INVOLVE YOUR LOWER BODY ON EVERY PITCH

Causes for NOT engaging your lower body.

Anytime any movement forces you to prematurely use your throwing arm for balance, you’ll use your throwing arm to offset any weight into your foot plant, lose your target area and shorten your competitive pitching career.

How does a lower body disconnect happen?

When some movement forces you to use your throwing arm for balance, you physically disconnect your lower and upper bodies.

Only after you sense your body back is back in balance do you free your throwing arm to complete your delivery. By this point, your body position dictates your arm slot which delays your throwing hand into release and, consequently, expands your release window.

How do you know you use your throwing arm for balance?

On every pitch, you have every intention to deliver every pitch directly into your Catcher’s target without his mitt moving while displaying the movement you expect.

When your pitches fail to end up where you want and/or behave the way you expect, you’re using your throwing arm for balance.

How do you get your lower body to drive your motion?

To get your lower body to drive a very consistent and totally productive, spontaneous throwing (re)action, you isolate and eliminate the movement causing you to use your throwing arm for balance.

I’m trained to isolate the movement that’s causing you to use your throwing arm for balance. Want to finally gain control of your next pitch, then contact me through the Pro Pitching Institute.

Skip Fast

Chief Learning Officer/Executive Director

Professional Pitching Institute

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How your pitching chain drives your results?

Do you really understand your pitching chains?

The movements you see within any Pitcher’s motion comes from the Pitcher’s instinctive drive to keep their lower body as their center of balance.

- A Pitcher with a lower body center of balance gives their body no reason to use their arms to get their center of balance back to their lower body.
- A Pitcher who moves their center of balance from their lower body causes their mind to instantaneously use their arms to bring your center of balance back to your lower body.

Every pitching chain starts somewhere.

When a Pitcher begins their motion, they do 2 things.
- They begin their motion by planting their back foot on the ground and then
- They place their front foot on the ground.

How a Pitcher performs these 2 very controllable actions tells their body which hardwired “action-reaction” roadmap their motion is going to follow.

Once a Pitcher makes a specific “action”, their hardwired “action-reaction” roadmap produces a new center of balance. Their body “reacts” to their next center of balance with another very predictable “action-reaction” roadmap response. Pitchers travel along their “action-reaction” roadmap until they get their center of balance back to their lower body.

What causes a Pitcher’s pitching chain to produce sustainable excellence?

The way a Pitcher begins their “action-reaction” roadmap dictates their center of balance as they come out of their starting position and how they come out of their starting position determines their level of success.

Productive Pitching Chains … When a Pitcher begins their motion with their lower body as their center of balance, their hardwired “action-reaction” roadmap forces them to use a glove side rotation to land their foot plant with their center of balance centered on their front hip. The Pitchers plan on their body to move their center of balance back to their lower body by making an involuntary throwing reflex. In the process, the human body’s pursuit for a lower body center of balance takes the Pitcher’s throwing hand through a totally spontaneous, very sustainable, extremely consistent release window.  

Disruptive Pitching Chains … When a Pitcher begins their motion with their center of balance away from their lower body, their hardwired “action-reaction” roadmap forces them to spontaneously use their throwing arm for balance land cause them to land their foot plant with their center of balance centered on their back hip. Unfortunately, their arm action moves their throwing arm path from what they want to a path their hardwired “action-reaction” roadmap demands their arm take.  Once their front foot gets back on the ground, their hardwired “action-reaction” roadmap moves their center of balance from their back hip to their lower body. With their lower body as their center of balance, to complete their delivery, the Pitcher must move their center of balance away from their lower body. Easily done, but due to the Pitcher having to use their throwing arm for balance earlier in their motion, the Pitcher’s throwing hand begins their throwing action from a less-than-optimal position. The result … the Pitcher’s ball doesn’t end up where they want nor behave how they want!

Any Pitcher wanting to make their pitching chain more productive, please contact me at imlookingforapitchingcoach@propitchinginstitute.com.

Skip Fast

Chief Learning Officer/Executive Director
Professional Pitching Institute

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E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-524-3248

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Expect better pitching results!

