“Slide Steps” Don’t Work!

The way your body works

When you move down the mound, you’re going to use your throwing arm to offset any forward weight shift.

When your body uses your throwing arm for balance, you can’t complete your delivery until your front foot comes back to earth and you center your weight between your feet.

All this takes time and during this time and, at normal speed, you give runners every chance to steal on you.

“Slide steps” solve the stealing issue, but create a location issue

To speed your journey into release and stop runners from stealing on you, you increase the distance between your feet, lift your front foot and slide down the mound. 

With a slide step, you force your throwing arm to move a lot quicker than normal speed.

Consequently, by pushing your throwing path to its limits, your slide step solves the issue of holding the runner but makes it nearly impossible to know where any one pitch will end up.

Why would you want to “slide step”?

When you slide step, you end up holding the runner, but risk missing your target over the plate and having your opponent drive your miss.

Your job is to keep your Team close enough to win. When you slide step, you risk not doing your job and putting your Team in hole they can’t climb out of.

Stop having to “slide step”

My “Winning Pitch Location Strategies^©” teach you how to not use your throwing arm for balance. Instead, how to use your throwing action for balance.

By seamlessly eliminating the need to use your throwing arm for balance, your time to the plate matches any “slide step” without compromising your pitch location. 

Have an issue with your pitch location when you “slide step”? Let’s talk!

Skip Fast
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Pitch Location MUST Be an Expectation

Only when you stop gravity from playing with your arm slot do you realize next level pitch location.

Gravity plays with your arm slot!

You struggle with your pitch location because your throwing arm is used to offset gravity.

Gravity produces movement combinations. Each movement sequence uses your throwing arm path in a unique way.  Consequently, when you fail to harness gravity, where your ball ends up becomes complete guesswork.

The right “feels”, the right movement tempo, overcomes gravity’s impact on your body.

“Feeling” the right tempo means you use your throwing arm path for balance in the same way on every pitch.

Any motion built around a “feel” means, unless you find the right “feel” every time you take the mound, you’re going to struggle to keep your Team close enough to win.

Pitch location becomes an expectation!

When you know how to locate your pitches, you use your throwing action (not your throwing arm) for balance.

Your structured movements counteract gravity by signaling your brain to take your throwing arm through the same path on every pitch.

By programming your mind to use your throwing action for balance, you expect each pitch to travel directly into your target all the time.

What's in your future?

You have a choice. Fight gravity or use it to your advantage.

My “Winning Pitch Location Master Strategies^©” are built to use gravity to produce the pitch location required to compete at the highest levels.

Want to know more? Let’s talk!

Skip Fast

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Your Mind Doesn’t Care about Your Location.

Your mind is a supercomputer programmed to keep your mid-line (the line from your nose to your bellybutton) at a right angle to the ground and, in extreme cases, keep you from falling over.

When your mind senses a movement, it instantaneously gets your mid-line back to vertical.

Therefore, unless your movements cater to a vertical mid-line, your supercomputer is going to control the way you see your body move.

Early Signs of Location Distress

Unless your initial foot placements consider your mid-line, when your front foot comes off the ground, your supercomputer tilts your mid-line.

To resolve this tilt, your supercomputer springs into action once both feet are on the ground.

Once your supercomputer senses your mid-line is back to vertical, you’re free to choose your next pitch arm slot.

To recap, the mid-line tilt created by your initial foot placements causes you to never know whether you’ll deliver the ball into your intended target.

Using Your Natural Programming for Location

By ending your front leg lift with an upright mid-line, you control your next mid-line tilt.

With the right choice, your supercomputer uses your throwing action to get your mid-line back to vertical.

Your supercomputer’s self-correcting capabilities forces your throwing hand to come through the same productive window on every pitch

Without consciously thinking about your location, you see your pitches travel directly into your target.

What's in your future?

You have a choice. Fight your supercomputer’s programming or use it to your advantage.

My “Winning Pitch Location Master Strategies^©” are built to use your natural programming to deliver your pitches directly into your target.

Want to know more? Let’s talk!

Skip Fast
Pro Pitching Institute
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E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-524-3248

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ROT (Return on Time) Improves your Results

Time is your most valuable asset!!!

The sooner you start focusing on your ROT, the sooner your opponents begin struggling to make solid contact with any pitch you throw.

ROT Tip #1 - Your Goal

1. The fastest way to stop wasting your time is knowing the answer to this question …

“What is the goal of your goal?”

Finding the answer to this question means you won’t bite off more than you can chew and, by realizing these smaller victories, your results will improve exponentially.

