“Contact me if you’re aiming at the target!” – Coach Skip Fast, 25+ Years Coach Pitchers. 

The Goal: A Motion Where You Don’t Have to Aim

A stable head that moves forward promotes balance, visual focus, consistent mechanics, and efficient energy transfer, while a head that moves forward disrupts these critical factors.

Desirable Head Movement means you never aim.

Improved Balance

  • Your head moving down and forward contributes to overall balance and stability throughout the delivery.
  • Your head moving down and forward is much more injury-resistant than a head that moves forward.
  • Your head moving down and then forward maintains the body’s center of gravity, leading to the same release point and more pitches going right to the target.

Enhanced Visual Focus

  • Moving your head down and forward allows for a more precise and consistent visual focus on the catcher’s mitt.
  • Your head moving down and forward is crucial for accuracy and command.

Consistent Mechanics

  • Your head moving down and forward promotes a more repeatable and consistent throwing motion.
  • Your head moving down and forward reduces unnecessary variables that can affect the release point and ball movement.

Kinetic Chain Efficiency

  • Your head moving down and forward allows the rest of the body to efficiently transfer energy from the upper body through the core into the throwing arm.
  • Your head moving down and forward focuses on keeping the head still and aligned with the spine until the glove hand comes into play.

 Problematic Head Directly Coming Forward means you aim to ball.

The Motion

  • Your head moving forward without first moving down leads to a motion where the pitcher falls forward.
  • Without your lower body firing, your head moves forward without first moving down and rotating your upper body, then an independent throwing arm delivers the ball.

Disrupted Balance

  • Moving your head forward without first moving down shifts the body’s weight, making it impossible to maintain balance and control.

Inconsistent Release Point

  • Your head moving forward without first moving down affects the ball’s release point, leading to inaccuracies.

Increased Stress

  • Your head moving forward without first moving down places added stress on the neck and upper back.

Loss of Visual Focus

  • Moving your head forward without first moving down causes the eyes to move forward and lose focus on the target.
Coach Skip Fast, owner of the Pro Pitching Institute, uses your responses to recreate your motion—a motion in which you send your pitches to your target with uncanny regularity.

You’ll then understand a motion’s correct timing and weight transfer.