Which kinetic pitching chain are you using?

Your "kinetic pitching chain's" origin.

Every kinetic chain revolves around your core.

Without an upright core, your body uses your arms and legs to get your core back to vertical. On the other hand, when your core is in a vertical position, you can freely use your arms and legs to move anyway you want.

People talk in general about “kinetic pitching chains”, but, unknown to most, only “closed pitching chains” produce elite results.

How a “closed kinetic pitching chain” produces elite results?

The key to a "closed kinetic pitching chain" is getting your core into an upright position and opening your front shoulder before you end your stride.

Your upright core lets you open your front shoulder. Your front shoulder action creates a separation between your hips and shoulders and, ultimately, forces you to stride. When your front foot gets back on the ground, you end up with your back hip ahead of your back shoulder. To get your shoulders and hips over one another you make a throwing action.

In a "closed kinetic pitching chain", no outside influence can impact your throwing action. Once you open your front shoulder, your throwing action becomes an involuntary reflex that regularly delivers 2 or more pitches in a row directly into your Catcher’s target with late ball movement and maximum throwing arm speed.

How an “open kinetic pitching chain” compromises your results?

When you begin your delivery with your feet too far apart or you place all your weight over your back foot, your naturally tilted core creates an "open kinetic pitching chain".

Before you can make any conscious movements, you must move your core into an upright position. You do this by moving down the mound, landing your foot plant and finally letting your body get your core back to upright.

As a secondary action and influenced by your body position at foot plant, you rotate your shoulders around your vertical core, struggle to deliver 2 consecutive pitches into your Catcher’s mitt and frantically search for ways to display better command.

Elite results are simple.

Keeping your core upright prior to your foot plant requires a couple of simple adjustments. If you can’t find anyone to teach you how to produce a “closed pitching chain”, contact me to find out how it’s done.

Skip Fast

Pitch Location Expert
Professional Pitching Institute

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The Pitcher you see is the Pitcher you are.

A “2-Pitch Performance Threshold” cuts through the clutter to give you a very accurate, exceptionally reliable and extremely insightful look into your pitching.

Your “2-Pitch Performance Threshold” simply calculates the frequency with which you deliver 2 pitches in a row directly into your Catcher’s target.

You begin each pitch intending to deliver your pitch into your target with the movement your Team expects. Your "2-Pitch Performance Threshold" counts the number of times you accomplish what you set out to do.

- An engaged lower body means you perform above the “2-Pitch Performance Threshold”.
When you show you can execute 2 pitches in a row into your Catcher's target, not only do you perform above the "2-Pitch Performance Threshold", but you’ve grown to trust your lower body to command every pitch into your target all the time.
- Without your lower body influencing your throwing action, you’re going to perform below the “2-Pitch Performance Threshold” all the time.
Luck aside, when you can't execute 2 pitches in a row into your Catcher's target, not only do you live below the "2-Pitch Performance Threshold", but you’re frantically trying to figure out the skills all "2-Pitch Performance Threshold" pitchers already know.

A "2-Pitch Performance Threshold" subtly measures much more than pitch command.

         Your command is above the 2-pitch threshold when you rely on your body to spontaneously deliver every pitch very close to your target all the time or

Your command is below the 2-pitch threshold when you have even the slightest concern your next pitch will miss your target over the plate.

Your velocity is at its max when you clear your front shoulder as you finish your stride or
Your velocity is below your max when, to remain competitive, you need to finish your stride with your front shoulder pointing toward your target.

Your ball movement is as good as it’ll ever get when your command and velocity are at their threshold or
Your ball takes a predictable path into your target when your command and velocity are below their threshold.

No matter the pitch called, your arm speed shouts fastball and your hand comes through a very productive release window or
Depending upon the pitch called, you have no choice but to have your arm speed and release window tip your next pitch.

When you know how to regularly deliver 2 or more pitches directly into your target, your lower body forces you to challenge every opponent on every pitch to make solid contact with any pitch.

Making your throwing arm a spontaneous reaction to your lower body only requires a couple of simple adjustments. Contact me to find out how it’s done.

Skip Fast

Pitch Location Expert
Professional Pitching Institute

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An Out-of-Control Throwing Arm Produces Very Predictable Results

Poor Results = Early Loss of Arm Control

With a hip tilt at the top of your front leg lift, as you move down the mound, you use throwing arm to offset your stride.

When your front foot hits the ground, your stride tempo will determine your throwing arm path.  In the end, your throwing arm path determines your throwing hand position which determines your results.

Elite Results = Late Loss of Arm Control

When you end your front leg lift with your hips level, a couple of things happen. With your hips level, you don't need your arm for balance and, in the traditional sense, you won’t move down the mound.

What you do is use your glove arm to rotate your body around your core. Your core rotation moves your down the mound and, most importantly, to get your body back in balance, force you to make a throwing action.

A combination of letting your body take control of your throwing arm reacting to your lower body and the precision with which your body gets itself back in balance takes your throwing hand through the same predictable and highly productive release window.

Making your throwing arm a spontaneous reaction to your lower body only requires a couple of simple adjustments. Contact me to find out how it’s done.

Skip Fast

Pitch Location Expert
Professional Pitching Institute

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E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-524-3248

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What controls a pitcher’s throwing (re)action?

The single most important pitching measure.

