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and we're not just talking about the hips.
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First of all, how to load to increase your pitching
velocity.
I wrote an article recently called "99 Ways
to Improve Pitching Velocity."
I definitely want you to check that out, as well.
I'll leave a link below where you can check that article out.
But in that video, one of the ways, one of the 99 ways,
was work on your load.
So I'm going to show you exactly what a good load is
and how you can work on that.
So like I said in the beginning of this video,
we're not just talking about the hips,
and we're going to get to that.
I'm going to talk about the shoulders a little bit.
But as far as the hips go in the load,
the way you want to set up is you want to set up a little bit
staggered, or, at least, this is the way I prefer to set up
and I prefer my pitchers to set up
is staggered where their back foot cuts
their front foot in half, the back foot is bent,
the front leg is straight.
Now what happens is guys tend to kind of do that
when they do that.
You don't want to do that.
You want to make sure you stay closed, OK?
So close those hips off, knock those knees in a little bit,
and that's a good set up.
Now, as far as the load goes, when we lift up,
we want to lift kind of up and back on an angle with this leg,
OK?
See how it's kind of closed.
I'm kind of showing the bottom of my foot to my catcher, OK?
That means my hips are closed, right?
I also, at the same time, kind of want to break my hips,
I call it.
Some people call it a hip dip.
Some people call it a hip load.
I just call it break the hips.
It makes it easier to understand for some guys.
So when I'm coming up, I've coming up with that angle
and I'm breaking my hips.
I don't know if you saw that little movement there.
Goes up and it's almost like I point the side of my butt
to the catcher, OK?
So it looks like this again.
Up and back, and kind of breaking those hips, OK?
As you noticed, I'm already moving down the mound.
I didn't get to a balance point and then do this, right?
I'm kind of coming up at that angle, breaking the hips,
and moving down the mound all blended into kind
of one movement, right?
Up, moving down that mound, OK?
So that's loading of the hips.
I also like to leave this leg down and back
as I start to move forward, but that's a whole other topic.
Made a few videos about that, as well.
So that's why it's important to subscribe and check out
some of my other videos.
But the other thing I want to talk
about when it comes to the load is the shoulders, right?
A lot of guys get this wrong, too.
How you want to load your shoulders when you start down
the mound, is you want to actually
have a tilt in your shoulders this way, right, uphill.
Most coaches say, no be level or get that shoulder down,
which is a big misconception.
You do want to be tilted, right?
That's going to give you a good arm path, a good shoulder tilt.
You don't want to be like this.
Obviously, that's way too much.
But you do want to have a tilt in your shoulders.
But you also want to be, not only tilted
but you also want to be closed off.
So you'll see some of the best pitchers, the high velocity
pitchers, when they go to separate,
they're going to separate 45 degrees or more.
If I'm pitching to home, there's third, here's 45.
They're going to separate this way.
See how my shoulders are slightly upward,
and I'm breaking, I'm separating it this way?
I'm still trying to pitch home, right?
But I started off on that 45 degrees
with a good shoulder angle and a shoulder tilt and a shoulder
angle, OK?
So starting closed there on our load, as well.
So don't forget to load your hips and load your shoulders.
I hope you guys like this video Hope it makes sense.
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