Are you allowing yourself to be great?

There’s only one hurdle to overcome before your pitching becomes more effective than you ever dreamed possible!

How did you get where you are today?

To begin, let’s juggle different degrees of how you think with various levels of competency.

Stage 1: Unconscious incompetence - When you first get involved with pitching, it all seems so simple. Just get your throwing hand to come through the same spot on every pitch and you excel.

Your formula for success is simple. You see what others do, and you copy it. It’s at this point that reality sets in. You really don’t understand as much as you think you do and, worst yet, you don’t understand why it’s not working???

Stage 2: Conscious incompetence – Once you realize there are things you don’t know; you try to figure out the difference between the pitches that do what you want and the ones that don’t.

You listen, watch and learn. To improve your results, you keep trying things, keep the things that seem to work and throw out the things that don’t.

Stage 3: Conscious competence – Over the years you develop muscle memory and a “feel” for challenging the hitters you face. At this stage you think you’re in control, but to use a car analogy, you spend more time looking into the rearview and side mirrors than looking through the windshield. 

Spend more time looking through the windshield and your wildest pitching dreams will become your reality.

Elite Pitchers pitch on a different level: Unconscious Competence

To understand “unconscious competence”, picture a spinning top.

• You know where the outer edge of the top will be on any given revolution.
• However, when the rate of spin slows down and the top begins to wobble, it becomes very difficult to predict with any certainty where the outer edge will be during any one rotation?

Every pitching motion is a single top spin.

• When you know what it takes to spin your body into your foot plant, just like the top, your movements force your throwing hand to move through the same release window on every pitch and, consequently, your ball travels into your target.  Your movements into your foot plant means, without thinking about it, the baseball goes where you want with the movement you expect.
• When you wobble into your foot plant, you can’t know with any certainty where your release window will be nor where the baseball will end up. Let his happen and you remain at your current level of competence.

When you’re “unconsciously competent”, you no longer stress over where your ball will end up and achieve the pitching success others only hope to find!

The Pro Pitching Institute teaches unconscious competence!!!

It takes a short time for the progression featured on the ProPitchingInstitute.com web site to teach you to spin into your foot plant. Once mastered, it takes another couple of weeks for you to develop the confidence that your ball will end where you want.

If, after a couple of weeks, you still don’t believe your ball will travel directly into your target, I'll do two things.

• First, I’ll waive the monthly $15 fee an outsider pays for my professional guidance and,
• Second, I’ll use what you send me to personalize a program that’ll fix the roadblocks standing in your way.

Know another Pitcher struggling to achieve their pitching dreams, make sure to tell them about the  ProPitchingInstitute.com.

Skip Fast
Freelance Professional Pitching Coach
E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-281-2596

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Human nature stands in the way of your greatness

Human nature says you want to do well

The easiest way to do well is to find a good Pitcher and recreate his results.

To duplicate his results, you see what the Pitcher does and then try to make your movements look the same as the Pitcher you’re trying to copy.

No matter how many bullpen hours you spend working on your motion, no matter how much time you spend comparing videos, you can’t seem to get your results to match the Pitcher you’re trying to copy.

Even in failure, you stick with your decision to copy someone

You want so much for your decision to copy someone to be right that you literally feel intense excitement and happiness every time you see a pitch travel directly into your target.

Seems logical, but, sadly, instead of getting upset over any pitch missing your target by a lot, you dismiss your worst pitches and live for your next good result.

With a laser focus on your best results, you never find the reason your worst misses end up where they end up and you never improve the ratio of good pitches over bad.

Let your worst misses continue long enough and, eventually, you’re driven to copy a new Pitcher and start this process all over again or you find a “Plan B”.

Successful “Plan B’s” contain these elements

When you develop your “Plan B”, ask yourself these questions.

1. Since every part of your body always reacts to every other part, how will your body respond to any change in movement?
2. More importantly, how will any change impact your throwing arm path and the size of your release window?
3. Are the results produced by any one change sustainable over the next 10-days? 10-weeks? 10-months?

No doubt, developing a great “Plan B” takes a lot of work and isn’t easy, but following this path is the only way to outperform any Pitcher not willing to make this sacrifice.

An instant “Plan B”!!!

The progression featured on the ProPitchingInstitute.com web site presents a “Plan B” you can begin executing today! Beginning with your next outing, the process featured on the ProPitchingInstitute.com web site helps you instantly deliver more pitches directly into your target, immediately shrink your target area and, over time, turn you into the Pitcher others want to copy.

