I hope this blog will be a pitching resource for parents and pitchers. There is a lot out on the internet, some good, some bad, and most I find incomplete. A magic drill, a 4 week course that gains 4-6MPH, recently 30 second reels. And I can’t imagine TikTok. I encourage you to ask a […]
Training your body to learn new things is a slow process Everyone has heard the term muscle memory. It takes 3-5000 good reps to truly learn a new motion in a way you can repeat it without serious concentration. training speed You need to train at different speeds from slow to fast. Slow motion first
The Dreaded Triangle If you do your geometry and imagine you are the pitcher standing at the right of the triangle 43 feet away. And you misalign your release by 1 degree. How much does the ball miss the center of the plate? Well for those who passed 10th grade geometry, its tangent( 1degree) times
Today we are going to look at some screen grabs of famous pitchers at diferent parts of the pitch. The Push Every pitch starts with a push off the mound. Its important to push out straight!! With both legs. This is a common misconception with younger pitchers who open up too soon. In the
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Click this link for the video https://www.breakthrewfastpitch.com/blog/pulling-vs-pushing-understanding-arm-whip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13O7VFW_L_c&t=64shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPpe3YNmnM
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Arm Whip: one of the keys to speed is arm whip. The four sequences show the general pattern of the arm required to get whip. The arm should be bent, an angle of 135 degrees or so is good. The longer this angle can be held through the transition from 12 to 9 o’clock the
How do you throw fast? Everyone wants to know! Think about driving along in a car at 10 mph and you are riding along ( without your seat belt ) and the driver slams on the brakes – you slam forward into the dashboard but you are ok. Now do that at 30, you
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnaASTBn_K4 Soon we talk arm whip. But this video is so cool. Did you know the crack on a whip is when the tip breaks the sound barrier — at 600 MPH
