Use the pandemic’s baseball stoppage to improve your pitch location

Fill your down time with dynamic balance.

Spontaneous pitch location relies on dynamic balance to deliver your pitches into your target.

Walking on a balance beam, riding a bike and, when properly managed, pitch location are all examples of dynamic balance.

Dynamic balance means your body is in a balanced position where, when you make a subtle arm or a leg movement, you force your body to move into an entirely different balanced position.

During your hiatus, make it a point to discover the right sequence of arm and leg movements that’ll make your throwing action part of your body’s dynamic balancing routine and produce the spontaneous pitch location required to succeed at the highest levels.

 

Don’t waste your forced isolation.

After 25+ years of studying how dynamic balance generates spontaneous pitch location, we realize one super-slow-mo pitching action accurately predicts your pitching results.

When you make a super-slo-mo pitching motion and your motion stops as your front foot hits the ground, your movements disconnect your throwing arm from your body and you can’t know where any one pitch ends up.

During your hiatus, you can work toward your super-slo-mo pitching motion ending with a throwing action and here’s a clue ...

Spontaneous pitch location is merely rearranging your movement sequence so, when you complete your delivery, your throwing arm automatically delivers your pitches into your target.

Accomplish this and, when you get back to the mound, your spontaneous pitch location is sure  to keep your Team close enough to win every time you pitch.

You have a choice.

You can go back to the mound still hoping your ball ends up where you want or you can use your baseball hiatus to have us over prepare you to produce the spontaneous pitch location you’ve been searching for all along.

Want spontaneous pitch location? Let’s talk!

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10 Pitching Time-wasters

Your pitching career is remarkably short. Therefore, how you use every second counts. To help you better manage your time, what follows is a random list of top 8 things we think aren’t worth your time.

1. Watching pitching videos. You see what the Pitcher does, but without knowing how the Pitcher does what you see him do, there’s no way to duplicate his motion.

2. Imagining a bright future. Having a vision is important, but a vision without a plan won’t help you achieve your dreams.

3. Just throwing. Instead of “just throwing”, always follow your pitching motion’s movement sequence and, by doing so, you reinforce the physical progression you use when pitching.

4. Focus on stats. You’ll spend your time and energy chasing a number. Instead, chase a movement sequence that, without thinking about it, maximizes your numbers.

5. Celebrity Coaches. Coaches who have pitched professionally and now teach others how to pitch know what they did, but, sadly, few know how to teach what they did.

6. Debate the value of One School of Thought over Another. Your body only works one way. Instead of wasting your time debating one school of thought versus another, focus on the way your body. Do this and you’ll challenge every Hitter on every pitch. 

7. Video Analysis. You know what you see, but do you understand why you see what you see and how to change it? Instead of changing what you see by trying to change what you see, study and apply the way the human body is known to work to your videos.

8. Constant Change. Instead of constantly making changes to your motion, develop a step-by-step movement sequence, stick to it and, when a disturbing trend appears, refine your movement pattern from the bottom up.
 
 

Stop wasting your time

Our “Winning Pitch Location Strategies^©” gives you a pitching plan that, instead of wasting your time, keeps your pitching career moving forward.

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How to Develop Bulletproof Muscle Memory

What do you do during your bullpen sessions?

The more your movements seamlessly connect your body parts, the more pitches you see travel into your target.

When you get to this point, you spend your bullpen sessions reinforcing the movement pattern you know works for you.

Any disconnect between any one of your body parts and, instead of using your bullpen to reinforce, your bullpen sessions turn into a location-producing work-around.

Three approaches to muscle memory.

Good – This might seem repetitive, but one bullpen approach is hoping to improve your location by improving your location.
Once you find a “feel” for your pitches, your pitches travel into your target. With this approach, when you take the mound, you’re forced to find a different “feel” for every outing. At the higher levels, while you try to find your “feel for that day, your Opponents patiently wait for you to make mistakes they can drive.

Better - You make arbitrary changes to your motion, but the issue becomes knowing whether the change improves your results?

You hold onto any change that produces the results you want to see, but without a large sample of pitches, you never know until it’s too late whether the change is right for you.

Best - You study your motion, make improvements based upon your research and, after making the adjustment, expect to see more pitches travel into your target.
With this option, there’s no guessing, hoping or trying. You simply use your bullpen session to reinforce the repeatable movement patterns that turn your results into an expectation.

Productive bullpen sessions.

The “Best” option is your goal. Discover an efficient movement pattern and you stop worrying about your results. You miss your target by an unacceptable distance and, because you have a productive movement sequence,  you can expect and see your next pitch travel into your target.

Our “Winning Pitch Location Strategies^©” teaches you the movement patterns where the expectation is for every pitch to travel directly into your target.

Want to stop trying and start succeeding? Let’s talk!

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Why you can’t locate your pitches?

Pitch location is built around dynamic balance, nature’s physical forces and the way your body works.

- Dynamic balance is balance while moving.
- Your most influential physical force is gravity.
- Your mind is built to keep your body in balance.

How these factors interact with one another

Let’s use riding a bike to demonstrate how these 3 factors tie together.

Riding a bike is a dynamically balanced action.