Know another Pitcher struggling to achieve their pitching dreams, make sure to tell them about the  ProPitchingInstitute.com.

Skip Fast
Freelance Professional Pitching Coach
E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-281-2596

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How do you pitch a gem every time you take the mound?

Show your Team you have a routine that’ll keep them close enough to win every time you take the mound and your competitive pitching career is secure.

How do you keep your Team close enough to win?

You maintain a laser-focus on your starting position and here’s why?

1. Your ability to keep your Team close enough to win measures the size of your release window.
2. Your release window is a product of your center line tilt.
3. Your center line tilt defines your weight distribution as you come out of your starting position.

Bottom-line … your center line tilt as you come out of your starting position determines whether you control the game or the game controls you.

What kind of picture does your starting position paint?

Consider your center line tilt out of your starting position as a brush stroke. Just the way combinations of brush strokes paint a picture, your combined starting positions also paint a picture.

Both are about the result.

• Painting - Only you see the individual brush strokes, but onlookers see the entire picture.
• Pitching - You understand the impact your starting position has on your performance, but when you take the mound, people only see whether you’re keeping your Team close enough to win.

When you remain focused on how your starting position impacts your center line, more and more people will recognize you for taking the art of pitching to its next level.

Realize more masterful outings.

The progression featured on the ProPitchingInstitute.com web site presents a starting position routine proven to generate a masterpiece every time you take the mound.

Know another Pitcher struggling to achieve their pitching dreams, make sure to tell them about the  ProPitchingInstitute.com.

Skip Fast
Freelance Professional Pitching Coach
E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-281-2596

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Pitching: Use Your Center Line to Predict Your Results

Your center lines.

Your center line begins at your belly button and ends at your nose.

• Your mind demands you keep or get your center line in a vertical position.

Your throwing actions.

• Your throwing action always begins with your front shoulder revolving around your head.
• Only when  your center line is vertical will your mind let you open your front shoulder toward your target.
  

Ending your front leg lift with a vertical center line

• Orientation – By ending your  front leg lift with a vertical center line, you’re able to open your front shoulder to your target.
• Throwing action – Your foot plant forces your entire body to spin around your center line.
• Release window – Your foot plant automatically brings your throwing hand through an extremely productive release window.
• Results – You use your entire body to deliver the ball into the strike zone.
• Teachability – Teaching you how to slide your vertical center line down the mound is a very teachable progression.

Ending your front leg lift with a tilted center line

• Orientation – By ending your front leg lift with a tilted center line, you force your body to do what’s needed to get your center line back to vertical.
• Throwing action – Your shoulders spin around your center line.
• Results – You results are driven on the “hope” your ball goes where you want and shows the movement you expect.
• Teachability – There’s no teaching to be done here. Your results are based upon your athletic ability and your degree of eye-to-hand coordination.

Efficient center line management.

The progression featured on the ProPitchingInstitute.com web site teaches you how to get/keep your center line in a vertical position, use your entire body to throw through your target and generate the very productive and extremely sustainable release window you need to be competitive at the highest levels.

Know another Pitcher struggling to achieve their pitching dreams, make sure to tell them about the  ProPitchingInstitute.com.

Skip Fast
Freelance Professional Pitching Coach
E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-281-2596

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Pitching: Combining the Biological with the Physical

Understanding physical balance.

To demonstrate your body’s drive to stay in balance, picture a bowl and a marble.

Gravity positions the marble at the bottom of the bowl. Every time you move the marble away from this position gravity always returns the marble to the bowl’s center of balance.

When you lift one side of the bowl, gravity moves the marble to a different position within the bowl. When you bring the bowl back to level, the marble moves back to the bowl’s center of balance.

Understanding biological balance.

Obviously, your body is more reactive than a couple of inanimate objects like the bowl and marble, but, surprisingly, your inner ear gets your body to act very much like the ball and bowl.

Your inner ear constantly monitors gravity’s impact of your body. To keep your weight (the marble) centered between your feet (the bowl), your inner ear automatically rearranges your arm, legs and torso positions.

Understanding balance and your front leg lift.

The instant your front foot comes off the ground your inner ear interprets gravity’s impact on your body.

Your inner ear positions your weight (the marble) over your back foot (a small bowl).

Ending your front leg lift with your weight directly over your back foot ends your front leg lift in an unstable, yet balanced, position. To move out of this less-than-stable position, you forced to create a controlled free fall.

Your free fall triggers your inner ear to use your throwing arm to get your body back in balance. Let this happen and you never know where any one pitch ends up?

Efficient gravity management.

