How often do you think about your mound routine?

A "good outing" is a collection of individual pitches that discourages the hitter from consistently making solid contact with your pitches.

A good mound routine is critical to your consistently "good outings".

Every mound routine tells your mind that you’re preparing to deliver your next pitch.

• You prepare for each pitch with the same action in the same order.
• Your mound routine is what works for you. 
• Only adjust your mound routine when some element causes your hips to move from level.
• You work on your mound routine every time you throw a bullpen or in a competitive setting. 
• With a consistent mound routine, you begin your motion knowing you’ve done all you need to do to execute your next pitch as best you can.
• A good mound routine breeds and builds confidence.

Following your routine limits the time you have for counter-productive thoughts.

Good mound routines include these elements.  

1. Visualize your pitch.
2.  Focus on a precise target within the catcher’s glove.
3.  A check that your initial footwork promotes level hips.
4.  Take a deep "belly" breath (compared to a chest breath).
5. Begin your motion the same way you begin every motion.
6. No matter the result, ask for the ball back and begin your routine all over again.

Instead of focusing on a good outing, a laser focus on your mound routine will make your good outings happen more and more often.

Ask me to make your mound routine more productive.

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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Why you need to personalize your movements?

Every action begins with a thought >>> Each action creates a reaction >>> Each reaction starts a chain of predictable events that end when you get your body back in balance.

The only variable in this process is the personal way you think about your actions.

• We use the way your body reacts to the actions to know whether the way you think about your actions keeps your hips level and putting you in a position to create sustainable fastball command.
• We expect every time we give you a way to think about your actions that the reaction we help you create will prompt your hips to pull your throwing hand through a consistently tiny release window.

Every time we see an action force your hips to prematurely move from level, we give you a new way to think about the movement we working on. 

1. Your reactions guide our recommendations.
2. Our recommendations keep your hips level at the top of your front leg lift.
3. Seeing your hips prematurely move from level tells me to introduce a new thought proven to produce the same action.

For a more flexible, highly efficient and extremely personal thought process, contact me.

L.A. "Skip" Fast

Independent Major League Pitching Coach
Pro Pitching Institute 

856-524-3248   


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“Coach Google”

Anytime your regular pitching coach can’t help you get hitters out, you count on the internet to help you with your motion.

• Human nature dictates, when you search the internet for solutions, you accept instruction that's consistent with your beliefs.
• When you look for solutions consistent with your beliefs, you really aren't solving anything, but you listen to "Coach Google" anyway.
• “Coach Google” is everyone’s all-knowing pitching coach.
• “Coach Google” is entitled to his own beliefs and opinions, but not his own facts.
• Your successful motion has a basis in having your hips level at the top of your front leg lift.

Any time you listen to "Coach Google" and you still struggle with your results, you're listening to the wrong stuff!

“Coach Google” continually forgets these simple facts …

• You can’t change a reaction!- As soon as you make your first movement toward the plate, your body begins reacting.  Until you get both feet on the ground and get your hips back to level, your body continues to react.  Attempting to alter you reactions as
  if they were controllable action is a complete waste of your time.
• With “Coach Google”, your improvement still turns into a DIY (Do It Yourself) project.- Unless you’ve spent 10,000+ hours looking at and understanding how your body reacts to itself, there's a very low probability you’ll ever focus on the right skill at the right point in your motion.
• “Coach Google” can’t see your hip orientations- Unfortunately, in too many cases,you obsess over what “Coach Google” thinks you need to do without seeing any improve.  So what do you do... you look for another "Coach Google" who says the same things in a different way?
• You expect “Coach Google” to help you.- You want you succeed so badly that you use your occasional successes to support your improvement, but, unfortunately, “Coach Google” does fully address your worst misses.

The mere fact you thought to reach out for “Coach Google” tells me you’re searching for answers.

• You're going to spend hours with “Coach Google” and only succeed in reinforcing what you already know.
• The only way to truly improve comes from looking at your motion in another, more basic, manner. 

"The only way to change is to decide to change!"

Contact me to take you to heights that “Coach Google” can only dream of producing.

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 mentally tough?

Mental toughness is relying on your footwork to produce sustainable fastball command.

- Your footwork is a very repeatable position.
- Your footwork involves a couple of measured movements.
- Mental toughness doesn't mean you hope to battle back when you get behind in the count.

It takes mental toughness to religiously rehearse the same movements that get you into the same front leg lift position in the same way and in the same order on every pitch. 

