ACTION-REACTION MANAGEMENT PRODUCES COMMAND

In nature, actions and reactions come in Pairings. Pitching is simply finding a way to manage your action-reaction pairings to bring your throwing hand through the same productive release window on every pitch.

Action-Reaction pairings are easy to miss.

Everything you see within your motion is both an action and a reaction. Trying to change your action-reaction pairings without addressing your foot placements turns into a complete waste of time.

Disruptive Action-Reaction Pairings

Let’s look at how your action-reaction pairings fail to bring your throwing hand through the same productive release window on every pitch.

• Your foot placements (action) force you to end your front leg lift with your weight over your back foot (reaction).
• By ending your front leg lift with your weight over your back foot (action), to move down the mound, you shift your weight toward your target (reaction).
• You shift your weight toward your target (action) and gravity uses your throwing arm to balance your stride (reaction).
• You continue to use your throwing arm for balance (action) until your front foot gets back on the ground and your legs rebalance your weight between your knees (reaction).
• With both feet on the ground, your glove side shoulder moving back (action) powers your throwing arm moving forward (reaction).
• With your upper body working by itself (action), your shoulders tilt within a given range (reaction).
• Your shoulder tilt (action) means you never truly know with any certainty where any one pitch ends up (reaction).
  

Constructive Action-Reaction Pairings

Now, let’s look at the action-reaction pairings that bring your throwing hand through the same productive release window on every pitch.

• Your foot placements (action) force you to end your front leg lift with your weight centered between your knees (reaction).
• With one foot on the ground and your weight centered between your knees, your glove side shoulder moving back (action) powers your back hip forward (reaction).
• Your back hip coming forward (action) demands your front foot reconnects with the ground (reaction).
• Your front foot reconnecting with the ground (action) causes your lower body to stop rotating (reaction).
• Your foot plant stopping your lower body rotation (action) forces your lower body to whip your throwing arm into release (reaction).
• Your throwing arm whip (action) brings your throwing hand through an easily repeated and extremely productive release window (reaction).
  

Here’s the good news.

The Pro Pitching Institute freely presents the foot placements that’ll bring your throwing hand through a very sustainable and extremely productive release window. No matter where you live, we skillfully use on-line communication tools to make you a better pitcher than you ever dreamed possible.

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TRICK YOUR INNER EAR INTO PRODUCING COMMAND!

Your Inner Ear

Your inner ear monitors your body’s horizontal and vertical alignment.

Anytime your inner ear perceives a forward movement or senses a gravitational imbalance that jeopardizes your safety, your inner ear automatically and instantaneously replaces your current movements with the actions that’ll bring you back in balance.

What you see isn’t what happens 

You see a Pitcher moving down the mound. You see the Pitcher’s arm move. You may think the Pitcher controls his arm movements, but his arm movements are actually his inner ear response to his body position as he begins his journey down the mound.

Now that you know the Pitcher’s arm actions are actually reactions, trying to duplicate a Pitcher’s arm movements as you move down the mound is a complete waste of your time.

Fooling your inner ear.

Your inner ear uses your arms to offset any front-to-back or back-to-front movements, but fails to recognize rotation as a threat to your safety. Consequently, when you rotate down the mound, your inner ear keeps your throwing arm free to response to your lower body.

In fact, when you rotate down the mound and land your foot plant, your inner ear senses your horizontal and vertical misalignments and, to get your back in balance, forces you to whip your back arm forward and across your body.

Your inner ear keeps you safe by forcing you to make a throwing action.  Your inner ear uses your throwing arm to regain both your horizontal and vertical orientations.

Spontaneous Command

Because your inner ear is hard-wired to respond to the same conditions in the same way, the throwing action your inner ear creates at foot plant brings your arm through the same tiny release window on every pitch and, at the same time, shows your opponent the same arm speed on every pitch.

By using your inner ear to produce your results, you experience sustainable Cy Young-like results every Team wants to have on the mound.

