Are you in denial?

Anytime you miss your target outside your catcher’s body and you fail to address what caused you to miss your target by so much, you’re in “denial”!

“Denial” is a psychological defense mechanism where you’re faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept.

Instead, despite the frequency, you insist your worst misses are a fluke. You believe your best pitches more than compensate for your worst pitches.  Worst yet, you fail to take responsibility for your misses.  In the end, you accept your worst misses are part of your game.

Your problems go deeper than this ... The more you miss your target outside your catcher's body, the greater you frequency of missing your target over the plate and, the more you miss your target over the plate, the harder it gets to attract next level attention.

You need not deny yourself.

Your hips tilting at the top of your front leg lift cause your worst misses.  On a positive note, when you use your mind's "built-in response mechanism" to handle your hip orientations, you always know how to bring the next pitch after your unacceptable result back end up in your catcher's mitt.

I use your mind's "built-in response mechanism" to tell me whether you use your lower body or throwing arm for balance and which actions must be addressed to keep your worst misses inside your catcher’s body.

To gain command of your  worst pitches, reduce the chance you miss your target over the plate and attract more next level attention, contact me.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

   “My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it and move on!”

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Are You Wasting Your Arm?

Your throwing arm only has so many live throwing action in it.
The more live throwing you make where you use your throwing arm for balance, the shorter your pitching career and the more you become a Tommy John risk.

Pitchers asking for my help discover how to measure their movements without having to throw a live pitch.

Your body, whether moving in slow motion or in the quicker competitive mode, your mind's "built-in response mechanism" lets your body react to itself in exactly the same manner.

As part of your instruction, I show you can practice your movements in slow motion, use your mind's "built-in response mechanism" cues to finish make sure you finish your motion with a naturally productive and very spontaneous throwing (re)action.

From the comfort of wherever you practice your movements, you master your motion without wasting your arm.

Instead of using your last pitch result to measure your movements, you use the way your body reacts to your actions to tell you your latest movements would dominate the hitter.

Your slow motion, spontaneous throwing reflex means...

• Your hips consistently pull your throwing hand through the same tiny release window.
• No matter your grip or release, the opposition will always see a deceptive fastball arm action.
• The additional energy your lower body channels into your throwing arm enhances your velocity and creates much later ball movement. 

Combine all of the above and you can feel confident the hitters you face will struggle mightily to make solid contact with your pitches.

By knowing how your mind's "built-in response mechanism" controls your movements, no longer is it necessary to waste live throwing action to master your motion.

• In fact, the ability to work on your movements without throwing a pitch makes developing a naturally productive throwing response happen much sooner than later.

To discover how to produce a naturally productive throwing reflex without having to make a live delivery, contact me.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

“My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it!”

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Does every new skill simplify your motion?

Today’s pitching culture does a great job in making you think how complicated your motion is to master.

Until you experience how easily your mind's "built-in response mechanism" navigates your action/reaction patterns, the collective baseball community will continue to hold you accountable to skills they never told you how to perform.

By using your mind's "built-in response mechanism" to keep your hips level at the top of your front leg lift, you discover pinpoint location, enhanced velocity, late ball movement and a deceptive arm actions.

Your challenge isn’t being successful; by using your mind's "built-in response mechanism" to drive your improvement, a complicated motion becomes simply successful.

By listening to your mind's "built-in response mechanism", your challenge turns into not letting the clutter you hear within the pitching culture creep into your thoughts and becomes staying focused on your footwork and front foot lift that guarantees superior results.

• Superior results comes from the simple thoughts proven to show advanced scouts that you’ll be immediately successful at your next level.

To perform at the highest levels, ask me to eliminate the clutter and simplify the way you think about your movements.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

“My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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How comfortable are you with your comfort zone?

You rely on your comfort zone on all 3-0 counts.

• You throw your 3-0 pitches with little anxiety and minimal stress. 
• You just need to throw a strike without any concern for putting the ball over the plate. 

At 3-0, when you can throw a strike with your eyes closed, you're in control!

Once you deliver your 3-0 strike, its back to reality.

You're required to step out your comfort zone.

• "Goodbye" comfort zone and "hello" anxiety and stress. 

Now, because you need your next pitch to look like a strike without missing your target over the plate, your next result has a basis in "hope" and your stress level increases. 

I use your footwork and front foot lift to keep your hips level at the top of your front leg lift.

• I'll use your natural reactions out of your starting position to create a consistently efficient and extremely effective delivery. 
• Since your mind's "built-in response mechanism" controls your results, I expand your comfort zone to include all your pitches.

Contact me to optimize and expand your comfort zone.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

“My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it and move on!”

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Is Your Coach Gambling with Your Future?

Good coaches to instantly get you to use less effort to produce better results.

Be aware that your current coach is speculating with your future when...

