Pitching: Why pitching success seems so elusive?

Pitching Stability. 

Nature dictates you use your arms to stabilize your body. When you look at this in another way, only after you stabilize your body can you move your arms the way you want.  

Rotational Force Creates Pitching Superiority. 

Finishing your front leg lift with your weight evenly centered between your base of support frees your arms to rotate your body around your core.  With your arms free, you use your arm action to create a very predictable glove side imbalance.  The instant you make this action, too get your body back of stable, you force yourself to subconsciously resolve your imbalance by making a spontaneous throwing (re)action.  

Your spontaneous throwing (re)action naturally brings your throwing hand through an extremely productive and very repeatable release window.  By changing grips and releases, your instinctive throwing (re)action ends up challenging every opponent to make solid contact on every pitch. 

Forward Momentum Causes Pitching Struggles.  

Finishing your front leg lift with all your weight centered over your back-foot forces you to shift your weight from your back foot toward your target. Your weight shift triggers you to use your arms to stabilize your body.  

The instant your body stabilized itself, your arms are free to complete your delivery.  Sadly, by putting yourself in this position, your throwing arm completes your delivery as an independent action. Even with world-class eye-hand coordination, you risk for missing your target over the plate much more often than is good for your pitching career.  

What's in your future? 

Any self-proclaimed Pitching Coach can innocently allow forward momentum to block your pitching success. Only Pitching Coaches who understand how your body reacts to itself can force you to make a spontaneous throwing (re)action without asking you to make a throwing action.

Contact us to experience the guaranteed success associated with an instantaneous throwing (re)action.  

Skip Fast,  Pro Pitching Institute 

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

Copyright © 2018, Pro Pitching Institute. 

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

Copyright © 2018, Pro Pitching Institute.

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.