Expect better pitching results!

How often do your pitches do what you expect?

Every pitch you’ve ever thrown has an impact your next pitch result. Seeing your next pitch to travel directly into your Catcher’s mitt while displaying the movement you expect tells you your long hours of preparation were worth it.

You always execute your next pitch to the best of your ability, but you still see far too many of your pitches not end up where you want. You don’t intentionally try to miss your target, but, for some unknown reason, you continually experience these unacceptable outcomes.

Your unintentional misses indicate an issue with your preparation and, unless you make changes to the way you prepare for each pitch, hope (which isn't a recommended success strategy) becomes the foundation for your improvement plan!

Better preparation produces better pitch results.

Proper preparation automatically gets your pitches to end up where you want and behave the way you want.

Hyper productive preparation uses your body the ways it’s built to work. You use known action/reaction patterns to tell you how to permanently make your troublesome results more productive.

Ineffective preparation treats your body’s instinctive responses as if they were controllable actions. Your unplanned outcomes disappear when you consciously stop trying to change your body's involuntary reflexes.

Want to find out what better preparation looks like?
Want to discover the actions that’ll improve your results?

Contact us at imlookingforapitchingcoach@propitchinginstitute.com

Skip Fast

Chief Learning Officer/Executive Director
Professional Pitching Institute

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E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-524-3248

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What does your pitching future look like?

Without an ability to locate your pitch, your dream of becoming a Major League Pitcher fades.

Forward weight shifts.

When you begin motion with your feet wider than your hips, your motion contains a forward weight shift. Your mind senses your forward weight and forces you use your throwing arm to offset your forward weight shift. You delay your throwing hand into release, you expand your release window and you cause yourself to lose control over where your ball ends up and how your ball behaves.

Here’s the proof.

During Spring Training, you’ll see lots of Pitchers taking the mound who want to get promoted to the Majors. The biggest reason these Pitchers are still in the Minors is their inability to locate their pitches against professional hitters. When you watch a Spring Training game, you’ll notice these Pitchers all have the same footwork. Each of these Pitchers begin their motion with their feet farther apart than their hips.

Here’s more proof.

When you watch a Spring Training game, watch Spring Training game backwards.

When you see a Pitcher miss their target outside their Catcher’s body, on their next pitch, focus on their foot placements before their front foot even comes off the ground. What you’ll see is the Pitcher beginning their delivery with their feet placed wider than their hips.

Shrinking your target area is easy.

One of the many things you can do to shrink your target area to begin your motion with your feet under your hips, but, remember, many other things must happen before you’ll know how to produce sustainable location at the highest levels.

For more information about other fixes, contact me.

Skip Fast,
Pro Pitching Institute

Pitching Expert

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Who’s best for your pitching? … Pitching Coach or Pitching Analyst

Your Pitching Coach.

Your Pitching Coach’s job is to teach you how to keep your Team close enough to win. A Pitching Coach tells you what he thinks your motion should look like and uses your pitch results to remind you about what you need to do to improve your next pitch outcome.

He sees your pitch results, he sees what you do, but, unless he knows how to interpret the way your body reacts to itself, he doesn’t realize how difficult he makes it for you to accomplish the things he wants you to achieve. 

A Pitching Analyst.

As a pitching analyst, I know what “good” pitching looks like and, better yet, understand how to eliminate whatever is blocking you from achieving your pitching dreams.

I breed confidence, accelerate your development and, as we talk about your pitching, give you a clear vision of what and why you do everything you do.

My involvement is short yet quickly introduces every pitching skill you need to show you’ll be very competitive at your next-level right now!

What does a pitching analyst do?

There’s always a reason your pitch misses your Catcher’s target outside his body. Your miss tells me your pitching motion is sick.

Missing your Catcher’s target outside his body 2 pitches in a row for no known reason means you have a disease and, unless you find for a cure, your competitive pitching career is about to die.

If anyone you know realized your motion was sick, you wouldn’t find yourself missing your target by so much so often.

You want the cure what ails you; you need to ask for my help.

A pitching analyst makes you look good.

