Tuesday, September 3, 2019

No Conflicts, Better Results!


To maximize your strike-to-ball ration, you open your front shoulder to your target, your body spins down the mound and, by plan, to stop from hurting yourself, your throwing hand comes through the same release window on every pitch.

How Your Mind Works?

Your brain is built to protect you from injury.

Without thinking about it, your mind makes sure your body is always in balance, your arms are free to react to any threats and you’re able to move any way you want.

Standing Positions Say It All

A Typical Standing Position
Let’s pretend you stop to talk to someone.

Without thinking about it, you place your feet a comfortable distance apart and you center your weight between your feet.

Your body wants to feel your weight centered between your feet, you’re stable, your arms are free to respond to any danger, and, should it be needed, you can quickly move in any direction.

Standing with Your Legs Crisscrossed
From experience, you know standing with your legs crossed means, to keep from falling, your arms react to the slightest weight shift.

Standing with Your Legs Far Apart
Position your feet outside your shoulders and your arms are free to move anyway you want, you’re stable, but your mobility is limited.

But You Start Your Motion on One Foot?

For the first time anywhere, we present this reality; When perched on one foot, your mind substitutes your knees for your feet.

No Conflict … Knee Separation
By ending your front leg lift with a separation between your knees, your mind naturally stabilizes your weight between your knees and, consequently, keeps your arms free to move the way you want. 
Once your front leg reaches its highest point, the slightest arm action causes your body to move.

To begin your delivery, you open your front shoulder to your target. As a result, your body spins down the mound and, by plan, to stop from hurting yourself, your throwing arm instantly makes a throwing action and your throwing hand comes through the same release window on every pitch.

Conflicts … No Separation between Your Knees
When you end your front leg lift with your front knee even with or behind your back, your mind instinctively centers your weight over your back foot. You’re able to move your arms, but, as you do, your body stays in place.

To begin your delivery, you must shift your weight toward your target. Only when your front foot gets back on the ground does your body stop using your throwing arm for balance. As a consequence, you reduce the chance your throwing arm comes through the same release window from one pitch to the next.

The Pro Pitching Institute eliminates your conflicts!!!

The progression featured on the ProPitchingInstitute.com web site uses your body’s natural tendencies to maximize your ball-to-strike ratio.

If, after you use this progression for a couple of weeks, you don’t find yourself throwing more strikes, I'll do two things.
  • First, I’ll waive the monthly $15 fee an outsider pays for my professional guidance and,
  • Second, I’ll use what you send me to personalize a program that’ll fix the roadblocks standing in the way of you throwing more strikes.

Know another Pitcher struggling to achieve their pitching dreams, make sure to tell them about the  ProPitchingInstitute.com.

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

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Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Maximizing your strike-to-ball ratio is a double-edged sword.

When you begin trusting your first few pitches after an adjustment, you stop wasting your time and quickly find yourself throwing more strikes than ever.

You have a goal and your body also has a goal. 
  • Your goal is to throw strikes at will. 
  • Your body’s mission is to keep your “center line” (the imaginary line running from your nose to your belly button) upright. 
Until your body’s mission satisfies your pitching needs, you’ll struggle to maximize your ball-to-strike ratio. 

What connects these two goals? 
The connective tissue between the two are the undeniable physical, psychological and physiological rules of nature. 

Physical  These are the forces impacting your body. 
  1. Gravity determines your center line angles. 
  2. When you twist around your center line and your foot plant stops your rotation, the torque you create whips your throwing arm into release. 
Physiological – Your body’s normal functions. 
  1. Your mind is driven to keep your center line upright and balanced between your feet. 
  2. When you pivot around your center line, your mind instantly and quickly works to reposition your shoulders over your hips. 
Psychological – Your mind responds to your physical state. 
  1. Your mind works 50,000 times faster than you can think. 
  2. While your brain works to balance your body, you lose control of your movements. 
How do you use these factors to maximize your ball-to-strike ratio? 
When you make the right adjustment and your new movement is in synch with the rules of nature, your center line tilts less. 

