Pitching: Your next motion will contain a critical error.

Everyday pitching stability.

Your base of support is the area between your feet.  You’re most stable when you center your weight in the middle of your support base. You move your weight outside your base of support and you throw yourself out of balance.

Pitching stability.

When pitching, because you have only one foot on the ground, your 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.

Pitching instability.

When you let your front knee come behind your front hip, your base of support becomes your back foot. Even though, with all your weight over your back foot and without any distance between your knees, you feel balanced at the top of your front leg lift, your front leg lift promotes instability.

Why is pitching stability important?

Begin your movement toward the plate from an unstable front leg lift and only after you get both feet back on the ground and move your weight back to center of your base of support can your throwing arm complete your delivery.

Begin from a stable position and your throwing arm is always free to react to your movements.

Still struggling with this concept? Contact me.

Skip Fast,
Pro Pitching Institute

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

Copyright © 2017, Pro Pitching Institute.

Do you understand your body when pitching?

Do you understand your body when pitching?

Pitching: How your body works. 

The way your body keeps itself stable is the least understood, yet needs to be the biggest focus within your pitching motion.

Your body naturally adapts to the way you move. Your body instantly knows when it’s unstable and automatically corrects itself. A trained Coach sees instability and knows how to use your reactions to alter your outcomes to your advantage.

Pitching: Stability.

Stability truly solves your most vexing pitching dilemmas. When you use stability to turn every movement into the extremely efficient and repeatable reaction, Coaches end up finding you and then fighting to have you pitch for his Team.

Thinking about Pitching.

When you take the time to study the complexity of human stability, you’ll find the extremely logical and very predictable ways your body reacts to itself always comes down to a series of very simple and very repeatable thoughts.  Once you make this realization, it becomes obvious when to stop adjusting, when you just need support and when any new skill hurts your outcomes.

The Art of Pitching.

The art of keeping your body stable is going to transform pitching. In today’s copycat society, before teaching stability becomes mainstream, contact us to ride on the crest of the stability wave  to the highest levels of the sport.

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

Copyright © 2017, Alliance of Accountable Pitching Coaches.

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 

Copyright © 2017, Alliance of Accountable Pitching Coaches. 

How to make your dysfunctional pitching functional.

Every second of every day, your subconscious obsesses over keeping/getting their body in a stable state… hips level and core upright. Your subconscious does this by manipulating your arms 50,000 times faster than your think.  Add these two items together and your subconscious turns your stability into an unstoppable, yet very natural, process. 

It’s all right to “accept” these necessary adjustments in everyday life, but, in pitching, the “acceptable” turns very “dysfunctional”.

“Dysfunctional”.  Nature dictates your subconscious controls your reactions. When you innocently “accept” you can consciously change your subconscious reactions, your subconscious stops your results from matching your expectations. To achieve your expectations, no matter how lofty, you must use your subconscious to make your motion more “functional”.

“Functional” is ...

1. Finishing your front leg lift with your hips level and core upright.
2. Your front leg lift not needing your arms to stabilize your body.
3. Your front leg lift keeping your glove arm free to force a spontaneous throwing (re)action. 
4. Your throwing arm reacting your lower body activity. 
5. Your subconscious reactions seamlessly lowering the probability you miss your target over the plate.

An Alliance of Accountable Pitching Coaches member teaches “functional”.

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

Copyright © 2017, Alliance of Accountable Pitching Coaches.

The “why’s” drive pitching success.

Mind your Pitching.

Central to everything you do throughout your life, your body is driven to keep you safe by keeping your body in balance. Your mind continually monitors and repositions your body parts to keep your core upright and centered between your hips.

Balance beams mirror pitching.

As examples, think about how your body takes over your arm movements when you walk a balance beam, how when you go over a pebble when riding your bike your arms instinctively move your front wheel in the right direction or how when you walk down a flight-of-stairs and take a bad step how your arms reach out to keep your from falling over. Each one proves your subconscious monitoring system natural, before you can even think to make the adjustment, uses your arms to keep/get your body in balance.

Enhanced pitching performances.

Your instinctive drive to stay in balance doesn't just disappear when your motion demands you balance yourself on one foot. It's always there, but it's up to an Accountable Pitching Coach to use your drive to enhance your pitching performances.

An accountable Pitching Coach puts your body in harmony with itself and puts you in a position to make influential baseball people recognize how your sustainability will be an asset to his Team.

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

Copyright © 2017, Alliance of Accountable Pitching Coaches.

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

Copyright © 2017, The Pro Pitching Institute.

Is your pitching bullpen plan productive?

Pitching is like dominoes.

Routines mimic falling dominoes.  You begin with your first domino (an athletic position), you add a little energy (an action takes you out of your position) and all the dominoes fall (your body reacts).

Pitching practice.

With a well thought out practice routine, you walk away from each practice session knowing what position and movement produces better results than your present competitive level requires. Next, you take your practice routine into competition, see what you need to improve and use your next practice session to remove any competitive flaws.

A pitching misconception.

Most athletes waste their time thinking they can change the movements without addressing how they begin their movements. Such an approach organizes your practice sessions around a “feel”, not a process. “Feels” aren’t repeatable.  In competition, a “feel” isn’t something you do, it’s something you must rediscover.  

A routine is something you do, gives you a foundation to build upon and give you a platform to systematically improve your results.   

Develop a routine.

Develop a routine, you feel safe. become productive and come to expect the higher-level outcomes you see in practice. Your body operates at full capacity, you can relax while you excel and your motion tells everyone you’re ready to compete at a higher level than every other pitcher around you.

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.