pitch directly into your target, the professional hitter you’re facing is less likely to drive the ball.

Without command, you risk missing your target over the plate, the hitter driving the ball and your Team asking someone with command to replace you.

Unfair, but true.

Your Pitching Coach is going to teach velocity, not command.

It’s unfair and your chances of success are slim, but to achieve your pitching dreams, you become responsible for teaching yourself something your Pitching Coach can’t.

Here’s the good news.

The Pro Pitching Institute teaches command. No matter where you live, we skillfully use Facebook Messenger to make you indispensable to your Coach and your Team.

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Pro Pitching Institute Blog - Automate Your Command

How your body works.

• Your body is hard wired to keep your weight centered between your feet.
• When your weight shifts from center, your body dictates your movements.
• When your weight is centered between your feet, you’re free to move your arms anyway you want.

Is your command something you do?

Performing your pitching motion in slow speed quickly answers this question.

• When, as your front foot hits the ground, your movements stop, your body is telling you your weight is centered between your feet.
• With your weight centered between your feet, your throwing arm is now free to complete your delivery.
• In these instances, your throwing action becomes less-than-automatic.
• As a secondary action, your command rightfully suffers.

A fair question is “why, when you do your motion at full speed, does your throwing action seem to be automatic?”

• At full speed, you bring movement down the mound into the equation.
• Your body still centers your weight between your feet, but, as it does, your body senses your movement down the mound.
• To stop your movement down the mound and re-center your weight, your body asks you to make a throwing action.
• Unless you develop a “feel” for that day’s motion, your throwing hand comes through multiple release windows.
• Consequently, you never really know where your next pitch is going to end up.

Is your command something that automatically happens?

Performing your pitching motion in slow speed quickly answers this question.

• When you can’t help but end your slow-motion pitching delivery with a throwing action, your body is using your throwing arm movement to get your weight back to center.
• This spontaneous throwing action brings your throwing hand through the same tiny release window on every pitch.
• Your command becomes an involuntary reaction.

When you automate your throwing action, even at full speed, your body brings your throwing hand through a very productive and extremely competitive release window.

Every “what” deserves a “how”.

To discover how to automate a consistently productive release window, visit the Pro Pitching Institute.

No excuses, only reasons.

There’s no excuse for not programming your throwing action. Your first step to removing this tragic flaw is to pick up your cell phone, call “Skip” at 856-281-2596 and schedule your FREE 20-minute, Pro Pitching Institute Pitching Session.

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How exceptional pitchers start!

This blog tells you how to permanently eliminate
this very slight upper body tilt.

A consistently small target window is essential to your pitching success. Your success begins with the way your “fight or flight response” interprets your movements into your starting position.

An exceptional ending tells you how to begin.

At the end of your stride, to categorically outperform other pitchers, you create a 3-dimensional reaction where, to get your body back in balance,  your subconscious forces you to make a throwing (re)action. You make this happen by coming into your stride with ...

1. 1 Your hips already level,
2. Your upper body already vertical and  
3. Your shoulders free and ready to respond.

Your consistent and exceptional performances are driven by this 3-dimensional starting position.

Your starting position separates exceptional from ordinary.

The only difference between a fully integrated, 3-dimensional ball release and a less-effective, 1-dimensional (shoulders only) ball release is your upper body angle as you complete your starting position.

•       With a 3-dimensional starting position, you come out of your starting position with your upper body already forming the rotational axis. This type of preparation means, the instant you end your stride, your subconscious tendency to get your body back in balance means you instantaneously complete your delivery with exceptional command, maximum velocity and very late ball movement. 

•       With a 1-dimensional starting position, you move down the mound with a home-to-second upper body tilt. When you let his happen, before you can complete your motion, you force your body to bring itself back to 3-dimensional standards. These preventable adjustments generate your current pitching struggles.

How do you create a 3-dimensional starting position?

Simple … you follow these clear-cut recommendations.

1. Begin with your feet one baseball width apart.

•       By beginning your motion with your feet any wider than this, the sway produced by your front foot lift means your subconscious creates an upper body tilt. 

•       When you begin with your feet one baseball width apart, because your foot lift runs parallel to your upper body, you remain vertical.

2. Make sure you begin with a slight back knee flex.

•       Your feet can be one baseball width apart, but, because one leg is straighter than the other, when you lift your front foot, you force your subconscious to produce a slight upper body tilt. 

•       To avoid this, you simply flex your knees. Your subconscious automatically centers your weight between your feet.  This simple flex effectively eliminates any chance your subconscious senses a weight shift.

If you currently end your starting position with even a slight upper body tilt, by adding these 2 simple skills to your mound routine, your worst misses end up closer to your target than ever!

Your foot placements are just the beginning.

Bookmark this blog and, next week, we’ll go into how to end your front leg lift with your 3-dimensional body position still intact.