1. His adjustment fails to immediately bring your worst misses consistently closer to your target.
2. He forces you to use your last pitch result to adjustment your next pitch arm slot.
3. Instead of a laser focus on your movements, he uses your last pitch result to determine whether something works.
4. He tells you what to do without telling you how to do what you need to do.
5. He tells you to do stuff you already know you need to do.

I recommend you bases every coaching decision upon these “4 Critical Coaching Elements”.

Synchronized – Your first action impacts your second movement which influences your third movement which powers your fourth movement and so on … until you complete your motion.
Predictable – Your natural reactions power the behaviors that keep your hips level at the top of your front leg lift.
Expected – Every improvement gets you to use less effort to produce before results.
Sequenced –Your motion shows a very specific progression, inevitable ending and unavoidably better.

When your coach misses any to these "4 Critical Elements", I would question whether your coach is using your an a pigeon pig to sharpen this coaching skills?

No matter your age, your skill level or age, contact me to instantly harness your mind's "built-in response mechanism, , make your results next level ready and keep you Tommy John resistant.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

“My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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"Ability" moves you past pitchers with "potential".

Your skills at your current level show the ability to compete at the next level.

Most pitcher get promoted based upon their "potential".

• They get promoted and, because they don't have the "ability" to compete, come right back to where they started.

By using your mind's "built-in response mechanism" to power your skills, your show next level evaluators that you have the "ability" to compete at the next level.

• As soon as a scout sees you have the "ability" to compete, you move past the pitchers who have a lot of "potential".
• Better yet, once you do get your promotion, your "ability" makes you instantly competitive.

At the next level, the hitters will most assuredly be more disciplined and more patient.

• Your "ability" makes you more likely to stay at the next level than pitchers with just "potential".
• With "ability", instead of having a results orientation, you need to focus on your motion.

With "ability...

• You motion produces your results. Your results don’t produce your results.
• Your motion produces pinpoint location.
• Your next level catcher places his target in a spot where your next level opposition can't drive the ball, you hit his spot and you instantly dominate at the next level.
• Your motion shows the next level hitter, no matter your grip, a deceptive fastball arm speed.
• Your spontaneous throwing reaction channels your lower body energy into your throwing hand which generates much later ball movement.

A focus on your motion shows a scout you have the "ability' to keep your next level opponents off balance and prevent them from driving your pitches.

To find out how to turn "potential" into "ability", contact me.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

“My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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Is a vision holding back your progress?

Parallel instruction

Coaches have a vision of what your pitching motion should look like and then ask you to parallel their image of what they feel your motion should look like?

1. Parallel instruction has nothing to do with the way your body moves and everything to do with how someone else thinks your body should move.

2. The instant you attempt to change the way your body moves based upon what someone else "thinks" you should be doing, instead of managing your personal reactions, your personal reactions end up managing you!

Collaborative Instruction

The way your body reacts to itself gives you a realistic chance to live your dreams at the highest levels.

1. Reaction driven instruction teaches to the way your body interacts to itself.

2. Reaction driven instruction makes your personal action/reaction patterns more effective.

3. By using your reactions, you use your reactions tell your coach what skills to address and the order in which to address each skill.

Contact me to optimize the way you react to your current movements.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

   “My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move one!”

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"Do" what your coach says or "drop it"?

"Do it" - Every pitcher I work with tells me, as soon as I adjust their footwork and monitor their front foot lift, they feel they're using much less effort to produce better results.   To support this, their mind's "built-in response mechanism immeidately shows ...

1. Them having greater leg involvement.

2. Their wort results finish noticeably closer to their target.
3. Them no longer aiming and, for the first time, pitching.

4. Instead of the 10,000 focused repetitions required to master a "feel", they experience a personal "aha" moment then...
"Do it"!

"Drop it" - Any time a coach asks you to make some change within your motion and...

1. Your new movements don't make your motion look and feel more efficient.

2. Your worst misses finish outside your catcher's body at the same rate as before the adjustment.

3. Your back hips show your throwing arm pulling your back hip forward.
4. You find yourself working on your muscle memory (still need 10,000 focused to master a "feel"), then 

"Drop it!"

To experience coaching the way it needs to be, contact me.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

   “My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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Before you make any changes, answer these 3 questions.

Question 1 - Does a change really need to happen?

Yes, I’d make the adjustment - When your results are unacceptable to baseball people at the highest levels, you need to make an adjustment!

No, I wouldn’t make the change - when the reason for your improvement comes from something you see another pitcher do, what someone says you need to do or you're merely experimenting with your movements, I’d recommend you keep your current motion and merely optimize your footwork.

Question 2 - Why should the change happen?

Yes, I’d make the adjustment – your mind's "built-in response mechanism" indicates the adjustment will improve your results.

No, don’t make the change – anytime your mind's "built-in response mechanism" shows the change causes your hips to tilt, stay away from making the adjustment.

