Posts made in July 2025

Foot Position and Command: Mastering Your Pitching Delivery

Your motion is profoundly influenced by where your feet make contact with the ground.

Precise foot positioning ensures stability, serving as the foundational element that promotes excellent glove work and exceptional command.

Conversely, when your foot positioning is off, your entire body moves out of balance, your glove work becomes a reactionary scramble, and your command inevitably suffers.

Poor Foot Position

When your heels are too far apart, your motion immediately loses balance.

This imbalance renders your glove almost ineffective, as your body struggles to compensate, and your command will undoubtedly suffer.

Good Foot Position

However, when your heels are in line with your target and approximately one baseball width apart, your motion stays in optimal balance.

This specific alignment enables your glove hand to actively promote your motion, resulting in command with uncanny regularity.

This precise foot placement maximizes your body’s internal sense of position, providing you with the consistent feeling necessary for efficient delivery.

Pitch Smart

When your foot position sets up for your lower body to drive your throwing action, your glove work becomes a powerful asset in delivering the ball precisely where you want it.

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Coach Skip Fast
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Uncanny Accuracy: Glove Hand Precision

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Your internal feel enables precise timing and control, which optimizes rotational energy transfer and ultimately enhances accuracy and velocity.

Consequences of No Glove Hand Control

Where there’s no glove hand palm movement, the front foot is positioned poorly behind the hip, and the pitcher’s shoulders aren’t in line with his target.

In this case, the glove hand moves in a passive, uncontrolled manner and acts primarily to maintain balance.

The lack of control over the glove-hand palm leads to a larger target area and reduced accuracy.

Your Glove Hand Palm Flip Prompts Accuracy

A well-timed glove-hand palm flip with the palm facing the target allows for a smaller target area and greater accuracy.

Where the pitcher’s body is in balance, the front foot is aligned with the back toes, the front toe is toward the target, and the glove hand naturally turns over palm toward the target.

By controlling the timing and direction of the glove-hand flip, pitchers achieve a smaller target area and significantly improve their accuracy.

Pitch Smart

The specific, seemingly small action of the glove-hand palm flip is a powerful indicator of proper pitching mechanics.

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Coach Skip Fast
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Proprioception, the Kinetic Chain, and Pitching Biomechanics

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A proper balance, guided by accurate proprioceptive feedback, enables the kinetic chain to operate efficiently, resulting in optimal velocity and remarkable accuracy.

Proprioception: The Foundation of Balance and Accuracy

Fundamental to balance, proprioception is your “sixth sense” that allows your body to know its position, movement, and effort unconsciously.

You feel your center of gravity precisely over your back foot instep.

You sense the natural upward turn of its palm, guiding your throwing arm.

This means your brain is receiving clear signals about limb positions and muscle tension, allowing for smooth, coordinated movements.

Kinetic Chain: The Mechanism for Power and Direction

Driven by proprioception, the kinetic chain is the sequential transfer of energy from the ground up through the body.

Not just for balance, the glove arm plays a crucial role in the kinetic chain, counter-rotation, and directing energy.

As the lower body rotates, the glove arm’s controlled movement across your body leads the shoulder and arm, creating elastic energy, and ensuring that the force generated up the kinetic chain is directed precisely towards the target.

Pitch Smart

The glove arm’s role is indeed crucial in both maintaining balance, contributing to the efficient direction and transfer of energy through the chain.

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Coach Skip Fast
Pro Pitching Institute
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Front Knee Forward: The Key to Pitching Command

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The precise positioning of the front knee relative to the front hip has a significant impact on a pitcher’s ability to maintain a coordinated motion, which in turn leads to highly accurate throws and improved command.

The Power of Proper Alignment

When your front knee is in front of your front hip, you create the optimal conditions for the rest of your body to contribute powerfully to the throw.

Sequential Engagement

This balanced landing allows you to correctly land your stride, effectively engage your lower body to power the throw, and create a more coordinated sequence of the energy flowing smoothly from the ground up.

Arm Efficiency

Because your lower body is properly controlling the movement and generating the primary force, your throwing arm naturally stays in front of your body. It enables you to deliver the ball with uncanny regularity and precision.

Trusting the Lower Body

Significantly missing the target is often a direct indication that your throwing arm went behind your body, signaling a breakdown in balance and sequence.

Pitch Smart

By ensuring the front knee stays in front of the hip, you’re more likely to consistently hit your target and have a proper command over your pitches.

We’re so confident in our instructions that, if we can’t help you get the ball to your target via live or Zoom instruction, your instruction is FREE, no questions asked.

Coach Skip Fast
Pro Pitching Institute
https://propitchinginginstitute.com
856-524-3248
#ElitebyChoice

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