fastball location | Pro Pitching Institute

Your Front Leg Lift Determines What Happens Next

Your front leg establishes the balance, direction, and timing your entire delivery depends on.

Get the lift wrong, and every movement that follows may have to compensate.

Build A Balanced Leg Lift

Begin with your feet close together, your shoulders level, and your weight balanced.

As your front leg lifts, keep your front knee even with or ahead of your front shoulder, keep your head level and your body upright.

Keep your front leg controlled and don’t let it pull your body toward the target.

Balance first. Movement second.

When Your Front Leg Lift Fails

When your front knee falls behind your hip or your body leans toward the target, balance can disappear.

Your front foot begins falling toward the ground before your throwing action develops.

Now your stride lands early, you lose momentum, and your throwing arm must compensate.

That’s not one connected motion.

Get Better Results

Your front leg lift prepares your body for the glove hand to initiate the delivery.

Let your glove hand trigger the movement. Let your hips lead. Let your front leg respond.

Don’t let gravity determine your stride. Let your sequence deliver the baseball.

Pro Pitching Institute teaches the balance and front-leg control needed for repeatable command—or your instruction is FREE. No questions. No hassles. No hard feelings.

Coach Skip Fast
Pitching Motion Corrections
856-524-3248
skip@propitchinginstitute.com
https://propitchinginginstitute.com
#ElitebyChoice

Your Glove Hand Starts the Pitch

Your throwing hand delivers the baseball, but your glove hand starts the movement that makes the throw possible.

When your glove hand fails to do its job, your throwing arm often must compensate.

The Glove Hand Leads

From a balanced starting position, your glove hand moves across your body.

As it moves, your hips respond, your stride develops, and your throwing hand prepares to deliver the baseball.

Each movement prompts the next.

Your glove hand isn’t simply pulling your glove out of the way. It’s helping organize your entire delivery.

When Your Glove Hand Fails

When your glove hand drops under your armpit or stops moving too soon, your sequence can break down.

Your front foot may land early, your hips may rotate late, and your throwing arm must hurry to find the target.

That’s compensation, not command.

Get Better Results

Let your glove hand cross your body before your stride finishes, let your hips lead, your front leg respond, and your throwing hand finishes the motion.

Don’t start your pitch with your throwing arm. Start with a balanced starting position and let your glove hand do the work.

The Pro Pitching Institute teaches you the glove-hand movement needed to deliver the baseball to your target with uncanny regularity—or your instruction is FREE. No questions. No hassles. No hard feelings.

Coach Skip Fast
Pitching Motion Corrections
856-524-3248
skip@propitchinginstitute.com
https://propitchinginginstitute.com
#ElitebyChoice

Command Before Velocity

Every pitcher wants more velocity, but velocity means very little when you don’t know where the baseball is going.

Consistently delivering the ball to your target gives velocity a purpose.

That’s why command comes before velocity.

Stop Trying To Throw Harder

When velocity becomes the goal, pitchers often add effort.

They rush their delivery, overthrow, and ask their throwing arm to create speed.

The harder the arm works on its own, the harder it becomes to repeat the same delivery.

Velocity comes from sequence.

Build Command Through Sequence

Command begins when your body repeatedly moves in the same order.

Your starting position establishes balance, your glove hand initiates the motion, your hips respond, your front leg carries the movement forward, and your throwing hand delivers the baseball.

Glove Hand → Hips → Front Leg → Throwing Hand

Your body delivers the baseball to your target..

Let Velocity Follow

When your sequence becomes repeatable, you create the conditions for both command and efficient velocity.

Don’t sacrifice direction trying to create speed.

Build command. Organize your motion. Let velocity come through sequence.

The Pro Pitching Institute teaches you the sequence needed to deliver the baseball to your target with uncanny regularity or your instruction is free. No questions. No hassles. No hard feelings.

Coach Skip Fast
Pitching Motion Corrections
856-524-3248
skip@propitchinginstitute.com
https://propitchinginginstitute.com
#ElitebyChoice

Balance Starts Before the Pitch

Your pitch begins with how you stand.

Build The Balance

A balanced starting position places your heels close together, with your weight evenly distributed between your feet.

Your feet give your body a stable foundation before you begin moving.

When you start balanced, your lower body can move efficiently, your core transfers that movement, and your throwing hand doesn’t have to compensate to find the target.

Balance → Direction → Sequence → Throw

Let The Glove Hand Trigger The Motion

Once you’re balanced, your glove hand becomes the trigger.

The glove hand moves across your body and prompts your hips to respond, the hips activate the lower body, your stride develops, and your throwing hand delivers the baseball.