Here’s the good news.

The Pro Pitching Institute teaches you how to control your inner ear responses. No matter where you live, we skillfully use on-line communication tools to make you a better pitcher than you ever dreamed possible.

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ONLY ONE COACHING APPROACH CREATES COMMAND!

Does your Coach manage the way your think to move or does he manage your movements?

Inside/Out Coaching solves issues.

When examined closely, Inside/Out Coaching teaches a mental process.

Inside/Out Coaches …

• Use the way your body processes gravity to produce remarkably effective, very repeatable and extremely productive results.
• Address the way your movements respond to gravity.
• Are proactive.
• Manage the way your positions and movements interact with gravity to produce the outcomes you need to succeed.
• Teaches you to expect every pitch to travel  directly into your Catcher’s target.
• Drive results and, as such, make you feel like you’re using less effort to produce markedly better results.
• Hold themselves accountable for your results.

With Inside/Out Coaching, you stop trying and start doing everything you dreamed you’d do.

Outside/In Coaching chases issues.

Until examined more closely, Outside/In Coaching teaches a physical process.

Outside/In Coaches …

• Dismiss how gravity influences your results.
• Are driven to change what they see by asking you to change what he saw.
• Are reactive.
• Promote trial-and error learning.
• Try to change your positions and motions without considering gravity’s impact on your movements.
• Rely on your next pitch arm slot fixing your last pitch arm slot.
• Force you to hope your next pitch behaves and goes where you expect.
• Hold you accountable for figuring out how to do what’s asked of them.

With Outside/in Coaching, you feel like you’re always wondering where your next pitch is going to end up.

Here’s the good news.

The Pro Pitching Institute coaches you from the Inside/Out. No matter where you live, we skillfully use on-line communication tools to make you a better pitcher than you ever dreamed possible.

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LET’S GET REAL ABOUT COMMAND!

Baseball’s Artificial Reality

The baseball community misleads and deceives you into thinking velocity will get you where you want.

Therefore, the baseball community’s artificial consensus turns velocity into a manufactured reality.

Don’t get us wrong, velocity WILL get you notice, but it’s command that guarantees a long and prosperous pitching career. 

How do you measure command?

Just like velocity, command is a black-and-white observation. Did the ball travel directly into your target or didn’t it?

You measure command as the ratio of pitches traveling directly into your target compared to the total pitches thrown.

The higher the ratio, the more effective you are as a Pitcher.

How did velocity become an artificial reality?

Because Pitching Coaches don’t know how to teach command, they’re not going to measure something they can’t teach.

Velocity is easy to measure and, as such, becomes a Pitching Coach’s go to measurement.

What’s Your Reality?

 When you pitch professionally, everyone around you throws as hard as you. It’s at this point that command separates the “haves” from the “have nots”.

When you execute your pitch directly into your target, the professional hitter you’re facing is less likely to drive the ball.

Without command, you risk missing your target over the plate, the hitter driving the ball and your Team asking someone with command to replace you.

Unfair, but true.

Your Pitching Coach is going to teach velocity, not command.

It’s unfair and your chances of success are slim, but to achieve your pitching dreams, you become responsible for teaching yourself something your Pitching Coach can’t.

Here’s the good news.

The Pro Pitching Institute teaches command. No matter where you live, we skillfully use Facebook Messenger to make you indispensable to your Coach and your Team.

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ONCE AND FOR ALL, STOP STRUGGLING WITH YOUR LOCATION!

Is your pitching built on assumptions?

When little is known, much is assumed. As soon as you fall into the trap where assumptions are treated as fact, you never really know where any one pitch will end up.

When assumptive learning is all you know, you rightfully believe your assumptions are fact, but, when you try to explain why you miss your target as often as you do, assumptive learning falls apart.

Assumptive learning draws attention to what you don’t know, what you’re uncertain about and what you sense is missing. Because solutions have yet to emerge, you turn your usual assumptions into possible solutions.