- Unless the ground is banked, anytime you take a turn, you can’t help but lean in the opposite direction.
- Should your front wheel run over a stone, you can’t stop from using your front wheel to keep you from falling over.

Therefore, the way you react to your environment keeps you safe, but, in the process, you lose control of how your body moves.

Why you  can’t control your throwing arm path?

In each of these easily corrected instances, the environment your movements create cause you to lose control of your throwing arm path.

- From the stretch, you begin with your feet wider than your hips, you stagger your feet or you begin your motion with your glove hand to the second base side of center.
- From the wind-up, you begin with both heels parallel to the rubber or your rocker step takes your front foot behind your back foot.

In each instance, your mind demands you end your front leg lift with your weight over your back foot.

With your weight over your back foot, to move into your delivery, you must shift your weight toward your target. In the process, gravity alerts your mind about your weight shift, uses your throwing arm for balance and makes it impossible to know with any certainty where any one pitch ends up????

Fixes are simple

The good news is that positions are easily corrected and, by doing so, your ball will travel directly into your intended target much more often.

Wondering how to use your movements to produce a more sustainable throwing arm path? Let’s talk.

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“Slide Steps” Don’t Work!

The way your body works

When you move down the mound, you’re going to use your throwing arm to offset any forward weight shift.

When your body uses your throwing arm for balance, you can’t complete your delivery until your front foot comes back to earth and you center your weight between your feet.

All this takes time and during this time and, at normal speed, you give runners every chance to steal on you.

“Slide steps” solve the stealing issue, but create a location issue

To speed your journey into release and stop runners from stealing on you, you increase the distance between your feet, lift your front foot and slide down the mound. 

With a slide step, you force your throwing arm to move a lot quicker than normal speed.

Consequently, by pushing your throwing path to its limits, your slide step solves the issue of holding the runner but makes it nearly impossible to know where any one pitch will end up.

Why would you want to “slide step”?

When you slide step, you end up holding the runner, but risk missing your target over the plate and having your opponent drive your miss.

Your job is to keep your Team close enough to win. When you slide step, you risk not doing your job and putting your Team in hole they can’t climb out of.

Stop having to “slide step”

My “Winning Pitch Location Strategies^©” teach you how to not use your throwing arm for balance. Instead, how to use your throwing action for balance.

By seamlessly eliminating the need to use your throwing arm for balance, your time to the plate matches any “slide step” without compromising your pitch location. 

Have an issue with your pitch location when you “slide step”? Let’s talk!

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Pitch Location MUST Be an Expectation

Only when you stop gravity from playing with your arm slot do you realize next level pitch location.

Gravity plays with your arm slot!

You struggle with your pitch location because your throwing arm is used to offset gravity.

Gravity produces movement combinations. Each movement sequence uses your throwing arm path in a unique way.  Consequently, when you fail to harness gravity, where your ball ends up becomes complete guesswork.

The right “feels”, the right movement tempo, overcomes gravity’s impact on your body.

“Feeling” the right tempo means you use your throwing arm path for balance in the same way on every pitch.

Any motion built around a “feel” means, unless you find the right “feel” every time you take the mound, you’re going to struggle to keep your Team close enough to win.

Pitch location becomes an expectation!

When you know how to locate your pitches, you use your throwing action (not your throwing arm) for balance.

Your structured movements counteract gravity by signaling your brain to take your throwing arm through the same path on every pitch.

By programming your mind to use your throwing action for balance, you expect each pitch to travel directly into your target all the time.

What's in your future?

You have a choice. Fight gravity or use it to your advantage.

My “Winning Pitch Location Master Strategies^©” are built to use gravity to produce the pitch location required to compete at the highest levels.

Want to know more? Let’s talk!

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Your Mind Doesn’t Care about Your Location.

Your mind is a supercomputer programmed to keep your mid-line (the line from your nose to your bellybutton) at a right angle to the ground and, in extreme cases, keep you from falling over.

When your mind senses a movement, it instantaneously gets your mid-line back to vertical.

Therefore, unless your movements cater to a vertical mid-line, your supercomputer is going to control the way you see your body move.

Early Signs of Location Distress

Unless your initial foot placements consider your mid-line, when your front foot comes off the ground, your supercomputer tilts your mid-line.

To resolve this tilt, your supercomputer springs into action once both feet are on the ground.

Once your supercomputer senses your mid-line is back to vertical, you’re free to choose your next pitch arm slot.

To recap, the mid-line tilt created by your initial foot placements causes you to never know whether you’ll deliver the ball into your intended target.

Using Your Natural Programming for Location

By ending your front leg lift with an upright mid-line, you control your next mid-line tilt.

With the right choice, your supercomputer uses your throwing action to get your mid-line back to vertical.

Your supercomputer’s self-correcting capabilities forces your throwing hand to come through the same productive window on every pitch

Without consciously thinking about your location, you see your pitches travel directly into your target.

What's in your future?

You have a choice. Fight your supercomputer’s programming or use it to your advantage.

My “Winning Pitch Location Master Strategies^©” are built to use your natural programming to deliver your pitches directly into your target.

Want to know more? Let’s talk!

Skip Fast
Pro Pitching Institute
“Winning Pitch Location Strategies^©” Author/Coach
E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-524-3248

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