4/28 - What part of your motion has the greatest impact on your results?
Your initial footwork has the greatest impact on your results.
Your legwork before your front foot comes off the ground determines your body position at the top of your front leg lift. From the top of your front leg lift, your body either uses your throwing arm to get your body back in balance or uses your throwing action to keep your body in balance.
When you use your throwing arm to get you back in balance, you let your drive for balance take over your throwing arm path and you’re never know for sure where any one pitch ends up. When your throwing action keeps you in balance, you can expect a large percent of your pitches to travel directly into your intended target.
Unsure how to change your initial footwork? We’re here to help.
4/21 – Without throwing, how can you
measure your pitch location?
When you make a
super-slow-motion pitching delivery, do you stride out of your front leg lift?
If this is the case,
your hands separating after you begin your stride means your biological need
for balance is using your throwing arm path to balance your stride. Let this
happen and you can’t know with any certainty where any one pitch ends up.
If you’re like the
most elite Pitchers, your upper body rotation spins your body into your stride and
your biological need for balance uses your throwing action to send your pitches
into your intended target with the ball movement you expect.
Can’t spin down the mound
from your current front leg lift? Contact me for some virtual instruction.
4/14 - Is there such a thing as an “ideal stride length”?
If you’re a Pitcher
who struggles with location, the right stride length supplies the tempo you
need to better location your pitches.
Our “Winning Pitch
Location Strategies©” produces a natural stride length proven to
eliminate tempo from your motion while you still deliver your pitches directly
into your target.
4/7 - How can you
expect a consistently productive arm slot?
You use your
biological need for balance to get you into the same leg lift position on every
motion which leads to the same movements as you move toward your target which
forces your body to move your throwing arm through the same arm slot on every
pitch.
3/31 – How do I
improve my pitch location without seeing where my ball ends up?
One of the “Winning Pitch Location Strategies©”
is practicing your delivery in slow motion. When you make your slow motion
delivery and you can’t help but end your stride with a throwing action, you can
be certain, if you were the same motion at game speed, your ball is more than
likely to finish very close to your intended target.
3/24 - How do you use
video to get better?
This is a trick question.There’s a real problem with trying
to reproduce what you see in 2-dimensions in a 3-dimensional world.
For example, when you see an individual stride in 2
dimensions, without knowing how to read his physical reactions, you have no
idea whether the person strides straight, to the right or to the left.
With this in mind, without studying how what you see in
2-dimensions relates to the 3-dimensional world, using a video to improve your
pitching can cause more issues than you realize.
Videos not working? Let our “Winning Pitch Location
Strategies©” help you turn your motion into the motion you want to
copy.
3/17 – How does balance play into my pitch location?
Picture walking a
balance beam or teetering over the support beam on a seesaw. You make any
movement and, without you thinking about it, your body automatically reacts to
the opposite side.
In pitching, when you
end your stride with your weight shifted to your glove hand side, the only way
for your body to get back in balance is to make a throwing action. Combine this
with a laser focus on your target and your body spontaneously delivers every
pitch directly into your target.
3/10 – Relative to
your back-foot, where do you want your back knee before you begin your front
leg lift?
The more your back knee is over your back foot, the greater
the probability your pitch ends up where you plan, but, to maximize their
location, we teach our Pitchers how to end their front leg lift with your
back-knee to the second base side of their back foot.
3/3- What free tool
drives every pitch result?
Gravity is a free tool for all to use. We teach you how to use gravity to your
advantage. Without knowing how to manage gravity or by merely ignoring its
existence, you’re letting gravity destroy your pitching career.
2/25 - What is the
single and most important physical choice you have to make during your pitching
motion?
Your foot placements.
Your initial foot placements drive your body position at the
top of your front leg lift and your body position at the top of your front leg
lift determines your next pitch location.
2/18 - What's the one
thing you don't do, but should be doing, that'll guarantee pitch location?
Have your hand separation out of your front leg lift begin
your movement toward your target.
When you make your first movement out of your front leg lift
your stride, you're going to use your throwing arm for balance and, consequently,
won't know with any certainty where any one pitch will end.
2/11 - What ONE thing
can you do to immediately tighten your target area?
Unless you eliminate gravity from impacting your front leg
lift, your pitch location is doomed before your front foot comes off the
ground.
2/4 - Why is it that,
even though you have a laser focus on your location, you still have trouble
with your location?
Your mind's supercomputer is programmed to keep your body in
balance. When a single movement creates an imbalance, your mind uses your throwing
arm for balance and, consequently, you never know where any one pitch will end
up. Resolve the movement creating your imbalance and you immediately tighten
your target area. Don't know which movement is causing your imbalance.
Have your own question/comment
leave it in the comment section and, when I choose your question, I’ll post
which one of the "Winning Pitch Location Strategies©" I'd
use to tighten your target area.
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like to ask and post them anytime!
Skip Fast
“Winning Pitch Location Strategies©” Author/Coach
skip@propitchinginstitute.com
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