Can you trust what you see?
It’s human nature that when you see someone throwing strikes
with acceptable velocity or someone pitching for a high-profile Team, you trust
what you see, memorize his movements and, to reproduce his results, attempt to
copy his movements.
You naturally think your eyes are capturing truthful images,
but what you believe to be true is a clever estimate of what’s happening.
As with all predictions, what you think you see is never
100% correct. This leads to errors and, instead of you controlling your
opponent, these errors lead to next-level hitters controlling you.
The gap in your thinking becomes more apparent when you
struggle to resolve the mismatch between your lack of command to your
perception of the way you want your motion to look.
It’s at this point you realize the details you thought you
saw really aren’t as refined as you think. It’s the gaps between what you think
you see and what happens that promote the misses your next-level opponents
exploit.
Distractions are abundant.
Distractions to learning come in 2 forms.
- You get distracted by
seeing an obvious change in movement or
- You get distracted by
seeing a different reaction to the same movements.
Instead of understanding why the
distractions happen and addressing the cause, you seek to change the
distraction back to what’s comfortable for you.
When you know the cognitive mechanisms driving your motion,
the magic happens at the glove.
You measure your motion by your
ability to regularly deliver 2 pitches in a row into your target without your
receiver’s mitt or, when you see an unacceptable outcome, you bring the next
pitch back into your receiver’s target.
Your attention to one specific movement relaxes your focus on
your total motion.
You can only process a limited
amount of information at any one time, so when you get distracted by any single
movement, you miss how this action impacts all your movements.
The interest in the results skews the way you think about
the motion.
Instead of your motion producing
your results, your results drive your motion. Your movements skew farther and
farther away from your vision of “good”.
Your vision of what’s “good” is hijacked
by the notion that velocity is more important than command.
Eventually, you get to the point
where everyone around throws as hard as you. Unless you’re a Pitcher who
commands his fastball, your climb up the baseball food chain depends upon you
missing your target less often than the next guy.
Your stats are good; therefore, you’re pitching well.
When you think you understand your
motion, you relax and become less aware of the otherwise suspicious things
happening within your delivery. These flaws come back to bite you at the next
level.
What really happens?
Unless you pay close attention to the reasons the Pitcher
you choose to copy moves the way they do, you simply won’t see what happens.
Now that you know there are holes in your
thought process, you get …
- Confused – what do you
do next?
- Flustered – without
know how, you try to do what someone asks you to do?
- Perplexed – the
solution to your situation is beyond your understanding.
The most effective way to make sense out of what you see is
a focus on the cognitive mechanisms driving your pitching motion.
The Pro Pitching Institute promotes next-level, fastball command.
The Pro Pitching Institute prioritizes the important aspects
of your motion while ignoring the less relevant things.
In the end, by following the process outlined
at the
Pro
Pitching Institute, you motion looks like the one you originally visualized,
but, instead of using strikes or stats to measure your results, you use your
ability to deliver every fastball directly into your Catcher’s target.
Tell a friend! Have a friend struggling with their fastball command?
Make sure to tell them about the Pro Pitching Institute.
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