How does your balance impact your results?

"Balance" means your shoulders and hips are directly one another and your hips are level to the ground.
- When in "balance", your upper body is free to move any way you want.
- With an "imbalance", you lose control of your movements until you get your body back into "balance". 
(Your "balance" response is called a "righting reflex".) 

You want to create ONE late "imbalance" - You generate ONE "imbalance" by coming into your front leg lift with your body in "balance" and then produce a planned "imbalance" that forces you to land your foot plant with your chest facing your target and your front hip lower than your back hip.

By doing this, you get back in "balance" by ...  

1. Your shoulders rotate to match your hips. (You engage your lower body.)

2. To satisfy your mind's urge to get your body back in "balance", without any effort you make totally spontaneous and naturally productive throwing action. 

No matter the pitch called, your consistent fastball arm speed, late ball movement and pinpoint command challenges your opponent to make solid contact with your pitch.

An early "imbalance" isn't nearly as effective - By ending your front leg lift with your hips tilted, you lose your lower body and end up throwing all upper body.

By ending your front leg lift with a hip tilt... 

1. You come out of your front leg lift with an "imbalance".  (With only one foot touching the ground, it becomes a physical impossibility to get your body back in "balance".)

2. Only after your front foot gets back on the ground and you get your hips back to level do you regain use of your upper body. 

3. In the process, your "balance" gives your body nothing to react to and you're forced to delivery each pitch with your shoulders whirling around your neck.

You never really know where your pitch is going to end up or whether your opponent picked on your throwing arm angle tipping your pitch. 

Now you know that the best way to have "balance" impact your results comes from your "balance" into the top of your front leg lift allowing you to generate ONE late "imbalance".

In fact, when you do this, you can use your results to measure your front leg lift.  (When you miss your target by an unacceptable distance, you merely revisit and refine your movements into your front leg lift.)

L.A. “Skip” Fast

Pro Pitching Institute
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Are you an “A” or “B” rated pitcher?

The difference between an "A" and "B" rated pitcher is like day and night.

• An "A" Pitcher's foot placements keep their throwing arm uninvolved with their balance.
• A "B" Pitcher's foot placements force them to use their throwing arm for balance.  

There's no middle ground. 

Either your body uses your throwing arm for balance or not!!!

“A” Pitchers

Overview - You’re an “A” pitcher when you know the movements to make that'll deliver every pitch directly to your target with different velocities and various movements.

There's ONE way to produce “A” performances!

Your focus – You focus on your foot placements, your front leg lift and your upper body throwing trigger.

Your foot placement choice – Your foot placements keep your hips level into the top of your front leg lift.

Your upper body – Your upper body remains uninvolved with your balance and free to move any way you want.

Your throwing trigger – You land your foot plant with a hip tilt to your glove hand side by rotating your chest toward your target out of your front leg lift.

Your throwing action – Your hip tilt forces a totally spontaneous and naturally productive throwing (re)action.

“B” Pitchers

Overview - You’re a “B” pitcher when you do well against hitters with a flaw you can exploit and/or hitters who don’t recognize and fail to drive the pitches missing over the plate.

No matter what, everyone else is a “B” Pitcher!

Your focus – You’re more focused on what you see yourself do, not the actions causing you to do what you see yourself do!

Your foot placement choice – Your foot placements cause your hips to tilt into the top of your front leg lift.

Your upper body – You need your throwing arm to offset your hip tile at the top of your front leg lift.

Your throwing trigger – Before you can complete your delivery, you need to get your front foot back on the ground and get your hips back to level.

Your throwing action – Your throwing arm works independently to bring your throwing arm through your release window.

Contact us to find out how to transform your “B” foot placements into “A” performances.

L.A. “Skip” Fast

Pro Pitching Institute

www.propitchinginstitute.com

skip@propitchinginstitute.com

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Manage your mind's “built-in response mechanism”.

Your mind's “built-in response mechanism” continually monitors your hip orientation. 

To give you a better understanding of how your mind's “built-in response mechanism” impacts your pitching, let's address your actions/reactions strictly in terms of how your body works.

In fact, the way your body reacts when you're perched atop a balance beam doesn't stop just because you're pitching!!!

How your body works on a balance beam.

1. You control the way your mind's “built-in response mechanism” reacts.
Situation- When you take a step on the balance beam, you hips have to tilt.

Your reaction - The instant your mind's “built-in response mechanism” senses your hip tilt, your mind elevates the arm opposite the lowest hip.
Controlling your mind's “built-in response mechanism” - With the proper training, you can adjust your legs to walk the beam without tilting your hips.

2. You need not lose control of your body.
Situation- When you take one foot off the beam, your mind's “built-in response mechanism” takes control of your body.
Your reaction - With only one foot on the beam, you lose your other leg's stabilizing influence on your mind's “built-in response mechanism” and, until you find a way to balance your weight over the beam, even the slightest movement changes your hip orientation. 

Controlling your mind's “built-in response mechanism” - With the proper training, there's a way to use your off leg (your front leg) to keep your hips level and stop your mind's “built-in response mechanism” from taking control of your body.

3. Making a spontaneous throwing (re)actions.
Situation - Place both feet on and perpendicular to a balance beam or line on the floor.  Once you've done this, lift one foot and then, as a separate action, take a step. 