There is one other bowl and marble option that creates movement while the marble stays in the center of the bowl. You rotate the bowl around the marble.

The progression featured on the ProPitchingInstitute.com web site mirrors this final scenario. You end front leg lift with your weight (the marble) in the same position as it was before your front foot left the ground and, by throwing through your target, gravity brings your throwing hand through a very productive and extremely sustainable release window.

By using your body to mimic nature’s physical rules, you expect to throw strikes!

Know another Pitchers struggling to achieve their pitching dreams, then make sure to tell them about the  ProPitchingInstitute.com.

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Freelance Professional Pitching Coach
E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-281-2596

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Anytime your weight shifts, your mind quickly picks up gravity’s threat to your stability and makes the necessary adjustments proven to bring your weight back to center.

“Hoping” you do well

In your current pitching motion, 2 weight shifts invite gravity to control your movements.

1. With your current foot placements, gravity ends your front leg lift with your weight centered over your back foot.

(With your weight centered over your back foot, gravity forces you to shift your weight toward your target.)

2.When you shift your weight toward your target, gravity uses your throwing arm to stabilize your foot plant.

A balanced foot plant means there’s no physical reason for your throwing arm to deliver the ball into your target. That said, your throwing action becomes a separate movement and you can only “hope” the ball goes where you want?

“Expecting” to do well

The simple front leg lift presented on the ProPitchingInstitute.com web site whips your throwing hand through the same tiny release window on every pitch.

When you expect to deliver every pitch into your intended target, gravity uses your throwing arm action to get your body back in balance.

1.  Your foot placements neutralize any weight shifts into your front leg lift.

2. From the top of your front leg lift, you use a throwing action to trigger a lower body rotation.

3. Your lower body rotation forces a foot plant that gives gravity the same message on every pitch … use your throwing arm action to get your body back in balance.

Gravity stabilizes your body by forcing your throwing arm action to travel through the same tiny release window on every pitch.

Want to jump-start your pitching future?

The ProPitchingInstitute.com recommendations are guaranteed to replace the “hope” you have that your ball travels into the strike zone with the “expectation” your ball will travel into the strike zone.

 

Know another Pitchers struggling to achieve their pitching dreams, then make sure to tell them about the  ProPitchingInstitute.com.

Skip Fast
Freelance Professional Pitching Coach
E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-281-2596

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Become a superior pitching force.

Truth be told, your motion looks the same as everyone else. There’s nothing within your motion that’ll tell any recruiter they can’t live another day without having you on their roster. 

Just like everyone else, you move down the mound, you land in your “power position” and your lower body involvement is your throwing arm pulling your back hip forward. 

Just like everyone else, you have no idea where any pitch is going to end up, your stats are inflated by hitters who are still learning to hit failing to drive your misses and the only thing driving your success is your ability to overcome your failures. 

Distinguishing yourself boils down to your coaching 

Have you ever considered how every pitching coach focuses on your movements as you move down the mound and never stresses your body position at the top your front leg lift? 

Think about how ...  Your body works as a single unit where your mind reads how gravity impacts your stability and, based upon the instability your actions present, knows which one of a thousand movement patterns will instantaneously stabilize your body. 

When you think in these terms, you realize ... 

Your foot placements determine your stability at the top of your front leg lift and your front leg lift stability sets the stage for the torso alignment, throwing arm path and stride length combinations that ultimately dictate your pitch release window. 

Finally, know this...  There is ONE AND ONLY ONE front leg lift position guaranteed to use JUST your throwing arm action to stabilize your body which, by plan, forces gravity to bring your throwing hand through the same release window on every pitch. 

To get into this ONE AND ONLY front leg lift position, you ...  1. Place your feet one baseball width apart. 2. Flex your knees and then place your back knee over the little toes on your back foot. 3. Lift your front knee up to and in line with your front shoulder. 4. Once you complete your front leg lift, throw the ball “through”, not “to”, your target. 

These 4 simple movements represent a very manageable coaching alternative that, by forcing gravity to use your throwing arm action to quickly (enhanced velocity) and efficiently (sustainability) stabilize your body, uses your lower body to throw strikes. 

Attracting attention! 

By using gravity to deliver each pitch into your intended target, you show recruiters one synchronized delivery that evaluators always dream they’ll find. 

You can waste your pitching career “hoping” to attract attention or you can use the 4 simple skills presented© to attract high-level talent evaluators.  

To jump-start your pitching future, visit the ProPitchingInstitute.com web site. 

Skip Fast Freelance Professional Pitching Coach  E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com Cell or Text: 856-281-2596 

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