Everything I present will show your Coach what he wants to see, but I’ll teach you how to produce what he wants without talking about it or you ever thinking about it.

Instead of wasting your bullpen time working on your muscle memory, you’ll use your bullpen sessions to sharpen and reinforce our focus and, when you get the call, you’ll dazzle your Coach, your Team and the crowd.

You’ll show your Coach what he wants to see, you’ll keep your Team close enough to win and you’ll make yourself and your Coach look very good.

People may critique your outing, but no one will criticize your performance and, most likely, you’ll earn even more mound time.

Sign up today for a risk-free, Pro Pitching Institute Membership trial.

Skip Fast,
Pro Pitching Institute

Pitching Analyst

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How to locate every pitch all the time.

Scientific pitching fact

Your body is driven to keep you stable!

Instability compromises pitch location.

When your movements create an instability into the top of your front leg lift, you’re going to lose your location and here’s why?

1. To move into your foot plant, some movement creates a forward weight shift.

2. Your forward weight shift prompts your body to use your throwing arm to get your body back to stable.

3. Until your front foot gets back on the ground and your core moves to the center, your body continues to involve your throwing arm with your stability.

4. Once your body comes back to stable, you free your throwing arm to complete your delivery.

5. You’ve effectively allowed your throwing action to become in independent action.

About an independent throwing action…

1. Since your throwing arm is no longer involved with your stability, you maintain complete control over your arm slot, but, at the same time, your body wants to take your throwing hand through your natural arm slot.

2. You see your last pitch result and then use your last pitch results to influence your next pitch arm slot.

3. Since your release window is driven by 2 factors (where your body needs your throwing arm path and the throwing path you want your throwing arm to take), you lose the ability to locate your pitches, you Team needs to overcome your lack of location and, at the highest levels, your Coaches can’t count on you to follow the scouting reports.

Stability creates pitch location.

Location comes from making your throwing action an involuntary reflex to a deliberately coached foot plant body position.

1. You do this by completing your front leg lift in a stable position. 

2. Your stable front leg lift position frees your arms to bring you into an intentionally unstable foot plant body position.

3. By relying on your body’s need to get your body back to stable, your unstable foot plant forces you to make a completely spontaneous and totally productive throwing (re)action.

Want to learn how to locate every pitch you throw? Contact us.

Skip Fast,
Pro Pitching Institute

Pitch Location Specialist
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What direction is your motion taking you?

Forward momentum destroys pitching performances.

Because your body is driven to keep itself stable, moving down the mound the forces you to use your arms to get your body back to stable. Only after you get your body back to stable are you able to make a secondary throwing action.

When you let your throwing action become a secondary movement, you can only hope your eye-to-hand coordination is good enough to deliver your pitch directly into your Catcher’s target.

Forward momentum compounds your problems.  The arm slot that works for your fastball isn’t the arm slot that’ll work for your off-speed pitches and, to change speeds, you need to slow your arm speed down.

It gets worst! In make your next pitch/outing better than your last, you’re constantly fiddling with your delivery. By constantly toying with your motion, your improvement is driven by your results, not your motion and, until you make a couple of simple adjustments, your pitching career suffers.

Let your pitching motion drive your results!

By beginning your delivery in a stable position, while still perched on one leg, a planned glove side action creates a predetermined an unstable condition that forces your hips to rotate.  Your hip rotation generates another planned instability that, to get your body back to stable, forces you to make a throwing action.

As a spontaneous reaction to your hip rotation, your pinpoint location, consistent fastball arm speed and very late movement challenges the most mature hitters to make solid contact with all pitches coming out of your hand.

Your execution drives your results!

Your pitching challenges.

Once your posture at the top of your front leg lift prompts even the smallest instability, you won’t be able to get your glove side to trigger your throwing action.  You let this happen and you have no options but to let your results drive your motion.

Contact us to experience the guaranteed success associated with keeping your glove side free to trigger your throwing action.

Skip Fast,
Pro Pitching Institute

Chief Learning Officer
Web: www.propitchinginstitute.com
E-mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-524-3248