Back-chaining guarantees pitching success!

Back-chain your way to pitching excellence.

Back-chaining is looking at a chain reaction in reverse. 

Back-chaining is a very simple, very precise and extremely effective way to achieve your pitching dreams. You start with a desired outcome (in pitching, this boils down to location), then move backwards to determine the actions that’ll get you where you want to go.

1. Back-chaining is looking at a chain reaction in reverse.You start with a desired outcome (in pitching, this boils down to location), then move backwards to determine the actions that’ll get you where you want to go.
2. How do you create location?You stop your throwing hand from coming through different release windows.
3. How do you get your throwing hand to come through the same release window?
   You stop using your throwing arm to offset your stride.
4. How do you free your throwing arm from offsetting your stride?You stop striding.
5. How do you stop from striding?You rotate out of your front leg lift. (As your body rotates down the mound, your body’s “fight or flight” mechanism instinctively uses your stride to protect you from falling on your nose. Also, not coincidentally, your stride length and direction become non-issues.)
6. How do you rotate out of your front leg lift?You end your front leg lift with your weight centered on a spot just in front of your back foot.
7. How do you center your weight just in front of your back foot?Before your front foot comes off the ground, you plant your feet under your hips, center your hands and flex your knees.

 Back-chaining systematically eliminates any reason for you to miss your intended target.

Back-chaining supercharges your learning curve.

After back-chaining, your pitching chain is guaranteed to produce the results you expect, you want, and you need to succeed in a sport built around failure.

1. Your footwork creates your front leg lift.
2. Your front leg lift makes rotation possible.
3. Your rotation turns your current throwing action into a sustainable, location-producing reaction.
4. Your throwing (re)action locates your pitches, produces very late ball movement and challenges the best hitters to make solid contact with any pitch you throw.

 Back-chaining simply and efficiently produces the very precise and thoroughly effective results you need to succeed at the highest levels.

Stop gambling with your pitching future!

When you follow the Pro Pitching Institute’s “Winning Pitch Location Strategy^©”, you expect each pitch to end up where you want and with the movement that’ll challenge every hitter to make solid contact with any pitch you throw.

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How your location impacts your throwing arm health?

Your shoulder and hip alignments at foot plant determine whether you expect your ball to travel into your target or hope your ball go where you want. 

The first option means your throwing arm is injury resistant. The latter makes you very injury prone.

At foot plant, your shoulders and hips are open

When you land your foot plant with your hips more open to your target than your shoulders, your body has no choice but to use your throwing action to realign your shoulders over your hips^1.1.. 

Because your throwing action is a natural reaction^1.2., your free and easy motion delivers every pitch directly into your target without doing any damage to your throwing arm ligaments.

Notes:
1.1. Your body wants to keep your hips and shoulders over one another.
1.2. Let your shoulders face in one direction and your hips in another, before you can think about moving any body part, your body automatically and instinctively uses your far arm (throwing arm) to realign your hips and shoulders.

At foot plant, your shoulders and hips are closed

When you land your foot plant with your shoulders and hips closed, your front toe will be pointing toward your target.

Your front toe pointing toward your target commands your body to open your hips^2.1..

Your front toe opening your hips and prompts your shoulders to begin their realignment process^2.2.. Your realigning process begins of your throwing action.

Notes:
2.1. Every movements alters your shoulder/hip alignments.
2.2 As soon as you move, your body instantly works to realign your shoulders and hips.
2.3. You interrupt this realignment process and small ligament tears and fraying begin to form in your far arm (throwing arm).

Here’s your problem … your front-toe-generated hip rotation determines your body’s natural arm slot^2.2.. When your natural arm slot fails to produce the results you need to be competitive, to produce more acceptable results, you interrupt your natural alignment process^2.3. Changing your natural arm slot^2.3. begins generating the small throwing arm ligament tears and fraying that makes you extremely injury prone.

Injury resistant throwing action are here!

When you follow our “Winning Pitch Location Strategy^©”, you end your stride with your shoulders and hips open to your target and, by doing this, you turn your throwing action into a naturally healthy and location-producing reaction.

Want to know more? Contact me.

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How Your Stride Impacts Your Pitch Location?

Strides that corrupt location

The way your body works … When you walk, one leg moves forward and the arm on the opposite side moves back. Also, once you take a step, you can’t take another step until both feet are firmly planted on the ground.

When pitching, end your front leg lift with your weight centered over your back foot and, to move toward your target, you’re forced to stride.  When you stride, just like when you walk, your body uses your throwing arm to offset your stride.

As soon as your throwing arm moves behind your body, your throwing action begins from random positions. Even worse, anytime there’s a one-inch difference in starting points from one pitch to the next, you expand your target area by seven inches.