Glove Hand → Hips → Front Leg → Throwing Hand

Your glove hand helps organize the movements that allow your entire body to deliver the pitch.

Get Better Results

When you begin out of balance, every movement that follows must compensate.

When you begin balanced, each movement can prompt the next.

That’s how you build repeatable command and efficient velocity without asking your throwing arm to do the entire job.

Build the balance. Move the glove hand. Let the sequence deliver the baseball.

Pro Pitching Institute teaches the balance and glove-hand movement needed to produce a repeatable throw or your instruction is FREE. No questions. No hassles. No hard feelings.

Coach Skip Fast
“Sequence Over Strength^TM” Pitching Instruction
856-524-3248
skip@propitchinginstitute.com
https://propitchinginginstitute.com
#ElitebyChoice

Your Pitch Begins Heel to Heel

Before your glove hand moves, before your front foot strides, and before your throwing hand delivers the baseball, your feet establish the balance for your entire motion.

Build The Balance

Begin with your front heel close to and even with your back heel.

This heel-to-heel relationship helps keep your front knee aligned with your front shoulder while preventing your weight and head from moving toward the target too soon.

Now your body is balanced and prepared to move in sequence.

Let The Glove Hand Start The Motion

From this balanced position, your glove hand becomes the trigger.

As the glove hand moves across your body, your glove hand prompts your lower body to move.

Your hips respond, your stride develops, and your throwing hand prepares to deliver the baseball.

The movements work together as ONE motion, and your front foot doesn’t land and then tell your arm to throw.

When Balance Is Lost

When the feet begin out of position, the head and weight can move too soon.

The front foot may land before the body is ready to throw, leaving the throwing arm to compensate and find the target.

Get Better Results

Build your balance before you build your throw.

Pro Pitching Institute teaches the balance and sequence needed to repeatedly deliver the baseball to your target—or your instruction is FREE. No questions. No hassles. No hard feelings.

Coach Skip Fast
“Sequence Over Strength^TM” Pitching Instruction
856-524-3248
skip@propitchinginstitute.com
https://propitchinginginstitute.com
#ElitebyChoice

The Impact of Proper Shoulder Alignment

Your shoulder alignment influences everything that happens after your starting position.

Proper Shoulder Alignment

When your shoulders are properly aligned with the target, your body is positioned to move in sequence.

Your lower body engages, your glove hand moves freely across your body, and your throwing hand follows a direct path toward the target.

Instead of your throwing arm creating the pitch, your entire body delivers it.

Glove Hand → HIPS → Front Leg → Throwing Hand

Proper alignment creates the foundation for better direction, efficient velocity, repeatable command, and a connected throwing action.

Misaligned Shoulders

When your shoulders begin out of alignment, everything that follows must compensate.

Your lower body struggles to engage correctly, your glove hand can’t perform its job, your shoulders open too early, and your throwing arm takes over and searches for the target.

The result?

Less command. Less efficient velocity. Less consistency.

Get Better Results

Don’t ask your throwing arm to correct a problem that began with your shoulder alignment.

Align your shoulders, engage your lower body, and let your sequence deliver the baseball.

Pro Pitching Institute teaches the shoulder alignment needed to produce a repeatable throwing action or your instruction is FREE. No questions. No hassles. No hard feelings.

Coach Skip Fast
“Sequence Over Strength^TM” Pitching Instruction
856-524-3248
skip@propitchinginstitute.com
https://propitchinginginstitute.com
#ElitebyChoice

LET YOUR BODY THROW THE BASEBALL

Throwing with your entire body produces a very different result than throwing primarily with your arm.

Your Lower Body Leads

Lower-body engagement allows energy and momentum to move through your body and into your throwing hand.

Instead of asking your arm to create the pitch, your body creates the throwing action, and your starting position makes this possible.

When your front knee is positioned in front of your front hip, you’re better positioned to maintain balance, engage the lower body, and move toward the target.

Your glove hand then triggers the movement.

With Lower Body Engagement

Your front knee begins in front of your front hip, your glove hand activates your lower body, your lower body creates direction and momentum, and your throwing hand delivers the baseball.

The result is a connected motion designed to produce greater velocity, better command, and more consistent results.

Without Lower Body Engagement

When your starting position doesn’t allow the lower body to lead, the sequence changes.

Your front leg may land too early, your lower body becomes disconnected, and your throwing arm must compensate and create the throw.

Now you’re throwing with your arm instead of your body.

Pitch Smart

Don’t make your throwing arm do your lower body’s job.

If we can’t help you get the ball to your target through remote instruction, your instruction is FREE—no questions asked.

