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Professional Pitching Solutions Produce Effective, Injury Resistant Finally, a collection of focused, solution-based articles showing you "how to" create greater success on the pitcher's mound. A Diagnosis without a Solution is Useless! "Tilt" Decreases Your Effectiveness! Glove Hand Management Solutions "Pitching Lines" Accelerate Learning Curves and Surprisingly Effective Video Analysis Injury Resistant Pitching Motions "Thinking" to Instantly Improve Your Pitching Results
A Diagnosis without a Solution is Useless! Would you make a return visit to a Doctor who makes a diagnosis without prescribing a cure to support his diagnosis? Absolutely not!!! "Tilt" Decreases Your Effectiveness! You “tilt” when your Head drifts from over your Hips. Many times, your Arm and Leg position when you begin your motion dictates whether you’re certain to “tilt” or whether you Head stays over your Hips throughout your motion. You begin your motion balanced on your Back Foot. While balanced on your Back Foot, you move your Arms or Legs. You automatically react by moving your Arms and Legs to stay balanced on your Back Foot. You’re fooling yourself if you think this natural reaction goes away during your pitching motion.
Glove Hand Management Solutions Developing a consistent release point requires you to keep your Head over your Hips as you deliver each pitch. To maintain this alignment, your Glove Hand, Front Leg and Throwing Arm need to work as one delicately balanced unit.
"Pitching Lines" Accelerate Learning Curves and Adjusting your pitching motion on the fly makes your adjustment only temporary. The best way to permanently include any adjustment involves learning you new action slowly to reinforce your Hand/Foot action producing you adjustment.
Surprisingly Effective Video Analysis Your Front Foot alignment relative to your “pitching line” indicates your motion’s weight distribution. Fail to gather your weight over your Back Foot and your Front Toe naturally moves ahead of your Front Heel.
Injury Resistant Pitching Motions When you let your weight move too far forward, too soon in your motion, you're bound to use your Throwing Arm to keep your Body in balance. Actually, you want to only use your Throwing Arm to optimally deliver the baseball to your target. You know your weight move too far forward, too soon in your motion anytime your Throwing Arm throws the ball long after your Front Foot makes contact with the ground. The delay in your Throwing Arm action definitely means you're using your Throwing Arm to balance your motion, not just to deliver the baseball to you target. You produce the same force in balanced pitching motions and pitching motions where your weight drifts too far forward, too soon. In a balanced pitching motion, the entire force within your motion goes directly into your Throwing Hand. In a less than balanced pitching motion, because your required to delay your Throwing Arm to keep your motion balance, this same force redirects itself into your Throwing Shoulder or Throwing Elbow. With your weight too far forward, too soon, not only do you struggle finding a consistent release point, but, after many out-of-balance motions, you also become extremely injury prone. To improve your ball control, ball movement and velocity, you need to eliminate the forward movement in your motion and totally rotate around your Core to maximize your results. In pitching motions generating exceptional rotation, your Glove Hand and your Front Leg move together. Also, from your Starting Position, your Head continually moves down and then moves forward when you're ready to release the energy stored in your motion. With exceptional rotation, you'll quickly notice how much smoother your motion looks and how much less effort you use to produce consistently better pitching results. PPS know how to teach you keep your Throwing Arm out of conflict, eliminate the forward movement in your motion and maximize the rotation within your motion.
"Thinking" to Instantly Improve Your Pitching Results Pitching is a mental exercise, not a physical action. Everything in pitching begins with a thought. The way you think directly mirrors your pitching results. You positively control …
Just having the right thought at the right time and in the right words improves your pitching results without you making any physical change to your motion. By merely following our mental focus, you'll see immediate improvement in your pitching results or PPS will refund the cost of your instruction.
You have to always focus on your “next pitch”, nowhere else. Paying attention to your “next pitch” keeps you focused on the “present”. As soon as you allow yourself to think about your last pitch, you move your thoughts back into your “past”, away from your "present" or allow yourself to think about the consequence of your upcoming pitch, you move your thoughts into your "future". Once out of the "present", you'll force your motion, you change your rhythm and unknowingly alter your entire pitching motion. Change your pitching motion and the pitch you deliver will always be less than desired. Think of yourself, every time you go to the mound, as an artist painting a picture. As an artist, the only way you complete your work of art is one brush stroke at a time. The only way you complete your outing is one pitch at a time. Each brush stroke is as important as the next; each pitch is an important as the next. Your focus needs to always be on your “next pitch”. Going with this thought … Your expectations must only be on the execution of your “next pitch”, not pouting over your last pitch or saying to yourself "what if I walk this batter". You throw one pitch at a time; one brush stroke at a time to create a work or art. To create your work of art, PPS shows their Pitchers how to develop a “mound routine” … a routine you use on every pitch to prepare yourself to properly execute your next pitch by staying in the present.
