How to Produce the Best Pitching Results Ever?

What does a naturally productive throwing action look like?

A naturally automatic throwing action looks like this!

Should I ask you to make an imaginary throwing action, your entire body simply, naturally and automatically pulls your throwing hand into your make-believe release.

Miraculously, every time you make this throwing action, your throwing hand moves through the same spot.

That’s exactly what you want out of your pitching motion ... entirely natural, totally spontaneous and extremely repeatable.

How your “functional” motion can quickly turn “dysfunctional”?

When you “try” to deliver each pitch directly into a target, your very “functional”, totally natural and extremely repeatable motion turns into a “dysfunctional” mess and here’s why?

Let’s say I move back a few yards, hold my hand up to give you a target and ask you to use your natural throwing action to deliver the ball directly into my hand.

You do everything you did before and (ugh!) you watch the ball miss your target???

When I give you a second chance to hit my target, you compensate for your inadequate arm slot by consciously changing your natural movement pattern.

How I keep your “functional” functional?

You, like everyone, possess a natural throwing action where, every time you make a throwing action, your entire body pulls your throwing hand through the same productive release point all the time.

To keep you delivering every pitch directly into your target, I teach you the field-tested movement patterns that’ll force your body to pull your throwing hand through the same tiny, yet extremely productive, release window.

How you think and what you see measures your results.

No matter what anyone tells you, you have a dysfunctional delivery when ...

• You miss your target and, to get your next pitch to go and do what you want, you change your arm slot.
• You can’t trust any one pitch to go and do what you want.
• You don’t regularly see consecutive strings of pitches traveling into your intended target.
• Your bullpen sessions are consumed with “trying” to fix stuff.

When you can honestly expect each pitch to go and do what you want, you can be assured your body is naturally and automatically driving your pitching results.

How you spend your pitching career is up to you?

You can either …

• Waste your pitching career “trying” to find the right movement patterns that’ll produce the results you know you need or
• Ask me to show you the movement patterns that are guaranteed to supercharge your pitching career!

If the second choice sounds best, let’s talk.

Skip Fast
“The Best Pitching Instruction Ever^©” Author and Coach
E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
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What makes us the best pitching instruction anywhere?

Balance, simplicity and location.

Balance is a natural occurrence.

Your body is driven to use your arms for balance. Therefore, the only time you can move your arms the way you want is when your weight is centered within your body.

Pitching is simple.
On the surface, you find a way to bring your throwing hand through the same productive spot on every pitch. Here’s where it gets complicated. Your throwing hand can only come through the same spot when you end your stride with the imbalance we help you create.

Finally, it’s all about location.
As a by-product of the location we teach, you can expect to keep every Hitter guessing about pitch speed and movement. Do this and the chances any Hitter drives any pitch becomes more and more unlikely.

You come to us throwing “darts” and leave throwing a “javelin”

A “dart thrower”.
A “dart thrower”, like any arm-only athletic event, uses just their throwing arm, forearm and wrist to send each dart toward their target.

In pitching, when you end your stride with your body in balance, your delivery mirrors that of a “dart thrower”. Your balance as you end your stride keeps your throwing arm free to deliver the ball toward your target.

What indicators tell you your motion resembles a “dart thrower”?

Your motion resembles an arm-only “dart thrower” when ...

• You land in a “power position”.
• You can’t end your stride with an open front shoulder without hurting your results.
• You miss your target by a lot on one pitch and can only “hope” your next pitch travels into your target.

A “javelin thrower”.
A “javelin thrower”, like any full-bodied athletic event, uses their entire body to generate their throwing action.

In pitching, your motion is like a “javelin thrower”, when you end your stride with a planned imbalance. It’s this imbalance that, to get back in balance, forces you to make a productive throwing (re)action.

No matter your age or skill level, in less than 5 minutes, we guarantee to turn your hit-or-miss throwing action into a sustainably productive throwing (re)action where …

• You can expect each pitch to travel directly into your target.
• Should you miss your spot, you know how to deliver your next pitch directly into your Catcher’s target.
• You challenge the best hitters to make solid contact with any pitch you throw.

We guarantee exemplary results.

There’s 3-ways our Pitchers keep the best hitters more off-balance than any arm-only Throwers.

1. You always show the hitter a fastball arm speed.

No matter the pitch called, your full-body delivery shows the same arm speed on every pitch. By comparison, if you’re an arm-only Thrower, your arm speed varies from one pitch to the next. Lower level Hitters won’t pick this up, but as you climb the baseball ladder, changes in arm speed tip pitches.

