Hey, what's going on guys?
I get asked a bunch about good pitching drills for better accuracy.
What are some good pitching drills for accuracy when you're pitching.
I mean, I can tell you, I could say, I could give you the cookie cutter answer and say
"go do these couple drills and you'll get better at pitching accuracy", but that's not
the truth.
Ok?
It's not about the drills that you do.
Ok?
There's a couple things, four things specifically, that I want to talk about that will make you
better and more accurate in your pitching.
The first is going to be consistency.
Ok?
The more consistent you can be in your mechanics, your delivery, here on the mound, the more
consistent you're going to be in the zone with your strikes.
Ok?
So, you have to focus on how consistent you are with your mechanics.
You want to focus on finding a repeatable set of mechanics that you can repeat over
and over and over again that's going to give you the highest potential for improvement,
and also keep you free from injury and once you find that, you repeat it, repeat it, repeat
it, repeat it, repeat it so that you are better, more accurate in the zone.
Now, you don't have to be throwing a baseball when you're repeating this delivery.
Ok?
Because pitchers can only throw so much.
So you can do dry drills.
You can go through your mechanics dry, but you have to be consistent here to be consistent
there.
Ok?
Number two is conviction.
Conviction means that you have total and full belief of the pitch that you're about to throw.
Ok?
And that you're going to hit your spot.
You have to truly believe that.
If you're second guessing yourself or doubting yourself, then you're not going to hit that
spot.
If you're pitching to not fail, versus pitching to have success, then you've got a problem.
Ok?
So you've got to go out there and have the conviction and belief that you're going to
go out there and just BOOM "I'm putting this ball exactly where I'm trying to put this
ball".
Ok?
The third thing is going to be visualization.
Ok?
I saw this great thing on TV the other day.
They had this guy throwing darts.
They made him throw darts with his left hand.
He was right handed and they had him throw darts at a dartboard and they measured how
far each dart, like he threw like ten darts or something, they measured how far each dart
was away from the bullseye.
Then for one month all he did was take five minutes a day and visualize in his head.
He just sat here like this, closed his eyes, and just imagined himself throwing darts with
his left hand and hitting the bullseye.
That's what he imagined in his head.
He visualized and that's what he did for one month, five minutes a day.
He went back and his numbers improved double of what he did before.
He was twice as close each time and I think he hit the bullseye a couple of times the
second time around and he never threw another dart that whole month.
He just thought about it, visualized it.
So you can take that same, and they did that with hundreds of people.
I think it was the Austrailian Sports Institute or something like that.
You can probably look it up online but they did hundreds of people like that too.
So it wasn't just this one guy.
It was just that's what I saw on TV was the one guy.
But, do that for baseball.
Why wouldn't that work for baseball?
I wish I would've known that when I was pitching.
Imagine.
Take five minutes a day and visualize hitting that spot, hitting the catcher's glove with
all of your different pitches.
Visualize it.
I used to visualize, I was a big visualizer as far as the night before a game.
I would imagine striking those guys out, seeing those guys and doing really well on the field
but I never took five minutes a day to focus on just hitting my spots.
That would have been a tremendous help.
I wish I would have done that, I wish I would have known that.
And the last thing, number four, to be more accurate in your pitching, is to have good
body control and to have good body control you're going to need some good strength.
You're going to have to have some good coordination.
So that's where the work off the field is going to come in.
Meaning, whether you're working out.
I don't know how old you are watching this video, but if you're in high school, college,
pros, you need to really put the work into being as stable and as firm and as flexible
as you can be so that you can have the most amount of body control to be consistent here
and have the conviction here and then when you're off the field, do the visualization
and the work in the weight room.
So, I hope that helps guys.
If you want, I've got a bunch of drills, pitching drills you can look at too so if that's what,
that's the answer you were looking for you can go there but anyway, I hope that helps.
Let me know what you think.
Leave a comment below.
Join the newsletter.
If you found this video helpful, please subscribe, and then join the free newsletter at YouGoProBaseball.com