Let us know how you’re doing?
When you use these skills and still find yourself struggling with your command, send us a pitching motion video or attach a comment to this post. We’ll use your video and comments to resolve the foot placements and leg orientations standing in the way of you being exceptional.

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Lower body engagement isn’t something you “do”; it’s something we make “happen”!

Your current Coach does his best to teach you to engage your lower body but continually fails!

Imagine how many hours you’ve spent “trying” to “do” what you know you need to do, your Coach knows you need to “do”, but no one has ever been able to teach you.

We’re proud to be the first to present 3 insanely simple tasks that’ll engage your lower body and, best yet, we do this without asking you to change your current throwing action.

Stop “trying”, start “doing”.

Getting your lower body to drive you results can happen as soon as your very next pitch.

Before you attack the 3 skills, let’s prepare you to engage your lower body.

1.       First, to eliminate unnecessary movements, work these skills from the stretch, not the wind-up (We’ll address the wind-up in a future post). 

2.       Make sure the area just in front of the rubber is level. Should this area need some maintenance, simply use the loose dirt around the rubber to fill in front of the rubber.

Now, perform these 3 simple tasks in this order …

1.       Begin with your feet one baseball width apart. 

2.       Simultaneously lift your front leg and bend at the waist. 

3.       Deliver your pitch so hard you’ll break the webbing on your receiver’s glove.

That’s all there is? It’s really that simple!

By using these skills to get your lower body to bring your throwing hand through the a consistently tiny release window, your pitches finish closer to your target than ever and, with little to no extra effort, you produce the exceptional results you always dreamed possible.

“Biomarkers” unequivocally prove these simple skills work.

Why is this so simple?
You have control over your back-foot orientation and your foot placements. As we talked about in last week’s post, everything past these 2 actions is a “biomarker” (“biological” + “marker” = your subconscious physiological reactions). The instant you treat your physiological reactions as controllable, you make it physically impossible to have your lower body drive your results.

The back-foot orientation, foot placements and front leg lift we present force a subconscious reaction that makes it possible for you to deliver every pitch into your Catcher’s target, always keep your Team close enough to win and challenge every Opponent to drive any pitch.

Let us know how you’re doing?
When you use these skills and still find yourself struggling with your command, send us a pitching motion video or attach a comment to this post. We’ll use your video and comments to resolve the movement that’s currently blocking your lower body from driving your results.

Bookmark this post.
Moving forward, every week we’ll present ways to refine these skills and the “biomarkers” (“biological”+ “markers” – see past posts for more on this) associated with each skill.

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Pitching - Feeling balance isn’t being in balance.

Your mind wants to keep your body in balance.

For example, anytime your mind senses you’re falling, to keep you from hurting yourself, your mind instantaneously takes control of your every movement.

Being in balance.

“Being in balance” is ending your front leg lift with your weight centered between your knees.

·         At the top of your front leg lift, you can freely move your arms and legs.

·         To move down the mound, you first movement out of your front leg lift is opening your front shoulder.

·         To keep you from falling on your nose, you have no choice but to stride.

·         Because your stride interrupts your lower body rotation, you force your mind to overreact in a very productive way.

·         When you end your stride and stop your lower body rotation, not only do you completely change your body’s dynamics, but your mind receives another alert.

·         To keep from hurting yourself and to get your body back in balance, your mind forces you to make a throwing action, and, since your throwing action is an involuntary reflex, you know your body will deliver every pitch directly into your Catcher’s target.

As a spontaneous reaction, you challenge every opponent to make solid contact with any pitch you throw.

Feeling balanced.

“Feeling balanced” is ending your front leg lift with no space between your knees. To “feel balanced”, you end your front leg lift with your weight over your back foot.

·         To move down the mound, you’re forced to tilt your body toward your target.

·         The instant your mind senses this forward tilt, your mind instinctively uses your throwing arm to slow your movement down the mound.

·         As soon as your front foot gets back on the ground and your mind senses you’re no longer in danger, you can use your throwing arm to complete your delivery.

When you let this happen…

·         Your throwing action becomes a secondary, yet somewhat restricted, action.

·         Your throwing arm path is influenced by your body position at the end of your stride.

·         The conflict between the throwing arm path you want and the throwing arm path your body needs means you can't expect your ball to always end up where you want.

As an unfortunate consequence, when you challenge your body’s natural throwing arm path, you create the small ligament tears and fraying that lead to throwing arm distress.

What’s holding back your elite command?

The only thing holding you back from elite command is knowing how to end your front leg lift with your weight centered within your knees.

Teaching you how to end your front leg lift with some distance between your knees takes less than 10 minutes. If you need help with this, please contact us.

Skip Fast

Expert Pitching Coach

Professional Pitching Institute
Cell or Text: 856-524-3248

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