2. Without fail, your pitches break as close to the plate as humanly possible.

No matter what, your ball is going to take the same path into your Catcher’s target, but the energy your full-bodied motion generates causes your ball to break much closer to the plate than when you complete your delivery with just your upper body..

3. On every pitch, your Catcher places his glove in an unhittable location and you expect the ball to travel directly into his target.

The “javelin thrower-like” throwing (re)action you generate makes it much more likely you’ll bring your throwing hand through the same tiny release window. Consequently, you deliver a greater percentage of your pitches directly into your Catcher’s target. However, with your throwing arm working by itself, you can’t know with any certainty where any one pitch will end up.

Your location tells all.

When you full-body delivery sends each pitch into your target, you maximize your throwing arm speed, your ball breaks closer to the plate than usual and you can be assured your fastball arm speed won’t tip your pitches.

Want this to describe you? Contact me to get the best pitching instruction anywhere!

Skip Fast
“The Best Pitching Instruction Ever^©” Author and Coach
E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
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Cell or Text: 856-281-2596

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What’s your plan, man?

You can’t succeed without a plan

When you have a goal, but fail to have a plan, you make random and arbitrary decisions where every choice has a consequence and every consequence sends your results in a different direction.

In pitching, when you completely miss your target and you don’t have a plan, you’re going to make an arbitrary adjustment to your next pitch arm slot.

Ever wonder why your results vary so much? The answer is simple … It’s because you make changes on the fly and you don’t think through the long-term consequences of what you’re doing!

Alert - You don’t have time to put together a plan!

Now, a bit of disturbing news!  Should you be starting your plan from scratch, it’ll take you upwards of 10 years to come up with a decision tree that’ll produce the results you need to challenge the best hitters!

You don’t have the time to make an arbitrary adjustment, track the results, make a second adjustment, compare the results, make a third adjustment, compare every result and continue this process until you get the results you’re looking for.

You don’t have the time you need to do the physiological, neurological and psychological research that’ll make your decisions less arbitrary and more focused?

Building a plan is so time-consuming and such a back-breaking process that, by the time you have a workable plan, your pitching career will be nearing its end.

Does the program you follow have a viable plan?

Always better … With a productive pitching plan, occasionally, a single pitch will miss your target by a lot, but, overall, every adjustment you make gets you closer and closer to the results you want to see.

Never worse … If, when you make an adjustment, sometimes of your results are better and sometimes they’re worst, your plan has holes in it and, at some point, it’ll destroy your pitching career.

Want an MLB field-tested plan?

If the answer to this question is “yes”, you can ask me to use the powerful relationships between your movements (causes) and your corresponding reactions (effects) to unlock the invisible pathways proven to keep your pitching career moving in the right direction.

Want to achieve your pitching dreams? Contact me.

Skip Fast
“Winning Pitch Location Therapy^©” Author and Coach
E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-281-2596

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How much common sense goes into your pitching?

Common sense driven

Common sense tells you every action produces a predictable physical reaction.

1. You take a step and your other arm moves back.
2. You lean to the right and your left arm moves away from your body.
3. You lift your leg and your weight ends up over your foot.
4. You twist your shoulders and your hips follow.
5. When you feel like you’re going to fall, your body keeps you safe.

Common sense tells you that, when you watch any pitching motion, all you see is a bunch of physical reactions.

Common sense prompts you to ask, “what movements will turn your final physical reaction into a sustainably productive throwing action?”

You answer this question with 2-common sense observations. First, the only true decision you make is where you place your feet. Second, just like walking a balance beam, gravity takes control of your physical reactions.

What is your pitching future?

Common sense tells you one last thing. Your pitching career is so short you need to control gravity now, not next season, not next month, not next week now.

To make this happen, common sense tells you you need a Coach who knows how to use gravity to your advantage.

Common sense measurements

All that matter is that the way you physically react to your movements delivers your pitch directly into your intended target.

If an angle fails to match a measurement appearing in some large sample, what does it matter as long as you challenge hitters to make solid contact with any pitch you throw?

Common sense tells you chasing any measurement other than location is a waste of time. Your time is better spent reinforcing and refining the movements proven to produce your physical throwing reaction.

