What's up guys, Coach Madden, official trainer YouGoProBaseball.com and today we're going
to talk about how to avoid the most common throwing mistakes.
So I'm going to share with you three mistakes today that I see a lot when guys are throwing
the baseball that you shouldn't be doing, but of course I'm not going to leave you out
there like that I'm going to show you how to fix these as well and share with you some
baseball throwing fundamentals, if you will.
The first of the most common throwing mistakes that I see a lot is guys being too high, too
early with the ball and I think this is because coaches say a lot of the time “get that
arm up, get that ball up, give that arm up high,” and I think kids hear this and they
literally try to do that.
So when they go to throw they're coming up too high too early and you're just jamming
yourself up when you do that, you don't want to be up this high and then throwing down.
We actually want to be down and come up to our release point; that's the way it should
really happen, but when kids, young guys, youth players hear "get that arm up" I see
a lot of guys going like this and then they're up, then they're coming down and then they're
pushing and it's just throwing them all out of whack.
So this is the number one mistake to avoid in these baseball throwing fundamentals and
how do you fix that?
You can do a drill called Low Grab Rockers.
For low grab rockers all we're going to do is get set up in our rocker position which
is going to be our stride with our heel the heel, we're going to get nice and deep into
that positions, bending our knees sitting our butt down in there.
We're going to have a tee behind us, nice and low and then we're going to rock back,
grab this ball off of the tee so our arms nice and low and then we're going to have
to turn transfer our energy going forward and make that throw.
It really helps work on the arm action and how you time that arm action with the rest
of your body.
So it looks a little something like this.
The second of these baseball throwing fundamentals that I see jacked up all the time is that
front arm kind of flying open and down, it kind of just dies out here when the guys are
throwing, they throw this way and this front arm opens down and out flying open, no front
side kind of just lazy and flying open.
So how do we fix this problem?
We could do a drill called figure eights and all we're going to do in this arm action drill
is we're going to get set up nice athletic position, we're going to keep our hands together
right here in the middle and we're going to make a figure eight.
We're going to go past our hip, past our other hip, we could turn our feet a little bit while
we're doing these figure eights this way and then we're going to separate our hands and
throw out in front.
The reason this drill works so good for guys who kind of have a lazy front side is when
we turn back this way with our figure eights, it forces them to have this front side here
and especially if you can verbally tell them to get that arm up after they separate on
this side of the hip they're going to be able to use their front side a lot better.
So it looks a little something like this.
And the last tip or the last mistake I see a lot, it's more of a general tip or a general
thing I see and that is bad throws, misdirection so I see guys not setting their feet good
enough, not getting into the good position.
So how do we work on that?
We really just got to be aware and understand that getting our legs underneath us is so
important when it comes to making good throws.
So a lot of times we think about the arm, in fact the first two drills that we talked
about were arm things, but when it comes to throwing the legs are very important, so we
have to understand that we need to get our legs underneath us.
So if we're making that play, we really got to make sure we're getting our legs underneath
us and following our throw, getting into a good direction.
If we're here and we're off-balance and if you can't stay balanced and under control
and get your legs to where they need to be then you're not going to make good consistent
throws all the time.
You have to have your legs into a good position, you have to have strong legs, be balanced,
and you have to be an athlete.
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