Coach Skip Fast
“Sequence Over Strength^TM”
Remote Pitching Instruction
856-524-3248
skip@propitchinginstitute.com
https://propitchinginginstitute.com
#ElitebyChoice

FOOT STRIKE AND (NOT THEN) THROW.

The Problem: Foot Strike, Then Throw

When your front foot lands before your throwing action begins, your sequence is already compromised.

The problem often starts in your starting position.

Your balance is disrupted, your front knee moves behind your front hip, and your lower body no longer efficiently leads the throw.

Front Foot Lands → Body Stops → Arm Throws

Instead of your entire body delivering the baseball, your throwing arm must compensate.

You begin muscling the ball toward the target, which reduces command, limit efficient velocity, and place unnecessary stress on the throwing arm.

The Solution: Foot Strike And Throw

Build the motion from a balanced starting position.

Your glove hand initiates the stride, your lower body moves toward the target, and your front foot strikes as your throwing action develops.

Glove Hand → Lower Body → Foot Strike + Throw

Now the foot strike isn’t followed by the throw, your foot strike becomes part of the throw.

Your lower body, core, and throwing arm work together as ONE motion, allowing momentum to travel through the body and into the baseball.

Pitch Smart

Don’t land and then throw. Land as you throw.

When your sequence is connected, your entire body delivers the baseball with greater command, efficient velocity, and repeatability.

If we can’t help you get the ball to your target through remote instruction, your instruction is FREE—no questions asked.

Coach Skip Fast
“Sequence Over Strength^TM”
Remote Pitching Instruction
856-524-3248
skip@propitchinginstitute.com
https://propitchinginginstitute.com
#ElitebyChoice

Let Your Lower Body Lead

YOUR SHOULDERS DON’T START THE THROW

Your shoulders are the connection between the power created by your lower body and the baseball delivered by your throwing hand.

When properly aligned, your shoulders give the throwing arm a more direct path toward the target.

Less unnecessary movement means better direction, repeatable command, and efficient velocity.

HIPS FIRST. SHOULDERS SECOND.

Your shoulders shouldn’t pull your hips. Your hips should deliver your shoulders.

As your lower body moves, the hips lead the sequence.

Energy travels through the core, into the shoulders, and finally into the throwing arm.

Hips → Core → Shoulders → Throwing Hand

When the shoulders open too early, the sequence is disrupted.

The throwing arm may then compensate for movement the lower body should have created.

ALIGNMENT SUPPORTS THE ARM

Good shoulder positioning, combined with appropriate strength, mobility, workload, and recovery, can help reduce unnecessary stress on the throwing arm.

The goal isn’t to force more shoulder rotation.

The goal is to position the shoulders to receive and transfer the energy generated below them.

PITCH SMART

It starts before your shoulders ever rotate.

Your starting position creates balance, your glove hand triggers the sequence, your hips lead, your core transfers, your shoulders follow, and your throwing hand delivers.

Head → Direction → Sequence → ONE Motion.

If we can’t help you get the ball to your target through remote instruction, your instruction is FREE, no questions asked.

Coach Skip Fast
“Sequence Over Strength^TM”
Remote Pitching Instruction
856-524-3248
skip@propitchinginstitute.com
https://propitchinginginstitute.com
#ElitebyChoice

Understanding the Concepts of Core Engagement

A powerful pitch begins with the lower body, not the throwing arm.

When the lower body drives through the core and into the throwing hand, the body functions as a single connected motion, producing better command, velocity, and consistency.

Balance is critical.

Your feet establish the foundation for every movement that follows.

Proper foot position influences the front knee, overall balance, and your ability to transfer energy efficiently.

Keeping the front knee in front of the front hip allows the core to engage naturally and keeps the body moving toward the target.

Weight distribution is equally important.

As you stride, your weight moves progressively from the lower body through the core, creating the stability and momentum needed for efficient rotation.

Rather than forcing the throw with the arm, the body transfers energy from the ground to the baseball.

A strong, stable core connects the lower body to the throwing arm, controls posture, limits unnecessary rotation, and allows energy to flow efficiently through the kinetic chain.

The result is greater power, improved accuracy, better balance, and less stress on the throwing arm.

Pitch Smart.

When your glove hand initiates the sequence, your lower body drives the motion, your core transfers the energy, and your throwing arm simply delivers the baseball.

If we can’t help you consistently get the ball to your target through remote instruction, your instruction is FREE—no questions asked.

Coach Skip Fast
“Sequence Over Strength^TM”
Remote Pitching Instruction
856-524-3248
skip@propitchinginstitute.com
https://propitchinginginstitute.com
#ElitebyChoice