Tuesday, December 27, 2016

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
skip@propitchinginstitute.com

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


Monday, December 26, 2016

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!”

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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Sunday, December 25, 2016

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!”

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
skip@propitchinginstitute.com
  

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


Wednesday, November 2, 2016

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
skip@propitchinginstitute.com


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