Question 3 - How do you make your change happen?

Yes, I’d make the adjustment - When the way your mind's "built-in response mechanism" keep your body in balance  levels your hips, make the adjustment.

No, don’t make the change – Anytime you’re trying to change some movement within your motion, keep doing what you’re doing.

By using your mind's "built-in response mechanism" to drive your adjustments, you always have a valid reason to make a change and you're guaranteed to produce better results.

• Once you make these adjustments, you'll notice see more people staring at you and wondering why their delivery can't accomplish what they see you do!!!

To become the pitcher you know you can be, contact me.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

   “My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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There's no right or wrong in nature.

In nature, your mind's "built-in response mechanism" doesn’t care whether your movements are productive or disruptive. 

All your mind's "built-in response mechanism cares about is keeping or getting your hips level.

Your mind's "built-in response mechanism" might not care about your hip orientation, but you should!

All consecutive year, Cy Young winners keep their hips level into their front foot lift.

Managing your mind - With well-managed movements, your mind's "built-in response mechanism" keeps your throwing arm free to instantly respond to your lower body actions. Once your glove side triggers your foot plant, to get back in balance, your mind's "built-in response mechanism" instinctively pulls your throwing hand into release.  As a reflex, your throwing hand consistently moves through a tiny release window.

Journeymen pitchers let their minds manage them.

Your mind controls you - Your hip tilt forces 
your mind's "built-in response mechanism" to use your arms for balance.  Because you're using your throwing arm for balance, you delay your throwing arm into your release.  Your independent throwing arm action expands your release window, makes you miss your target over the plate too often and, in general, produces unacceptable results.

Your body may not care about how you keep yourself in balance, but, unless you care, you’re unnecessarily shortening your pitching career.

When, for no known reason, your worst pitches travel outside your body, ask me to turn your throwing arm balance into lower body balance.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

   “My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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Are You Putting Yourself in Jeopardy?

You’re putting yourself in jeopardy are when you obsess over your results.

A Performance Driven Delivery

A "performance driven performance" model means you use prematurely use your throwing arm for balance, delay your throwing arm into release and produce unacceptable results.

You can't control your results...

• The hitter directly influences your results.  Good hitters hurt your results.  Bad hitters pad your results.
  - You can't control your opponent, so why measure your results against your opponent?
• Your naturally unproductive performances force you to use your last pitch location to influence your next pitch arm angle.
  - You can't overpower your mind's "built-in response mechanism", so why not do something to work with it?
• Your constant change in arm angle, no matter how subtle, creates the small ligament tears and fraying that, over many repetitions, makes you an extreme Tommy John risk.
  - You fail to address your arm slot changes and, because your throwing arm distress takes you off the mound, you won't have to worry about your results?
• Your inability to dominate at your current level hitters translates to next level hitters totally controlling you, not you dominating them.
  - When you properly address the cues your mind's "built-in response mechanism", you move past "potential" and show talent evaluators "ability"?

The opposite of a performance driven delivery is a motion driven delivery.

• You use your footwork to position your hips to keep your throwing arm free to instantly respond to your stride
• Your throwing hand moves through a naturally healthy, totally spontaneous and extremely acceptable performance.
• You motion produces your results without you requiring your results to drive your results.

Want a naturally productive, Tommy John resistant motion?  … Ask me to show you how properly managed footwork gets you to pitch as good as or better than you ever expected.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

   “My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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How do you rank against other pitchers?

Anyone can be ordinary, but, in pitching, the ability to produce sustainable fastball command will exceed everyone's expectations and move you to the head of the class.

• Sustainable fastball command comes from your mind's "built-in response mechanism" keeping your throwing arm free to immediately respond to your body position at foot plant.
• Keeping your throwing arm free to respond to your mind's "built-in response mechanism" keeping your hips level at the top of your front leg lift.

Not only does your sustainable fastball command turns you into a baseball scout magnet.  When people see how efficient your movements looks, they don't know why, but the stop and stare at your movements in an  attempt to figure out how you do what you do.

To find out how to properly manage your mind's "built-in response mechanism" and, at the same time, exceed your wildest expectations, contact me.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

   “My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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Keep it simple.

“Keeping it Simple” means you have a singular focus on your footwork.

Your footwork determines whether you control your movements or your movements control you.

Your footwork allows you to get your throwing arm to make one spontaneous, location-producing, velocity-enhancing, late-ball-movement reaction.

Without a focus on your footwork , instead of your improvement being execution drive, your improvement relies upon your ability to use your last pitch results to determine your next pitch arm slot. 

• Your footwork is the only way to offset your natural urge to use your throwing arm for balance. 
• based upon the time we spent figuring out how to optimize your footwork, when you try to manage your own footwork, by the time you figure out what you need to do, you'll be past your pitching prime. 