This means ...  
  • When an adjustment is the right adjustment, over your next 3 pitches, your reduced center line tilt means less effort and more strikes. 
  • When an adjustment isn’t right, your unacceptable results remain unacceptable and serve notice that this adjustment isn’t going to improve your ball-to-strike ratio? 
When you begin trusting your first few pitches after an adjustment, you stop wasting your time and quickly find yourself throwing more strikes than ever. 

The Pro Pitching Institute cuts through the noise and distractions!!! 
The progression featured on the ProPitchingInstitute.com web site uses the Laws of Nature to teach you how to maximize your ball-to-strike ratio 

If, after you use this progression for a couple of weeks, you don’t find yourself throwing more strikes, I'll do two things. 
  1. First, I’ll waive the monthly $15 fee an outsider pays for my professional guidance and, 
  2. Second, I’ll use what you send me to personalize a program that’ll fix the roadblocks standing in the way of you throwing more strikes. 
Know another Pitcher struggling to achieve their pitching dreams, make sure to tell them about the  ProPitchingInstitute.com. 

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

Copyright © 2019 

Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Are you allowing yourself to be great?


It takes a short time to learn how to spin into your foot plant. Once mastered, it takes another couple of weeks for you to develop the confidence that your ball will end where you want.

There’s only one hurdle to overcome before your pitching becomes more effective than you ever dreamed possible!

How did you get where you are today?

To begin, let’s juggle different degrees of how you think with various levels of competency.

Stage 1: Unconscious incompetence - When you first get involved with pitching, it all seems so simple. Just get your throwing hand to come through the same spot on every pitch and you excel.
Your formula for success is simple. You see what others do, and you copy it. It’s at this point that reality sets in. You really don’t understand as much as you think you do and, worst yet, you don’t understand why it’s not working???

Stage 2: Conscious incompetence – Once you realize there are things you don’t know; you try to figure out the difference between the pitches that do what you want and the ones that don’t.
You listen, watch and learn. To improve your results, you keep trying things, keep the things that seem to work and throw out the things that don’t.

Stage 3: Conscious competence – Over the years you develop muscle memory and a “feel” for challenging the hitters you face. At this stage you think you’re in control, but to use a car analogy, you spend more time looking into the rearview and side mirrors than looking through the windshield. 

Spend more time looking through the windshield and your wildest pitching dreams will become your reality.

Elite Pitchers pitch on a different level: Unconscious Competence

To understand “unconscious competence”, picture a spinning top.
  • You know where the outer edge of the top will be on any given revolution.
  • However, when the rate of spin slows down and the top begins to wobble, it becomes very difficult to predict with any certainty where the outer edge will be during any one rotation?

Every pitching motion is a single top spin.
  • When you know what it takes to spin your body into your foot plant, just like the top, your movements force your throwing hand to move through the same release window on every pitch and, consequently, your ball travels into your target.  Your movements into your foot plant means, without thinking about it, the baseball goes where you want with the movement you expect.
  • When you wobble into your foot plant, you can’t know with any certainty where your release window will be nor where the baseball will end up. Let his happen and you remain at your current level of competence.


When you’re “unconsciously competent”, you no longer stress over where your ball will end up and achieve the pitching success others only hope to find!


The Pro Pitching Institute teaches unconscious competence!!!

It takes a short time for the progression featured on the ProPitchingInstitute.com web site to teach you to spin into your foot plant. Once mastered, it takes another couple of weeks for you to develop the confidence that your ball will end where you want.

If, after a couple of weeks, you still don’t believe your ball will travel directly into your target, I'll do two things.
  • First, I’ll waive the monthly $15 fee an outsider pays for my professional guidance and,
  • Second, I’ll use what you send me to personalize a program that’ll fix the roadblocks standing in your way.

Know another Pitcher struggling to achieve their pitching dreams, make sure to tell them about the  ProPitchingInstitute.com.

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

Copyright © 2019