Your reaction - As your foot lifts up and comes back on the beam (line), your mind's “built-in response mechanism” senses the subtle change to your hip elevations and demands you use your arms to get your hips back to level.  In order to complete a throwing action, you'd have to bring your back arm forward and swivel your front foot on the beam.
Using your mind's “built-in response mechanism” to make a throwing (re)action - When you lift your foot off the beam, instead of stepping forward, quickly move the same shoulder (the shoulder on the side of the front foot that's off the beam) away from the beam. 
Your mind's “built-in response mechanism”... 
1. Senses your misaligned shoulders and, to realign your hips, moves your back hip forward.  
2. As this is happening, to stop you from falling off the beam, your mind's “built-in response mechanism” places your front foot back on the beam. (It needs to be noted that your stride is a "reaction" to your front shoulder movement and not an "action".)

3. Your front foot contact with the beam instantly sends your mind's “built-in response mechanism” a signal that you landed with your front hip lower than your back.

4. To get your hips back to level, your mind's “built-in response mechanism” immediately rotates your throwing shoulder around your head and brings your throwing arm forward and across your body.  

5. Your spontaneous throwing (re)action relies upon your mind's “built-in response mechanism” predictable reaction patterns to consistently bring your throwing hand through the same tiny release window on every pitch. (Your spontaneous throwing (re)action is the source of your sustainable fastball command.)

Controlling your mind's “built-in response mechanism” - Without someone training you to finish your front leg lift with your hips level, getting mind's “built-in response mechanism” to generate a spontaneous throwing (re)action becomes a physical impossibility.

Trying to figure out how to do everything that's presented takes years or you can ask me to teach you sustainable fastball command in a matter of weeks... the choice is yours!!! 

L.A. “Skip” Fast

Pro Pitching Institute

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skip@propitchinginstitute.com

“My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”  

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One position determines your success.

Throwing arm balance 

makes sustainable fastball command a physical impossibility!

Your success hinges upon the collective baseball community addressing your hip orientation at the top of your front leg lift. 

When you complete your front leg lift with your hips off your target line and/or tilted, your mind's “built-in response mechanism” uses your throwing arm for balance.

When this happens, the throwing arm path you want your throwing arm to take conflicts with the throwing arm path your mind's “built-in response mechanism” wants your arm to take.

No matter how hard you try, the common sense thought that you can control your throwing arm path can't overpower your mind's “built-in response mechanism”.

Ask me to show you how to control your throwing arm path.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute 

856-524-3248


“My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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Discover your only path to success!

There's a huge difference between "seeing", "thinking" and "knowing" your hips are in an optimal position.

Sustainable fastball command comes from "knowing" your hips are level at the top of your front leg lift.

Seeing - You look at your hip orientation as you complete your front leg lift and see your hips level.

• You ignore the signs, as you come out of your front leg lift, that your hips really aren't level.

Thinking - You look at your hip orientation, see your hips level and use your last pitch result as confirmation.

• When you last result isn't acceptable, you do something to try and make your hips more level on your next pitch.
• You ignore the cues your “built-in response mechanism” presents that tell you exactly how to address your movements.

Knowing - You use your predictable “built-in response mechanism” reactions to tell you that your hips are level.

• You use your predictable “built-in response mechanism” reactions to take away any excuses for your hips not being level at the top of your front leg lift.
• You use your sustainable fastball command to confirmation your hip orientations.

Ask us to help you "know" how to produce sustainable fastball command.

L.A. "Skip" Fast

Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute 

856-524-3248   

“My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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Treating your reactions as actions is a waste of time.

Treating your reactions as manageable actions 

makes sustainable fastball command a physical impossibility!

The collective baseball community wants you to believe you can treat your mind's “built-in response mechanism” reactions as if they were controllable actions... which they are not!!!

Believing you can control any reaction in the middle of the cascading reactions created by your mind's “built-in response mechanism” is a complete waste of your time!!! 

The way your body works... your mind's “built-in response mechanism” takes control of your body out of your starting position. 

To experience sustainable fastball command, you forget about trying to control your uncontrollable reactions and begin using your mind's “built-in response mechanism” to manage and control of your reactions. 

Ask me to manage your mind's "built-in response mechanism".

L.A. "Skip" Fast

Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute 

856-524-3248

“My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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Are you addicted to mis-informaton?

Unless you have the stomach to embrace facts that directly contradict what you hear, think and believe, you're wasting your time reading any further.

Check this out!!!

Drew Westen, an Emory University psychologist, and his colleagues proved that when you reject facts contrary to your beliefs, your brain lights up like an addict when they get a fix.

Therefore ...

-  Regardless of the facts, you're programmed to believe what you believe.
-  The positive physical response you receive when you reject contradictory facts builds upon your drive to reject any conflicting data???

You're hardwired to discard information that contradicts your beliefs.

To improve, you need to overcome the urge to reject facts contrary to your beliefs and begin focusing on how your body actually works.

When you make a throwing action without aiming at a target, your energy naturally flows from your lower body, up your core and into/out of your throwing hand.

As soon as someone places a target a few feet away, everything changes.

When you miss your target by an unacceptable distance, common sense has you thinking you can simply change your next outcome by changing your arm slot... but you CAN'T really control your throwing arm path?

How do you control your throwing arm path?

As soon as you realize you must abandon your “common sense approach” and begin managing the messages your mind’s “built-in response mechanism” sends to your brain will you gain complete control over...

1. Your throwing arm path,
2. Your next pitch release window and
3. Your ability to challenge every opponent to drive your next pitch.

Until you embrace the fact that your your “common sense approach” doesn't work, you'll continue to struggle with your command and, at the same time, you make yourself a Tommy John risk.

To make yourself next level ready and injury resistant, contact me.

L.A. "Skip" Fast
Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute

856-524-3248


“My simple, yet extremely powerful, business rule: fix it once and move on!”

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