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First pitching velocity drill is going to be the wall drill.
OK?
All you're going to do is get up against a wall or a fence
or somewhere that has something padded like this.
We're gonna get nice and close and we're going
to set up, stagger our stance.
You want your back foot to be about a foot of your foot away.
And then all you're going to do is get set up,
lead with that butt and go into that mound.
The only thing that should be touching the wall
is going to be the side of your butt,
not your shoulder, not your knee, not your foot.
Why is this important?
How does this pitching drill help pitching velocity?
Well, when we stay closed, and we
lead with our butt for a long time,
it helps decrease early trunk rotation, OK-- early hip
rotation.
It keeps us closed longer so that we can open up
fast and out in front.
Does that makes sense?
If we can stay closed up and coiled up
and keep all that energy in there
and then explode it open faster, we're
going to create more hip to shoulder separation
when we do get down the mound which will increase
our pitching velocity.
That's why that pitching drill is so important for pitching
velocity.
I know it seems like a very simple drill,
but if you can get that right and consistently do it
and add it into your pitching delivery,
you're going to see a lot more out of that-- you're
going to get a lot more out of that, OK, as far as pitching
velocity is concerned.
The second pitching drill to increase pitching velocity
is going to be sit drives.
This is one of my favorites.
All you're going to do is sit down
on a bucket or a chair or something, get set up,
make sure your knee is in a good position.
You don't want to be too stacked over your back leg.
Get into that good position.
Sit on the edge of the bucket.
You're going to rock back and forth,
then you're going to drive out here, OK?
Make sure that you're not too far over your knee here
or too far out away from your foot, OK?
You want to be right underneath, knee over your toe,
inside of your back foot, and then driving out of here, OK?
Rocking, driving.
Let me show you that one more time.
Sit drives.
Get in here, rocking, drive it out of there.
All right?
So that's sit drives.
The third pitching velocity drills is medicine balls.
Medicine balls are great because you're
training to create explosiveness through your rotational energy.
So throwing medicine balls from the shoulder,
if you got a medicine ball, 6 to 8 pound medicine ball
and you get at the shoulder and you're throwing it as fast
as you can forward, that's a great one.
And then also from the back hip, back hip shovel throwing it
is another great one for the medicine ball drills.
That's a great pitching velocity drill.
The fourth pitching velocity drill
is going to be running guns.
That's when you're running straight towards your target
as fast as you can, get in the crow hop, and get in the good
throw, OK?
The reason why that's important for pitching velocity
is because we're working on speeding up our delivery.
OK?
Running guns are great because we
can work on the speed of our hips, the speed of our arm,
everything increases as we're running forward
and really get a good crow hop to make that throw.
So running guns are very important.
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