Are you “command ready”?

When you’re “command ready”, you end your starting position ready to bring your throwing hand through the same tiny release window on every pitch.

There are only 3 Starting Positions

You begin your movement toward the plate from one of 3 body positions.

- You end your front leg lift with your front knee behind your front hip.

- You can hold your front leg lift with your front knee well in front of your back.

- From the stretch, you end your pitch preparation with your feet wider than your hips.

Hand Separations Test Each Starting Position

To test each starting position, get into the position and separate your hands.

Nothing happens when …

- You end your front leg lift with your front knee behind your front hip.

- From the stretch, you end your pitch preparation with your feet wider than your hips.

But your body makes a throwing action when ...

- You can hold your front leg lift with your front knee to the home plate side of your back.

Hand Separation Reactions Predict Command

Since your body is an interconnected system that moves as one and only reacts to itself …

When “nothing happens” …

- Your body needs to prepare for ball release. In this instance, there’s a huge chance your preparation changes your release window from one pitch to the next.

When you go directly into a throwing action …

- There’s an extremely high likelihood your throwing hand moves through the same release window on every pitch.

The Pro Pitching Institute Makes You “Command Ready”

The Pro Pitching Institute presents the 6 “Building Blocks” that’ll allow your hand separation to automatically bring your throwing hand through the same release window on every pitch. Out of the Starting Position the Pro Pitching Institute creates, no matter the pitch called, you can expect the ball to travel directly into your intended target with very late movement and a deceptive arm action.

Tell a friend! Have a friend whose release window changes from one pitch to the next? Make sure to tell them about the Pro Pitching Institute.

Skip Fast
Freelance Professional Pitching Coach
E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-281-2596

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Mindful Command!

The way your body works …

• Your mind is hardwired to keep your centered between your feet.
• The instant your mind senses any weight shift, your mind tells your body how it must move to get your weight back to center.
• Actions only occurs after your mind believes your weight is centered between your feet.

Productively Sustainable Release Windows

When, at the top of your front leg lift, you fool your mind into thinking your weight is centered between your feet (a combination of Pro Pitching Institute “Building Blocks” 1-5), you’re able to come out of your front leg lift throwing the ball through your target (Pro Pitching Institute “Building Blocks” 6).

The act of throwing the ball through your target causes your body to rotate down the mound.

When you rotate, because your weight is no longer centered between your feet. Your mind demands you get your front foot back on the ground.

The instant your foot plant interrupts your lower body rotation, your mind instantly self-corrects your imbalance by whipping your throwing arm forward and across your body and your throwing hand through the same tiny release window on every pitch.

Your Unpredictable Release Window

Your front leg lift forces you to shift your weight from the rubber toward the plate.

As your body moves from back-to-front, your mind use your throwing arm to slow your movement down the mound.

Once your front foot gets back on the mound, your legs center your weight between your feet.

As far as your mind is concerned, it's done its job. With your weight is centered between your feet, your next action is to complete your delivery.

Because you placed your body in a position where your throwing action is unrelated to any other action, your release window changes from one pitch to the next.

How can you expect your next pitch to go where you expect?

The Pro Pitching Institute freely supplies you with the 6 “Building Blocks” proven to whip your throwing hand through a consistently tiny release window on every pitch.

Tell a friend! Have a friend whose release window changes from one pitch to the next? Make sure to tell them about the Pro Pitching Institute.

Skip Fast
Freelance Professional Pitching Coach
E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-281-2596

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Physical Laws Govern Command!

Swinging Weight Scenario 

What happens when you swing a weight on a string? Put a weight on the end of string, hold the string in your hands and move your hand in a circle. 

The weight makes a circular movement around your hand that’s determined by your hand angle. When you goal is to bring the weight through the same spot on every swing, your challenge becomes finding and maintaining the correct hand angle. 

Bull Whip Scenario 

What happens when you crack of bull whip? You grip the bull whip handle, snap your hand down and up and your hand movement travels down the whip to create a loud snap. 

When your hand snap is at the same angle, the bull whip crack occurs in the same spot. 

Producing Command 

Getting your hand to snap the bull whip handle at the same angle is much easier than maintaining the same hand angle as you swing a weight on a string around your hand. 

• Bull Whip Scenario - By properly managing the gravitational forces impacting your movements, it’s very possible to teach you how to get your hip rotation to whip your throwing hand through the same tiny release window on every pitch. 
• Swinging Weight Scenario - When you dismiss or ignore these gravitational forces, your arms rotate around your head and, consequently, your release window varies from one pitch to the next.  

Conclusively, whipping your throwing hand through the same release window on every pitch is a teachable skill. 

How do you manage gravity? 

The Pro Pitching Institute teaches you how to take advantage of nature’s gravitational forces. No matter where you live, we skillfully use free Internet tools to teach you how to whip your throwing hand through a consistently tiny release window on every pitch. 

Tell a friend! Have a friend whose release window changes from one pitch to the next? Make sure to tell them about the Pro Pitching Institute. 

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YOUR STARTING POSITION PREDICTS COMMAND!

Do you know where your next pitch will end up? 

Let’s test your front leg lift. Hold your position at the top of your front leg lift, separate your hands and slowly bring your glove side elbow behind your body. 

• Sustainable Command - When you can’t help but make a throwing action, your throwing arm is responding to your lower body activity and your throwing hand is extremely likely to come through the same tiny release window on every pitch. 
• Unsustainable Command - When you finish your glove side elbow movement and you’re still in your starting position, you created a position where it’s physical impossible to know with any certainty where any one pitch ends up. 

Why does this happen? 

Your natural drive to keep your body in balance produces these responses.  

• Sustainable Command – Your front leg lift creates a situation like balancing on a balance beam. Any movement and your body does what it has to do to keep you on top of the beam. Consequently, your glove side elbow slowly moving behind your body causes you to take a step (your stride) and, to get you back in balance, bring your back arm forward and across your body (your throwing action).  
• - Since your body is hardwired to react to the same situations in the same way, your throwing hand moves through the same tiny release window on every pitch. 
• Unsustainable Command - You end your front leg lift with your weight over your back foot. Your slow glove side elbow movement isn’t enough to move your weight off your back foot. Consequently, with your weight over your back foot, to move down the mound, you’re forced to stride. When you stride, your body does what it has to get you back in balance. Your body does this by completing your stride and using your leg to bring your weight back to center. 
• - With your body in balance, your throwing action becomes a separate and unsupported action, your release window varies from one pitch to the next and you never know where any one pitch ends up. 

What’s the solution? 

The Pro Pitching Institute teaches you how to end your front leg lift where a slow glove side elbow movement forces you to make a productive throwing action. No matter where you live, we skillfully use free Internet tools to make you a better pitcher than you ever dreamed possible. 

Tell a friend! Have a friend struggling with their pitching? Make sure to tell them about the Pro Pitching Institute. 

Skip Fast Freelance Professional Pitching Coach  E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com Cell or Text: 856-281-2596 

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