The Pro Pitching Institute

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Foot Positioning Promotes Location

A balanced stance with your front foot even with your back foot allows for a smooth weight transfer, proper timing with the glove hand movement, and ultimately, greater control over the throwing motion.

The front foot is critical in achieving consistent location in your throws.

Improper Timing

Starting with your front foot too far forward ahead of your hip means, to compensate with an exaggerated stride to shift your weight forward, you disrupt the throwing rhythm and make it challenging to locate the pitch.

Better Direction

A balanced stance, having your front foot even with your back foot at the start, allows you to initiate the throw with even weight distribution and leads to better control over the ball's direction.

The Glove Hand Connection

The glove hand staying back creates tension and builds up potential energy.

With your front foot balanced, your glove hand allows for a smooth transfer of energy from the lower body through the core and into the throwing arm, resulting in a more controlled and accurate throw.

Balance is Key

A balanced stance with your front foot, even with your back foot, allows for a smooth weight transfer, proper timing with the glove hand movement, and ultimately, greater control over the throwing motion.

Your movement translates to the ball consistently reaching your target with pinpoint accuracy.

Getting Your Proper Back Knee Position

The Pro Pitching Institute teaches you a foot position to prompt a throw uncanny regularity, or your instruction is free … No questions… No hassles… and no hard feelings.

Coach Skip Fast
“Command by Choice, Not by Chance”
Pro Pitching Institute
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Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Proper Back Knee Positioning Promotes Location

Your efficient power transfer allows your lower body to effectively pull your throwing arm into the throwing motion, facilitates a proper back knee position, and leads to more accurate throws.

Proper back knee positioning contributes to better balance, body control, and ultimately, a more accurate throw.

Improper Back Knee Position

When your back knee is ahead of or directly over your back foot, you disrupt your weight distribution and your body to tilts.

To adjust your body’s position mid-throw and regain balance, you change your head position as you lift your front leg.

Your tilts disrupt coordination between your upper and lower body.

You lose control of your glove work and lower body movement, and your lower body can't contribute efficiently to the throw.

You end up relying solely on your throwing arm to deliver the ball which leads to less power and accuracy.

Proper Back Knee Position

With your back knee is positioned slightly to the second base side of your back foot, your weight distribution remains centered, your body remains balanced, and you prevent tilting.

Your glove hand is in a ready position to initiate movement and the energy from your lower body through your core and into your throwing arm.

Your efficient power transfer allows your lower body to effectively pull your throwing arm into the throwing motion, facilitates a proper back knee position, and leads to more accurate throws.

Consistent mechanics translate to throws that hit your target with uncanny regularity.

Getting Your Proper Back Knee Position

The Pro Pitching Institute teaches your back knee position to prompt your throw, or your instruction is free … No questions… No hassles… and no hard feelings.

Coach Skip Fast
“Command by Choice, Not by Chance”
Pro Pitching Institute
https://propitchinginginstitute.com
856-524-3248
skip@propitchinginstitute.com
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Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Proper Footwork Promotes Location

When you lift your front foot for the throw, your leg movement positions your front foot to the home plate side of your front hip.

Two different footwork approaches in throwing mechanics highlight the importance of proper footwork for efficient power transfer and accuracy.

Wide Front Foot Drawbacks

Your front foot wider than your shoulders leads to your back knee being directly over or in front of your back foot.

When you lift your front foot for the throw, your unbalanced weight ends up over your back foot.

Balance is regained only when your front foot hits the ground, but your throwing arm is already isolated and acting alone to deliver the ball.

Your lack of connection with your lower body means you lose the benefit of efficient power transfer, and the target area expands significantly.

Back Knee Behind Back Foot Benefits

Starting with your heels together and your knees bent position your back knee behind your back foot.

When you lift your front foot for the throw, your leg movement positions your front foot to the home plate side of your front hip.

Your lower body movement through your front leg lift prompts your glove arm to initiate the throwing action.

The coordinated movement between your lower body and glove arm leads to throws that hit your target with uncanny regularity.

Getting Your Glove Hand Involved

The Pro Pitching Institute teaches your foot position to prompt your throw, or your instruction is free … No questions… No hassles… and no hard feelings.

Coach Skip Fast
“Command by Choice, Not by Chance”
Pro Pitching Institute
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856-524-3248
skip@propitchinginstitute.com
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Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Proper Glove Hand Movement

Your glove hand positions your throwing hand and, for better control, guides your throwing hand through a natural release point.

Inaccurate Throws

When your stride happens before your glove hand movement, you isolate your throwing hand and make your throwing hand work independently to get the ball near the target.

Since your throwing hand lacks guidance, the ball ends up in a wide area around the target, reducing accuracy.

Your glove hand merely reacts to the throw, giving your pitch a low chance of hitting the target.

Accurate Throws

Your glove-hand movement initiates the throwing action and prompts your throwing arm.

As your glove hand naturally turns over, your glove arm guides your throwing hand and directs the ball toward the target with greater accuracy.

Due to the glove hand guiding the throwing hand, most throws land precisely on target.