Therefore, when you stride, your arbitrary throwing arm paths mean you never really know where any one pitch will end up?

Not striding creates location

The way your body works … When an ice skater comes out of a spin, the skater’s far arm automatically swings around their body. With the same spin rate, the instant the skater’s foot stops their spin, their body whips their far side hand through the same spot every time.

When pitching, end your front leg lift with your weight centered just in front of your back foot and you’ll be able to spin down the mound. Much like a skater, your body responds with two entirely spontaneous, location-producing reactions.

• First, your body’s urge to keep you from hurting yourself forces your front foot back on the ground.
• Second, your front foot hitting the ground stops your spin, whips your throwing arm around your body and drives your throwing hand through the same productive release point on every pitch.

In a nutshell, your location begins with your front leg lift, moves into a spin and ends with you knowing each pitch will end up where you expect.

Don’t Stride, Locate.

When you follow our “Winning Pitch Location Strategy^©”, you spin out of your front leg lift, use much less effort to produce better results and put yourself on track to surpass your wildest pitching dreams.

Want to know more? Contact me.

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Stop grinding and start shining!

Your inner ear determines your location

Your inner ear is responsible for your balance. Your movements send signals to your inner ear. Your inner ear then tells your body what it needs to do to keep you in balance.

You continue to grind when, as you move down the mound, your inner ear uses your throwing arm to balance your body.

You stop grinding when, coming into your foot plant, your inner ear keeps your throwing arm free to respond to your lower body activity.

What is your “inner ear” measuring?

Anytime your nose stays over your bellybutton your inner ear won’t use your throwing arm for balance.

You stop grinding when you come into your foot plant with your nose over your bellybutton. From this position, your inner ear frees your throwing arm to respond to your lower body. At foot plant, to get your body back in balance, your inner ear dictates you make a throwing action where your ball will automatically travel directly into your intended target.

You continue to grind when you come into your foot plant with an upper body tilt. When this happens, at foot plant, your inner ear uses your legs to bring your upper body back to vertical. With a vertical core, your body is in balance. Once in balance, your inner ear frees your throwing arm to complete your motion and, consequently, your throwing action becomes an unsupported, independent action.

The right adjustment at the right time

How and when you adjust your movements changes the signals you send to your inner ear.

You continue to grind when, as you move into your foot plant, your new movements fail to bring your nose over your bellybutton, but there can be some good news. When your adjustments bring your nose/bellybutton closer to vertical into your foot plant, your inner ear won’t use your throwing arm as much for balance and your target area will shrink.

You stop grinding when, coming into your foot plant, your change brings your nose over your bellybutton. Do this and you spontaneously reduce your target area to the size of your receiver’s glove.

Pro Pitching Institute Pitchers don’t grind

By following our copyrighted pitch location protocol, the Pro Pitching Institute shows you how to send your inner ear the right messages, keep your throwing arm free to respond to your lower body and force you to deliver every pitch into your target.

Contact us to find out more.

Skip Fast
Teaching Pitching Coaches How to Teach Pitch Location
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“Untrained” Pitching Coaches Block Progress

Pitching contains a tragic failure loop.

Pitching Coaches drive Pitchers to self-coaching and self-coaching drives Pitchers to Pitching Coaches.

This makes the simple task of a Pitcher bringing his throwing hand through the same sustainable and highly effective release window almost impossible.

Self-Coached Pitchers

Self-Coached Pitchers …

• Understand how their body works,
• Feel how their body reacts to itself and
• Have a natural process that has them adjusting their next pitch results to how they felt themselves move during their last pitch.

Self-Coached Pitchers continue this process until their location is as competitive as they feel their results need to be.

When the Pitcher’s self-adjustments don’t work, these Self-Coached Pitchers seek out a Pitching Coach.

Pitching Coaches

Pitching Coaches are “anointed”.

When someone believes an individual can revive or energize another person’s pitching results, the individual is officially “anointed” as a Pitching Coach. Sadly, no formal training is required!

“Anointed” Pitching Coaches …

• See the way their Pitcher’s body move,
• Relates what they see to how they want the Pitcher’s delivery to look and
• After comparing what they see to what they think is right, the Pitching Coach asks their Student to make a seemingly random adjustment to their last motion.

When a Pitching Coach’s efforts don’t produce the results the Pitcher expects, the Pitcher either goes into self-coaching mode or finds another Pitching Coach. Ironically, the new Pitching Coach gives their Pitcher’s a fresh set of self-coaching goals. When these goals don’t work, the Pitcher looks for yet another Coach to boost their results.