By showing you how to optimize your footwork, as soon as you begin your delivery, just like all consecutive year, Cy Young winners, you keep your throwing arm free to instantly trigger a Tommy John resistant, naturally productive and totally spontaneous throwing reflex.

Want to simplify your delivery and supercharge your results, then contact me.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

“My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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Are You Focused On the Right Stuff?

Are you thinking more about your best pitches or are you thinking about your worst misses?

You expect to do well, but your worst pitches tell you what you need to work on to generate many more productive pitches.

… By addressing the reason you to missed your target by so much, you'll permanently improve your delivery.
... With a laser focus on what you do well, you improve nothing.

When your movements cause you to you miss your target outside your catcher's body, you …

... Consciously changing your throwing arm slot to get your next pitch into your target area does nothing to permanently shrink your target area.
... Also, thinking your miss was just a fluke occurrence is not a solution.
... Taking a breath, making sure you use your optimized footwork and make a complementary front foot lift brings your next pitch back to your target.

By optimizing your footwork, your worst misses finish much, much closer to your target.

The instant you realize no one is truly addressing or knows how to improve your worst misses, ask me for help.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

   “My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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Do you have a valid reason to make a change?

You're using "blind instruction" anytime you make an adjustment without having a valid reason to make the change. 

You only have a short window to prove to someone you would be an asset to their team.  

• “Blind instruction” extends your learning curve and reduces the chance someone/anyone will recognize your pitching skills.

Everything within your motion follows how your mind's "built-in response mechanism" processes your hip orientation.

- Changing an action without consideration to how impact your hip orientation means you're using trial and error to improve your delivery?

Everything you see within everyone else's motion is a reaction to a prior action.

- Attempting to include in your motion what you see in someone else's motion changes your hip orientation?  Blindly following what you think you see in someone else's motion is pitching suicide.

When manage the way your mind's "built-in response mechanism" interprets your hips, your mind begins controlling your actions.

- You use your mind's "built-in response mechanism"  to tell when and where to make adjustment that'll instantly shrink your target area, get your ball to break closer to the plate and, no matter the pitch selection, show the opposition a deceptive arm action.

Stop blindly doing what you think you should do and ask me to me to use your mind's "built-in response mechanism" to instantly make your results much more acceptable.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

   “My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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Simplicity within the Complexity

To truly measure your improvement, count your ratio of pitches that finish outside your catcher's body compared to your total number of pitches thrown.

Measuring the number of times you miss your target outside your catcher's body tells you...

1. Whether your throwing arm balance is controlling you or a totally spontaneous throwing (re)action manages your results and

2. Whether you use your eyes to find your target area or  to fine tune your location within your target area.

The critical driver for your success is consistently delivering your pitches to within inches of your target.

Best - By keeping your hip level at the top of your front leg lift, you consistently deliver every pitch within your catcher's body.
Better- Even though your throwing arm balance controls your movements, your well-developed eye-to-hand coordination produce acceptable results.  (Unfortunately, eye-to-hand coordination is not a teachable skill.)
Ordinary - Your throwing arm balance takes over your movements and you possess minimal eye-to-hand coordination.

Using your results as your critical driver tells you what you need to address to guarantee success.

Should you struggle with your ratio of worst misses against total pitches thrown, contact me.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

   “My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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Want to be ordinary... then focus on your velocity.

Without any consideration for pitch location, the pitching culture urges you to maximize your velocity.  Most pitchers, unfortunately, make this theirfocus.

Velocity with location comes from …

o Using your footwork to keep your hips level.

o Using your entire body to enhance your velocity.

o Throwing through a naturally productive arm slot.

o Using your eyes to fine tune your location within your target area.

o Continually moving through a Tommy John resistant delivery.

o Knowing your combined velocity and location lets your immediately compete at the next level.

o Always keeping your opponent off balance.

o Elevating your performances way above ordinary.

o Relies on a very repeatable execution.

o  Knowing you're going to dominate.

Velocity without location comes from a casual approach to your footwork.  You ...

o   Let you footwork use your throwing arm for balance.

o   Use your upper body to create your velocity.

o Throw through a naturally unproductive arm slot.

o Use your eyes to find your target area.

o   Become an extreme risk for a Tommy John breakdown.

o Hope your velocity is enough to get you noticed.

o Never fool a patient hitter who waits for your next pitch to miss over the plate.

o Compete against every other pitcher who's velocity driven, but not against pitchers with fastball command.

o Rely on eye-to-hand coordination for your survival.

o Hope you do well.

Instead of working on your velocity, you realistically have a better chance of reaching the highest levels by, instead of your footwork managing you, managing your footwork.

Want to reach the highest levels? … ask me to help you!

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute
856-524-3248

   “My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

Pro Pitching Institute | Throwing Arm Health | Testimonials | Available Programs | Contact