Common sense coaching

If you can’t find a Coach who knows how to use gravity to driver your results, virtually overnight, the common-sense decisions contained in the “Winning Pitch Location Strategy^©” are guaranteed to take your throwing hand through the same productive release point on every pitch.

Want to achieve your pitching dreams? Contact me.

Skip Fast
“Winning Pitch Location Strategy^©” Coach and Mentor
E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-281-2596

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The Final Word on “Closed” and “Open” Front Shoulders.

Just so we’re on the same page

Command occurs when there’s an extremely high probability that your next pitch will go directly into your target. Command turns you into the-most-sought-after commodity in baseball.

Control occurs when there’s an elevated chance you’re going to throw a strike, but you really don’t know with any certainty where any one pitch will end up. Control makes you ordinary.

The birth of “a closed front shoulder”

You notice that, when you land your foot plant with an “open front shoulder”, you struggle to control your pitches.

You also note that, when you land your foot plant with a “closed front shoulder”, even though you’re not using your lower body, you do have more control over your pitches than with an “open front shoulder”.

Your conclusion becomes, to throw more strikes, to be more competitive, you must land your foot plant with a “closed front shoulder”.

When you decide to land your foot plant with a “closed front shoulder”, you’re settling for “control” and  continually searching for “command”.

Where does “command” come from?

“Command” comes from your lower body whipping your throwing hand into release, but ironically, to make this happen your foot plant must feature an “open front shoulder”.

To appreciate this, you must understand that your shoulders move your hips. You can demonstrate this for yourself by standing on one leg, flexing your back knee and twisting your shoulders. The instant your shoulders twist your hips rotate.

“Command” comes from your shoulders spinning your body into your foot plant. In the blink of an eye, the torque your lower body creates rockets up your core and into your throwing arm. Your throwing arm reacts with the whipping action that produces the sustainable “command” you’re forever searching to find.

Revisiting your “closed front shoulder”

Armed with this information, you now know that, when you land with a “closed front shoulder”, your lack of shoulder activity turns your lower body movement into an afterthought.

Consequently, with a “closed front shoulder”, the only thing you can do is throw the ball and, with your throwing arm working by itself, you can’t know where any one pitch will end up!

Discover “command”.

A “closed front shoulder” is the least direct path to the pitching legacy you dream of having. However, virtually overnight, every movement we teach in the “Winning Pitch Location Strategy^©” forces your “open front shoulder” to take your throwing hand through the same productive release point on every pitch.

Want to achieve your pitching dreams? Contact me.

Skip Fast
“Winning Pitch Location Strategy^©” Coach and Mentor
E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-281-2596

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How you’re innocently blocking your improvement?

What you know.

You spend a huge chunk your life with both feet touching the ground.

What you don’t realize is that your subconscious is continually monitoring your balance, constantly using your legs to balance your body and, when in balance, allows you to move anyway you want, anytime you want.

Because your subconscious makes your balance seem so natural and automatic, you come to believe you have complete control over your movements.

There are different rules when one foot comes off the ground.

When balanced on one foot, it’s easy to believe you have the same total control over your actions as you do on 2 feet, but this can’t be further from the truth.

When perched on one foot, to compensate for your other leg not being there to balance your body, your subconscious begins manipulating your arms, legs and torso.

Every time your subconscious goes into this balancing routine, you lose conscious control of your movements. Only when your subconscious senses your body is back in balance do you have the 2-legged control over your movements that you’re used to.

In  the process, by thinking you can move the same way with one foot on the ground as with two, you destroy your pitching results, shorten your pitching career and risk throwing arm distress.

Why you can’t succeed?

In theory, based upon the way you know your body works with both feet anchored on the ground, there seems to be no justifiable reason you can’t bring your throwing hand through the same productive release point on every pitch.

However, when you treat the way your body works on one-foot the same as with both feet, you complicate your results, never know where any one pitch will end up and make trial-and-error the foundation for any improvement you might see.

We teach success.

Trial-and-error is the least direct path to the pitching legacy you dream of having. However, virtually overnight, every movement in the “Winning Pitch Location Strategy^©” uses your one-leg posture to take your throwing hand through the same productive release point on every pitch.

Want to achieve your pitching dreams? Contact me.

Skip Fast
“Winning Pitch Location Strategy^©” Coach and Mentor
E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-281-2596

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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.

Skip Fast
“Winning Pitch Location Strategy^©” Coach and Mentor
E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-281-2596

#ElitebyChoice

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