Importance of Glove Hand

Your glove hand positions your throwing hand and, for better control, guides your throwing hand through a natural release point.

Glove-hand involvement leads to a high degree of command over the throw.

In essence, your proper throwing mechanics involve initiating the throw guiding your throwing hand, allowing for greater accuracy, and controlling each pitch.

Getting Your Glove Hand Involved

Your glove hand promotes your Throwing Action and gives you exceptional command.

The Pro Pitching Institute teaches your glove hand to prompt your throw, or your instruction is free … No questions… No hassles… and no hard feelings.

Coach Skip Fast
“Command by Choice, Not by Chance”
Pro Pitching Institute
https://propitchinginginstitute.com
856-524-3248
skip@propitchinginstitute.com
#ElitebyChoice

Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Level Hips Promote Good Results

With level hips, your throwing arm and stride work together more efficiently, leading to improved accuracy and a greater consistency in throwing the ball to your target with uncanny regularity.

The Cause:

Uneven hips happen when your front heel is placed more than a baseball width away from your back heel.

Your positioning causes your front leg to naturally swing behind your front hip as you lift it and your position tilts your hips.

The Effect:

You can only throw effectively with level hips.

To achieve the level position needed for an accurate throw, uneven hips force your body to make balance adjustments.

These adjustments disrupt the natural throwing motion, affect accuracy, and hurt consistency.

The Solution:

Placing your front and back heels within a baseball width of each other encourages your front leg to lift directly towards your hip, keeps your hips level, and eliminates the need for balance adjustments.

With level hips, your throwing arm and stride work together more efficiently, leading to improved accuracy and a greater consistency in throwing the ball to your target with uncanny regularity.

In essence, starting with heels close together promotes a natural throwing motion with level hips, resulting in better throws.

Getting Your Lower Body Involved

Your level Hips promote your Throwing Action and give you exceptional command.

The Pro Pitching Institute teaches your Heels to be one baseball width apart and Hips to be level, or your instruction is free … No questions… No hassles… and no hard feelings.

Coach Skip Fast
“Command by Choice, Not by Chance”
Pro Pitching Institute
https://propitchinginginstitute.com
856-524-3248
skip@propitchinginstitute.com
#ElitebyChoice

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Consistently Hit Your Bullseye

Your front knee staying in front of your front hip allows you to direct your glove work to fire your hips and initiates the power transfer.

Just like a balanced archer consistently hits the target, proper throwing mechanics allow you to deliver the ball with accuracy and control.

Stance & Nocking the Arrow

During your front leg lift, keeping your front knee in front of your front hip is like nocking the arrow onto the bowstring. Your stable stance allows for proper "glove work".

Drawing & Releasing

Your glove work "fires" your lower body, which then drives your throwing arm.

This sequence is similar to drawing the bowstring (using your back muscles) and then releasing it to launch the arrow.

Precise Aim

Like a skilled archer consistently hitting the target, when your front knee finishes ahead of your front hip, your glove work fires your lower body, and drives the ball into the target with "uncanny regularity."

Control & Focus

Your front knee staying in front of your front hip allows you to direct your glove work to fire your hips and initiates the power transfer.

Your entire throwing motion becomes automatic, just like a skilled archer can release the arrow almost instinctively and still hit the target.

Unbalanced & Inefficient

Any variation is like an unbalanced stance in archery. You throw off your aim and makes it difficult to nock the arrow properly.

Get Help

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Coach Skip Fast
“Lower Body Involvement”
Pro Pitching Institute
https://propitchinginginstitute.com
856-524-3248
skip@propitchinginstitute.com
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Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Your Shoulders Guide Produce Exceptional Location

Maintaining level shoulders allows for a consistent and well-defined path for your throwing hand to follow.

The Role of Level Shoulders

Maintaining level shoulders at the peak of your front leg lift allows your throwing hand to follow the path guided by your glove hand and ensures smoother and more controlled movement of the throwing hand.

When your throwing hand follows a well-defined path due to level shoulders, you gain greater "command" over the throw which translates to better control and placement of the ball.

Impact of Uneven Shoulders

If your shoulders are not level at your front leg lift, your body compensates for the tilt and often manifests as adjustments in your throwing arm.

The adjustments made by your throwing arm to compensate for uneven shoulders disrupt its natural throwing motion and significantly impacts on the consistency and accuracy of your throws.

Benefits of Level Shoulders

Maintaining level shoulders allows for a consistent and well-defined path for your throwing hand to follow which is guided by your glove work and leads to throws that consistently hit your target area with "uncanny regularity."

Overall takeaway

By ensuring your shoulders are level at the peak of your front leg lift, you empower your glove hand to guide your throwing hand, leading to throws that consistently hit your target.

Better Shoulder Work

The Pro Pitching Institute teaches you to begin your motion with your shoulders level … No questions… No hassles… and no hard feelings.

Coach Skip Fast
“Lower Body Involvement”
Pro Pitching Institute
https://propitchinginginstitute.com
856-524-3248
skip@propitchinginstitute.com
#ElitebyChoice