ROT Tip#2 - Care About You

2. Stop listening to everyone else’s opinion and start listening to your inner-most thoughts.

This stops you from letting others disrupt your natural flow and, with your natural flow intact, you instantly begin producing better results.

ROT Tip#3 - Think about What You Do Right

3. Think more about the things you do right than the things you do wrong.

Stop focusing on the things you do wrong and your positive energy drives better results.

ROT Tip#4 - Keep It Simple

4. Keep it simple.

Measure the frequency of your balls traveling into your target. The more your ball travels into your target, the more the measurements the baseball community wants to see falls into line.

Stop Wasting Your Time

To become YOUR best, you must set the right goals, listen to yourself, focus on what you do well and measure your location.

Do you know your ROT? Contact me to set up a time management audit and prioritization consultation.

Skip Fast
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If You’re Aiming, You’re Blaming

Location is all about your safety

Your body signals your brain about your position, alignment and movements. Your brain uses this information to keep you upright and injury free. When necessary, your brain automatically makes corrections that’ll keep you from getting hurt.

In pitching, your drive for safety becomes your advantage!

The conscious work you put into your front leg lift combines with your throwing action to force your stride.

Once you complete your stride, to get back in balance, your body goes through an array of automatic actions. To your advantage, a critical piece of this spontaneous response is your throwing action.

Continually combine your dynamic front leg lift with an automatic stride and, without any conscious thought, your movements produce the same excellent results over and over and over again.

Sustainable pitch location is complicated, but far from impossible

Ending your front leg lift in a dynamic position requires a working knowledge of every Law of Nature. 

Overlook even the most insignificant factor and, because you’re dealing with balance, you tip the scales to losing your hips, struggling with location, tipping your pitches and showing your opponent a very predictable ball path.

My “Winning Pitch Location Strategies^©” offers cutting-edge, dynamic front leg lifts that are guaranteed to engage your lower half and, without having to aim, force you to deliver your pitches directly into your target.

To be successful, you need the sustainable lower half driven location contained in my “Winning Pitch Location Strategies^©”. To find out more, contact me.

Skip Fast
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Where does pitch location come from?

Location comes from the way your body works

When you step on very slick ice, without thinking about it, your body goes into alert mode and, to make sure you don’t fall over, your arms take on a life of their own.

Your alert mode ends when you no longer need your arms for balance. It’s only at this point that you can think about how you want to move.

Therefore, when in alert mode, you have no control over your movements, but, when you no longer need your arms for balance, you have complete control over how you want to move.

Location means you want to be out-of-control

Location means …

1. Before you complete your stride, you create a moment of balance,
2. You then use a pre-planned movement to trigger your alert mode, then
3. You let your alert mode use your throwing action to get your body back in balance.

Location comes from proper preparation, understanding alert mode triggers and realizing the combination of the two makes your pitch location almost foolproof.

Location revolves around trust

Pitch location is and exercise in…

• Preparing your body to go into alert mode,
• Sparking your alert mode and
• Trusting your body to produce the pitch location everyone else is searching to find! 

If no one you know can teach you to prepare, activate and trust your body to locate your pitches, the “Pitch Location Masterclass^©” is here for you!

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A Roadmap to Pitch Location

Slight changes, big consequences

Let’s forget about pitching for a second and take a pretend trip.

• We’re in different cars driving side-by-side.
• There’s a fork in the road where the forks are separated by a single degree.
• You continue moving straight and I take the one-degree fork in the road.

At first the difference between us is very slight, but well down the road, we end up far, far away from one another.

Alter your path and you may never recover?

Your body is programmed to follow a single road map that’ll produce the location you need to constantly challenge all hitters.

Any variation from this path and you’ll never really know with any certainty where your ball will end up.

•  A small (but critical) change takes you away from your desired, location-producing path.
• Once this small change takes hold, because you’re not locating your pitches, you make another slight change.
• To compensate, in an attempt to improve your location, you continue making change after change.

In a short time, you’ve made so many changes that you get lost and challenging the hitters you face becomes virtually impossible.

The solution

My “Pitcher’s Location Masterclass^©” gives you your personal road map to productive location.

These Masterclasses give you …

• An action plan for productive pitch location.
• A vision of what your “good” looks like.
• A method to leverage the way your body is built to work.
• Long-term, productive habits.

The “Pitcher’s Location Masterclass^©” sets and keeps you on the path that’ll turn you into the Pitcher you want to be.

For more, contact me.

Skip Fast
Pro Pitching Institute
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E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-524-3248

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