When pitching, because you have only one foot on the ground, your pitching base of support transfers to your knees. The wider the distance between your knees, the more you’ll be able to keep your weight centered between your knees, the more often you end your front leg lift in a stable position.

How do pitchers challenge hitters?

When your movements keep your weight centered within your pitching base of support, your body lets you keep your arms are free to move any way you want. Your glove arm remains free to trigger your hips.  Your throwing arm remains free to respond to your lower body movements triggered by your glove arm.  You turn your throwing action into a reaction to your body’s movements brings your throwing hand through a consistently productive release window. Your throwing reaction challenges every hitter on every pitch to make solid contact with every pitch.

Weight... Why hitters control pitchers?

When your movements move your weight from the center of your pitching base of support, you can’t help but use your arms to get your body back to a stable posture. Only after landing your foot plant do you free your throwing arm to complete your motion. With both feet already on the ground, you stop your hips from having any impact on your throwing arm activity, your throwing arm works by itself and you miss your target over the plate more often than is advantageous to your pitching career.  Instead of letting your motion drive your results, you use your results to drive your motion.

How to measure your pitching results?

The best pitching results come from knowing how to keep your weight centered within your pitching base of support.  While others complicate this entire process, we present 3 simply executed movements that, no matter your age or skill level, will instantly elevate your pitching.

Want to find out more? Contact me.

Skip Fast,
Pro Pitching Institute

Chief Learning Officer
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Stabilize your Baseball Pitching Performances

The Science behind your motion:

Your Base of Support. When standing on two feet, your base of support is the area between your two feet. However, with one foot on the ground, your base of support transfers from your feet to your knees.

Your Base of Support and Gravity.

When gravity pushes down within your base of support, your position is stable. When this line of gravity falls outside your base of support, your position is unstable. 

Your inner ear.

Anytime your line of gravity falls outside your base of support, your inner ear repositions your arms until you line of gravity moves within your base of support.

Applying Science to Pitching:

Front leg lift and command.

Sustainable pitching results comes from the stable base you create at the top of your front leg lift keeping your lower body activity free to delivery every pitch into your Catcher’s target.

Recognizing instability.

You finish your front leg lift with your front knee behind your back knee and your inner ear uses your arms for balance and, instead of your lower body producing your results, you hope your eye-to-hand coordination gets the ball near your target.

The solution.

We would spend time adjusting to your current foot placements and back leg orientation to make sure you end your front leg lift in a stable position.

Skip Fast,
Director – National Coaching Network

Professional Pitching Institute

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

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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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You Have a “Go to” Position You May Not “Go To”?

You Have a “Go to” Position You May Not “Go To”?

You currently talk about “balance”, but, because your Body naturally drives itself in “balance”, merely talking about “balance” without managing your “balance” gives your Body no meaningful direction. Enter your “go to” position.

Your Body’s “go to” position… Your Body is in its “go to” position when your Shoulders/Hips are level and over each other and your Core is straight up and down. 

… and your body’s “go to” response. The instant you move out of your “go to” position, until you get back into your “go to” position, your Body stops listening to the way you want your Body to move! 

You can’t change your “go to” mechanism, but you can use your “go to” response to take you to the next level. You can spend hours trying to force your Body to generate more productive results, but, until you use your predictable “go to” responses to your advantage, the thought of getting your Body to move the way you want remains a work in progress.

Properly managing your “go to” response can make you dominant beyond your wildest dreams. By correctly managing your “go to” responses, with uncanny certainty, you can push your Body to produce a highly efficient, totally spontaneous and extremely repeatable throwing action.

Not accurately managing your “go to” mechanism…

- Keeps you from putting together good back-to-back-to-back outing.

- Causes you to spend hours fixing one thing only to realize you never fixed anything

- Forces your Team to overcome your disruptive “go to” responses.

If any of these career blockers describes you, contact me to discover how proven “go to” management instantly resolves your “go to” issues.

Skip Fast
Director – National Coaching Network
imlookingforapitchingcoach@propitchinginstitute.com
www.propitchinginstitute.com
856-524-3248

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The Pro Pitching Institute.

Successful Pitchers build their motion around their subconscious responses.

Consider the 4 ways your subconscious works.

1. To your subconscious, the only real thing is your present position.  
The good news is that you have complete and total control over your current body position.
2. Your subconscious only acts in the present.
Your subconscious only responds to your current body position.
3. Your subconscious always responds to the same positions in the same way.
Predictable subconscious patterns are built into your brain and, depending upon your current position, determine your future movements.
4. Your subconscious keeps your body in balance.
Your current position combines with your predictable subconscious patterns to determine whether, moving forward, you use your arms or your lower body for balance.

Use your subconscious to your advantage.

In pitching, as your front foot hits the ground, successful subconscious management uses your lower body balance to place all your weight to your glove hand side.

Predictably, with all your weight to your glove hand side, you give your subconscious one and only one way to equalize your weight… apply a rotational force (your hips) to a stationary object (your throwing arm) to use a spontaneous throwing action to bring your body back in balance.

Here's the great news.

As a natural byproduct of using your lower body for balance, without any conscious effort, your subconscious spontaneously produces pinpoint command, enhanced velocity, much later ball movement and, no matter your grip or release, your Opponent thinks you’re throwing a fastball.

Skip Fast
Director – National Coaching Network
imlookingforapitchingcoach@propitchinginstitute.com
www.propitchinginstitute.com
856-524-3248

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The Pro Pitching Institute.