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!”

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