With assumptions, your pitching future goes no further than your next pitch and, because your next pitch is still based upon the same tired assumptions, you never notice any sustainable improvement.

Instead, use gravity as the basis to test and question your assumptions. Your testing and questioning systematically turns your assumptions into statistically-backed knowledge.

Turn assumptions into knowledge.

A gravity-driven line of attack imposes disciplines different from and more focused than the undisciplined assumptive approach you’re used to. As soon as you synchronize your well-intentioned assumptions to the way gravity impacts your delivery, you significantly reduce the frequency of pitches missing your target.

Failure essentially comes from an assumptive approach, but failure is avoided when you analyze how your gravitational prompts impact your results.

Here’s the good news.

By following the back foot orientations, foot placements and core activation routines outlined at the Pro Pitching Institute, you experience instantaneous improvement, meaningful reasons for every unacceptable outcome and a plan that’ll systematically bring your worst misses closer to your target.

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COMMAND IS ACHIEVABLE AND REPEATABLE

Centering your weight supercharges results

When you make your usual throwing action from a front leg lift ending with your weight centered between your knees, you…

1. Enhance your throwing arm speed,
2. Create later ball movement,
3. Send more pitches directly into your target than ever before and
4. Challenge every hitter to drive any pitch you throw.

Hardwired reactions encourage excellence

Your throwing action forces …

1. Your body to stride.
2. Your stride to produce an imbalance.
3. Your imbalance requiring you to get your front foot back on the ground.
4. Your front foot hitting the ground abruptly stopping your body’s rotation.
5. Your stoppage creating an unnatural upper and lower body positioning.
6. Your upper and lower body misalignment causing gravity to use your throwing arm to make a throwing action.

Natural reactions breed pitching brilliance

As a natural reaction to gravity needing your throwing arm to make a throwing action, gravity …

1. Brings your throwing hand through the same tiny release window on every pitch,
2. Whips your throwing arm into release,
3. Produces later ball movement than usual and
4. No matter the grip, always shows every hitter a fastball arm speed.

By centering your weight between your knees at the top of your front leg lift, superior pitching results become very achievable and, better yet, extremely repeatable.

Here’s the good news.

By following the back foot orientations, foot placements and core activation routines outlined at the Pro Pitching Institute, your natural reactions are guaranteed to promote superior pitching results. 

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DO YOUR FOOT PLACEMENTS PROMOTE COMMAND?

How do you begin your motion?

Before your front foot comes off the ground, you make conscious decisions where you’re going to place your feet.

Your foot placements tell gravity to end your starting position with …

• Your weight centered over your back foot or
• Your weight centered between your knees.

Beginning with your weight over your back-foot compromises your command.

Your foot placements mean gravity ends your front leg lift with your weight over your back foot.

From this position, gravity forces you to stride down the mound.

As an instinctual reaction, gravity uses your throwing arm to balance your stride and, once gravity completes your foot plant, to rebalance your weight between your feet.

By ending your foot plant in a balanced position, delivering any pitch into your target becomes a separate battle.

When you end your front leg lift with your weight over your back foot, your success is determined by how well you overcome your failures.

As you’re about to realize, you become more successful by ending your front leg lift with your weight centered between your knees.

Beginning with your weight centered between your knees promotes success.

Your foot placements mean gravity ends your starting position with your weight centered between your knees.

This puts you in a position to rotate down the mound around an axis that gravity created as your front foot came off the ground.

By rotating down the mound, you keep your throwing arm uninvolved with your balance.

As an instinctual reaction, to get your body back in balance, gravity completes your foot plant and uses your throwing action to get you back in balance.

With gravity turning your throwing action into a natural reaction, your ball travels into your target more often than when your foot placements were more arbitrary.

Here’s the good news.

By following the back foot orientations, foot placements and front leg lifts outlined at the Pro Pitching Institute, your location will challenge every hitter on every pitch. 

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