Pro Pitching Institute (PPI) Trained Location Specialists

PPI Location Specialists follow a copyrighted pitch location protocol. The PPI process trains Location Specialists to …

• Know how their Pitcher’s body works,
• Understand how their Pitcher’s body reacts to itself and
• Combine the above with a systematic process proven to get their Student’s throwing hand to come through the same release window on every pitch.

With every adjustment, a Location Specialist following the PPI Location Protocol© quickly improves the ratio of the Student’s total pitches traveling into their intended target.

Want to become a more effective Coach or Pitcher?

The PPI teaches ‘anointed’ Pitching Coaches how to teach their pitching Students to deliver each pitch into their intended target.

The PPI also uses the same location protocol to teach individual Pitchers to far exceed their wildest pitching dreams.

If either of these options would improve your coaching skills or your pitching results, you’re invited to contact “Skip Fast for next steps.

Skip Fast
Teaching Pitching Coaches How to Teach Pitch Location
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Win the pitching game within the game

No matter the game, unless you know the rules, you’re not going to win.

Pitching is no different. When you “try” or “hope” to win at pitching, you don’t know the rules, won’t locate the ball and, very quickly, can’t find roster spots.

What are the rules?
When you know the rules and have the winning strategy, you win all the time!!!

The rules for maximizing your velocity/throwing arm speed
The physical laws of nature dictate you maximize your throwing arm speed by getting your lower body to whip your throwing arm into release.

The rules for improving location
The only way to improve your location is to focus on and understand gravity’s impact on your positions and movements. By doing this, gravity won’t need your throwing arm for balance and, consequently, your lower body can whip your throwing hand through the same release window on every pitch.

The rules to making effective adjustments
Changes within your front leg lift are the only changes you should make. The signals your front leg lift sends to your brain determines your throwing arm path. When you fail to manage your front leg lift, you can only “try” and “hope” to do better?

How do you know you’re winning?

You’re winning when, with each adjustment, you ……

• Improve your throwing arm speed while you see your worst misses consistently finish closer to your target.
• End your front leg lift with your weight pounding down on a spot just in front of your back foot.
• Instantly enhance your strike-to-ball ratio.

Bottom-line, you’re winning when you try less and succeed more!

 Stop trying and start doing

Change your current mindset and you’re guaranteed to attract next-level attention right now!

Velocity
Stop trying to maximize your velocity. Instead, use gravity to your advantage, keep your arms uninvolved with your balance and, as you come out of your starting position, make sure to engage your lower body.

Location
Stop using your last pitch result to drive your next-pitch arm slot. Instead, develop a process where, without aiming, you know your pitches have a greater chance to travel directly into your intended target.

Adjustments
Stop trying to change your actions as you move down the mound. Instead, manage your results through your positions/movements into your front leg lift.

Stop searching for a way to win the pitching game!

The progression featured on the ProPitchingInstitute.com web site obeys the rules of the pitching game, shortens your learning curve and, without hurting what you do so well, instantly improves your pitch location.

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 Pitch Location Specialist 
E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-281-2596

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Your next 10,000 motions determine your future

Everything in pitching is black and white

Your mind constantly monitors your posture and movement patterns. Your mind makes sure you respond to a specific posture and movement pattern in a very specific and very predictable way.

This predictability lets you use your positions and movement patterns to turn your throwing action into a highly efficient and very sustainable response.

How to develop sustainable location?

You force your mind to process a specific posture/movement combination that’s proven to bring your throwing hand through the same release window every time you throw a pitch.

You rehearse these same postures and movement patterns 10,000 times and you’ll come to expect every pitch to travel directly into your target.

Your process becomes such a habit that you become THE Pitcher who, every time you take the mound, keeps their Team close enough to win.

How do you recognize this ONE process?

When you find your ONE process, your ball travels directly into your intended target without the receiver’s glove moving.  Again, it’s black and white. Either your pitches go where you want or they don’t!

You’ve found your ONE process when, on one pitch, you miss your target by an unacceptable distance and throw the next pitch directly into your target over 75% of the time.

Anything less than achieving these measurements will compromise your next pitch location and will shorten your pitching future.

How do you find the ONE process that works for you?

You find the ONE process to practice 10,000 times by systematically eliminating your worst misses.

Anytime you miss your target by an unacceptable distance, you find the position/movement pattern breakdown and fix it.

When a Pitcher asks a knowledgeable source for help, finding the ONE process happens very quickly.

When a Pitcher associates themselves with someone unfamiliar with the way the body works, finding the ONE process becomes a long and frustrating pursuit.

How are you going to use your next 10,000 pitches?

The progression featured on the ProPitchingInstitute.com web site gets you very close to the ONE process you want to practice 10,000 times, shrinks your release window and teaches you how to follow any poor outcome with a pitch that travels directly into your target.

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

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