The foundation for your pitching motion parallels a combination of the top 20 2007 ERA Pitchers. To produce these results, these Major League Starting Pitchers produce excellent ball control, superior ball movement and exceptional velocity over many, many innings. The only way they accomplish this is by having a totally balanced, totally efficient pitching motion. A Major League pitching motion happens so quickly that slow motion analysis becomes the only way to see how they actually move during their pitching motion. When you compare your slow motion video to their videos, you readily see what sets your motion apart from theirs. You quickly see what Professional Pitching Solutions make your motion as effective as these Top Flight Pitchers. Professional Pitching Solutions bases your solutions on your personal athletic ability, flexibility and intelligence. You'll have minor variations, but Professional Pitching Solutions builds your motion's foundation extremely close to your models. Whether your motion's movements are constructive or destructive jumps right out at you when you see your slow motion pitching motion video. As long as your actions do not disrupt your Core, Professional Pitching Solutions ignore your actions and only addresses your movements that cause your disruptions.
Superior Pitching Results from Just ONE Position Your pitching motion is a series of delicately interconnected movements. Each and every movement within your pitching motion directly relates to your preceding movement and absolutely effects your next action. Only by beginning your pitching motion from a balanced Starting Position do you allow each successive movement throughout your entire pitching motion a chance to maximize your ball control, enhance your ball movement and boost your velocity. Addressing the way you begin your pitching motion immediately produces improved results. Believe it or not , your Major League Pitching Coaches, Coaches you would figure know what and how to teach, ignore your Pitcher's Starting Position and teach past your Pitcher's Starting Position. Sadly, you may be one of the many Major League Pitchers who fails to reach their true potential because your Professional Major League Pitching Coaches fails to focus on how you begin your motion. Here's an example of what we mean ... we heard one AAA Pitching Coach from a very reputable Major League Club tell his Pitcher to "land with his Front Foot pointing to his target". Based upon what you now know, the sequence of events becomes extremely predictable ...
Through no fault of his own, this Pitcher will never quite display the movements within his motion that his club, his employer, wants to see. This Pitcher becomes a free agent in no time, floats from team to team just to fill their lower level pitching needs and never realizes his dream of pitching for his Major League Team. No matter you current pitching level, you will avoid these situations and maximize your pitching potential by working with Professional Pitching Solutions. PPS keeps your entire motion balanced, from start to finish, and guarantees to improve your current pitching motion and your results.
The Optimal Way to Begin Your Motion Excellent pitching ball control, superior ball movement and exceptional velocity comes from spinning around your Core . The more vertical your Core at the time you spin to release the energy stored in your motion, the better your pitching results. Said another way, the less your bend your Waist, the greater chance you have to keep your Core (the imaginary line from center of your Head to the center of your Hips) upright. The more you keep your Core perpendicular to the ground during your entire pitching motion, the better your pitching results. Now you know what you need to do ... "stop bending at your waist". You're going to quickly find out achieving this end doesn't automatically come from just telling yourself not to bend at your Waist. You need to properly coordinate your Front Leg, Back Leg and Hands to keep your Core together when you begin your pitching motion. There's only one position where you'll begin your motion in a Starting Position with an Activated Core. Position your Hands even slightly too close or too far from your Body and you'll bend at your Waist. Fail to position your Front Knee too high or too low, too much in front of or behind your Front Hip and you'll bend at your Waist. Your Back Knee reacts to your combined Front Leg and Hand position to create it's own ideal position. Through mirror exercises, you discover a feel for your ideal Back Knee position. Now, when throwing from the Stretch, you know you've activated your Core prior to moving your Hands. Also, with a properly activate Core, your Front Foot motions never compromise your Core and always allow you to realize exceptional ball control, excellent ball movement and maximum Arm speed on each and every pitch. |
