Turn your pitching results into a valuable reaction!

Where your command struggles come from.

Throwing with both feet on the ground discounts your command.

- When you land your foot plant and then make a throwing action, you twist your back.

> Your back’s twisting action carries down your spine and into your hips.

> At the same time your throwing arm comes into release, your body is matching your throwing arm path to your foot plant position.

> It’s these slight changes to your throwing arm path that, no matter how good your intentions, causes you to miss your target.

To improve your command, you need a reliable process that’ll produce the same foot plant position on every pitch.

Developing elite command.

You can generate much better command by clearing your front shoulder with one foot still off the ground. By clearing your front shoulder, your body lands your stride in the same position on every pitch.

+  To keep your from falling on your nose, your twisting action out of your front leg lift forces you to stride.

> Your stride creates the torque that travels up your core and out your throwing hand.

> By turning your throwing action into a reaction, you force your throwing hand to come through the same productive release window on every pitch.

This simple approach turns your throwing arm into an instrument you use to keep your Team close enough to win.

Sounds easy enough, but it’s not.

Clearing your front shoulder only works when you end your front leg lift with your weight centered between your knees. Since most Pitchers end their front leg lift with their weight over their back foot, turning your throwing arm into a productive tool isn’t as easy as it sounds.

If you don’t know the 4 simple actions that’ll end your front leg lift in a dynamically balanced position, contact us for help. You’ll be glad you did!!!

Skip Fast

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Elite pitching results are more mental than physical.

These pitching elements drive your success.

These basic elements that go into every pitch result.

1. Your Subconscious – To keep your body in balance, your mind is programmed to automatically rearranges your body parts.

2. Your Physiological Factors – When your mind rearranges your body parts, you’re hardwired to always react to the same conditions in the same way.

3. Your Psychological Makeup – After seeing an unacceptable result, do you adjust to your last pitch or stick with your plan?

These tools become your guide to a sustainable motion known to produce sustainable results.

Your subconscious patterns produce sustainability.

To produce sustainably excellent results all the time, you plan your subconscious reactions around your physiological patterns. Your sustainable results give you one option after every pitch … stick with what you do.

Your body language is the interplay between your shoulders and hips. By comparing your body language to the patterns proven to produce sustainably elite results, you systematically close the gaps between the two. In the end, you walk away with a set of repeatable movements that’ll deliver each pitch into our Catcher’s target.

Knowing your actions are sustainable, anytime you see an unacceptable result, you merely go back to the movements you know will produce the results you expect.

By merely thinking about the right combination of movements, your sustainably elite results become an involuntary reflex.

If you need help finding the right sequence of actions that’ll produce the results you need to move up the baseball ladder, contact us for help.

Skip Fast

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Professional Pitching Institute

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Pitching … How to engage your lower body?

The best and easiest way to challenge every hitter on every pitch comes from turning your throwing action into a lower body reaction.

These are the choices you have to engage your lower body.

Your front leg lift.

By ending your front leg lift with your weight centered just in front of your back foot, your core is upright, and your arms are free to move anyway you want.

But not … By ending your front leg lift with your weight over your back foot, you tilt your core. You can move your arms anyway you want, but, unlike when you end your front leg lift with your weight centered in front of your back foot, your arm movements are separate from the rest of your body.

You move down the mound.

You open your glove side shoulder to create a lower body rotation. It’s your lower body rotation that forces you to move down the mound.

But not … To move down the mound, you’re force to shift your weight toward your target.

You complete your stride.

With your lower body rotation putting you in a position to literally fall on your face, you instinctively place your front foot on the ground.

But not … Your front foot hits the ground when the weight on your front side overpowers your throwing arm frantically trying to counterbalance your body mass on your back side.

You complete your throwing action.

Your natural foot plant stops your lower body rotation. The energy you generate by stopping your lower body rotation moves up your core and out your throwing hand.

But not … Landing your foot plant and getting your core back to vertical clears your body to make a secondary throwing action.

What lower body engagement does for you?

Your glove side shoulder opens to cause a chain reaction where your lower body rotation whips your throwing arm into release.

Because your throwing arm reacts to lower body activity, you spontaneously bring your throwing hand through a very productive and extremely consistent release window, you delivery every pitch into your Catcher’s mitt and, even on your off-speed pitches, show your opponent a fastball arm speed and exceptionally late ball movement.

But not … By using an upper body rotation to pull your throwing arm into release, you can’t deliver more than 2 pitches into your Catcher’s target, your ball takes a predictable path into your target and, based upon the pitch you throw, you change your arm slot and arm speed.

If you don’t know how to complete your front leg lift with your weight centered in front of your back foot, contact us for help.

Skip Fast

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Professional Pitching Institute

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Is misinformation blocking your progress?

Where does elite pitching command come from?

Your elite command comes from you clearing your glove side before your complete your stride. The simple act of opening your front shoulder before your front foot hits the ground gets your lower body to pull your throwing hand through a very consist and easily repeated release window.

Stop listening to the majority of what’s said about your pitching motion.

Standing in the way of your elite command are your subconscious impulses the baseball community floats out there. You keep listen to what everyone says you should be doing and you won’t be able to get as few as 2 consecutive pitches to travel into your catcher’s target.

Start listening to your body.

These are some examples of what the baseball community says you need to do to be elite?

Keeping your front shoulder closed – When you keep your front shoulder closed into your foot plant, your throwing arm works by itself. With an independent throwing action, you never know where your next pitch is going to end up.

Striding – When you try to control your stride, you use your throwing arm to offset your forward weight shift. With your throwing arm involved with your balance, you physically take your lower body out of your motion.

Lead with your hips – Your body rotates only when your core is vertical. When you think to lead with your hips, your core is going to tilt. Your core won’t get back to an upright position until your complete your stride.  By that point, you’ve effectively lost your lower body.

Arm slots –When, to remain competitive, you must change your throwing arm path, you’re going to impact your stride. Anytime your stride is less than natural, you lose your lower body. As stated many times already, you lose your lower body and you never really know where your next pitch is going to end up.

Pitching help is on the way.

By getting your front shoulder to turn all these elements a spontaneous reaction, we draw out the elite Pitcher hiding inside of you. Call “Skip” today to talk about what we can do for you.

Skip Fast

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Professional Pitching Institute

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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

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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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