What you don’t know that you need to know?

Your body is driven to keep itself in balance.

It’s how and when you achieve your balance that determines your pitching legacy.

Understanding what you see.

When you stride, to complete your delivery, 3 things must happen.

First, your body uses your arms to offset your forward weight shift. Next, you complete your stride. 

Finally, your legs bring your weight back to center.

To the naked eye, it looks like, the instant your front foot makes contact with the ground, you immediately begin your throwing action.

The fact is that, because your unconscious mind works 50,000 times faster than you can think, you can’t physically complete your motion until your mind stops using your arms for balance.

Once your body doesn’t need your arms for balance, as a separate and unsupported action, you’re able to complete your delivery.

When you feel a productive throwing arm tempo, you locate your pitches. When you can’t find a rhythm, you can only hope your opponent helps you get through your outing.

What you want to do!

Location begins with balance. When your body is in balance, your arms are free to move the way you want.

Before you end your stride, your movements must signal your mind that your weight is centered between your knees.

From this balanced position, you open your front shoulder to your target. This simple action lets your upper body rotation activate your lower body, your lower body to force your stride and, to get your body back in balance, your stride to use your upper body to maximize your location, throwing arm speed and ball movement.

Instead of balance standing in the way of your location, you use your body’s hardwired circuits to bring your throwing hand through the same productive release window on every pitch.

What’s your pitching legacy?

Trial-and-error isn’t the least direct path to the pitching legacy you dream of having. However, virtually overnight, every movement in the “Winning Pitch Location Strategy^©” turns your pitching dream into an achievable reality.

Want to achieve your pitching dreams? Contact me.

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Your “Righting Reflexes” Determine Location

Your “Righting Reflex” Controls Your Movements On and Off the Field 

Your body moves in a very orderly fashion. 

• Your "Righting Reflex” Always Comes First.   Before you move, your “righting reflex” makes sure your body is in balance. 
• There’s Stationary Balance - With both feet on the ground, your “righting reflex” coordinates your arm and leg movements until your weight is balanced over your base of support. 
• You also have Single-Leg Balance - Anytime you go from two feet on the ground to one, your “righting reflex” centers your weight over your back-foot.  
• Finally, there’s Moving Balance – Begin with one foot on the ground and move forward and, to maintain your balance, your “righting reflex” uses your opposing arm or leg to counter your forward movement. 
• Your movement is always secondary. Only after your “righting reflex” senses your body is in balance can you consciously move the way you want. 

Therefore, with your “righting reflex” controlling your movements, the only way to move the way you want is to carefully plan your movements.  

Your “Righting Reflex” and Your Pitching Results 

In pitching, consistent with the Pro Pitching Institute “Winning Pitch Location Strategy©”, your movement pattern ends with you knowing your “righting reflex” is going to bring your throwing hand through the same sustainable, extremely productive release window on every pitch.  

With the “Winning Pitch Location Strategy©”, when, on one pitch, you miss your target by an unacceptable distance, on the next pitch, you go back to the “Winning Pitch Location Strategy©” movement sequence and watch your next pitch travel back into your intended target. 

Every movement in the “Winning Pitch Location Strategy©” sends your “righting reflex” the right signals at the right time. Every movement builds upon the last until your “righting reflex” turns your pitching dream into an achievable reality. 

The bottom-line, follow the “Winning Pitch Location Strategy©” and the “Winning Pitch Location Strategy©” turns your “righting reflex” into the edge everyone is searching for. 

Want to use your “righting reflex” to you advantage? Contact me. 

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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.

Want to become the Pitcher you know you should be? Contact me.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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