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!”

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

Command comes from the top of your front leg lift.

Throwing arm balance 

makes sustainable fastball command a physical impossibility!

What the collective baseball community wants you to believe!

It really isn't “what the collective baseball community wants you to believe”, it's more about the collective baseball community not 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.

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”. 


Contact me to discover the simple adjustments that’ll free your throwing arm to produce sustainable fastball command.

L.A. “Skip” Fast

Pro Pitching Institute

www.propitchinginstitute.com

skip@propitchinginstitute.com
  

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

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Is your lower body really engaged?

Teaching lower body engagement as an "action" makes sustainable fastball command a physical impossibility!

What the collective baseball community wants you to believe!

The collective baseball community abuses your trust in them when they let you believe “you engage your lower body when, 'after' your front foot makes contact with the ground, your throwing arm pulls your back hip forward”.

To experience the sustainable fastball command associated with actual lower body engagement, your lower body rotation occurs 'before' your throwing arm comes into release.

When you see your back hip come forward as a result of your throwing arm pulling your back hip forward, the drag from your back hip naturally expands your release window.

To experience sustainable fastball command, we teach you how to make your ball release a reaction to a predetermined glove side hip tilt at foot plant.

Contact me to discover the simple adjustments that’ll get your hips to pull your throwing hand into release.

L.A. “Skip” Fast

Pro Pitching Institute

www.propitchinginstitute.com

skip@propitchinginstitute.com


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

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Are you pitching in the "present" or the "future"?

A focus on your foot placements keeps you in the present.

Before we explore your "footwork", let's talk about pitching in the "past" and "future".

Pitching in the Past 

Being in the "past" – You're pitching in the past when you say to yourself “I need to adjust my arm slot.”  Observation and Interpretation - You missed your last pitch high and left.  You need to do something to get your next pitch back to my target. You're pitching in the past, not in the present.
You have as much control over your next pitch as you did your last.  What are you going to do to get your next pitch back to your target?  Are you going to use your last pitch to guide what you’re going to try to do with your next pitch?
You're pitching in the past, not in the present.
The Solution – To pitch in the present, you condition your “subconscious” to generate the consistent movements that make a naturally productive result more likely than not.

Pitching in the Future 

A “future” example – When you say to yourself “This hitter is really good.”, you're pitching in the future.
Observation and interpretation – When you think about adjustments you have to make on your next pitch, you're pitching in the future.
You have no control over your results.  What kind of plan to you have to make a quality next pitch?  What are you going to do get your next pitch to break extremely close to the plate?  No matter your grip or release, how are you going to show the hitter a fastball arm speed? Having no control over you results forces to you pitch in the future.
The Solution - To pitch in the present, you condition your “subconscious” to generate the consistent movements that make a naturally productive result more likely than not.

Lesson learned – Pitching in the “past” or “future” forces you to not only compete with yourself, but compete with your opponent as well? 

Heck, competing against the opposition is hard enough.  Why compound the issue by competing against yourself?

A focus on your foot placement before your lift your front foot off the ground is simple.  Not only does your foot placements keep you in the present, but your foot placements automatically produce Tommy John-resistant, dominant fastball command.

Ask me to help you with your footwork.

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