- The way your mind works … you do the same skills in the same order over a two to three week period and your movements become natural and automatic. 
- Within two weeks, you know every pitch is going to to into your target area.
- Now, you spend time making the mini-adjustments that refine your command even more.

A Test - You know your skill is natural and automatic when you can successfully complete the movement with your eyes closed.

Sadly, the pitching culture makes you believe only the top pitchers display mental toughness.

Fact is that, with a focus on your footwork, everyone can display what onlookers perceive as mental toughness.

- Mentally tough pitchers realize that, as long as they put their body in the right position at foot plant, they know their ball travels into their catcher's mitt.
- When in a pinch, mentally tough pitchers refuse to change what they know works.  
- They use their footwork to force their lower body to produce naturally productive results.

Only the mentally tough pitchers, the pitchers who will achieve their dreams at the highest levels, keep doing the skills they know work and this begins with their footwork. 

Contact me to become mental toughness.  

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 in denial?

Anytime you miss your target outside your catcher’s body and you fail to address what caused you to miss your target by so much, you’re in “denial”!

“Denial” is a psychological defense mechanism where you’re faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept.

Instead, despite the frequency, you insist your worst misses are a fluke. You believe your best pitches more than compensate for your worst pitches.  Worst yet, you fail to take responsibility for your misses.  In the end, you accept your worst misses are part of your game.

Your problems go deeper than this ... The more you miss your target outside your catcher's body, the greater you frequency of missing your target over the plate and, the more you miss your target over the plate, the harder it gets to attract next level attention.

You need not deny yourself.

Your hips tilting at the top of your front leg lift cause your worst misses.  On a positive note, when you use your mind's "built-in response mechanism" to handle your hip orientations, you always know how to bring the next pitch after your unacceptable result back end up in your catcher's mitt.

I use your mind's "built-in response mechanism" to tell me whether you use your lower body or throwing arm for balance and which actions must be addressed to keep your worst misses inside your catcher’s body.

To gain command of your  worst pitches, reduce the chance you miss your target over the plate and attract more next level attention, 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 and move on!”

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Are You Wasting Your Arm?

Your throwing arm only has so many live throwing action in it.
The more live throwing you make where you use your throwing arm for balance, the shorter your pitching career and the more you become a Tommy John risk.

Pitchers asking for my help discover how to measure their movements without having to throw a live pitch.

Your body, whether moving in slow motion or in the quicker competitive mode, your mind's "built-in response mechanism" lets your body react to itself in exactly the same manner.

As part of your instruction, I show you can practice your movements in slow motion, use your mind's "built-in response mechanism" cues to finish make sure you finish your motion with a naturally productive and very spontaneous throwing (re)action.

From the comfort of wherever you practice your movements, you master your motion without wasting your arm.

Instead of using your last pitch result to measure your movements, you use the way your body reacts to your actions to tell you your latest movements would dominate the hitter.

Your slow motion, spontaneous throwing reflex means...

• Your hips consistently pull your throwing hand through the same tiny release window.
• No matter your grip or release, the opposition will always see a deceptive fastball arm action.
• The additional energy your lower body channels into your throwing arm enhances your velocity and creates much later ball movement. 

Combine all of the above and you can feel confident the hitters you face will struggle mightily to make solid contact with your pitches.

By knowing how your mind's "built-in response mechanism" controls your movements, no longer is it necessary to waste live throwing action to master your motion.

• In fact, the ability to work on your movements without throwing a pitch makes developing a naturally productive throwing response happen much sooner than later.

To discover how to produce a naturally productive throwing reflex without having to make a live delivery, 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!”

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Does every new skill simplify your motion?

Today’s pitching culture does a great job in making you think how complicated your motion is to master.

Until you experience how easily your mind's "built-in response mechanism" navigates your action/reaction patterns, the collective baseball community will continue to hold you accountable to skills they never told you how to perform.

By using your mind's "built-in response mechanism" to keep your hips level at the top of your front leg lift, you discover pinpoint location, enhanced velocity, late ball movement and a deceptive arm actions.

Your challenge isn’t being successful; by using your mind's "built-in response mechanism" to drive your improvement, a complicated motion becomes simply successful.

By listening to your mind's "built-in response mechanism", your challenge turns into not letting the clutter you hear within the pitching culture creep into your thoughts and becomes staying focused on your footwork and front foot lift that guarantees superior results.

• Superior results comes from the simple thoughts proven to show advanced scouts that you’ll be immediately successful at your next level.

To perform at the highest levels, ask me to eliminate the clutter and simplify the way you think about your movements.

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!”

Pro Pitching Institute | Throwing Arm Health | Testimonials | Available Programs | Contact