Yo, what's up You Go Pro ers?
I got baseball pitching tips for you today in fact I got three great baseball pitching
tips for you and I'm going to talk about three big ideas okay.
I'm not going to just ramble off a bunch of tips.
These are three big ideas if you focus on these three things in pitching you can see
huge improvements.
The first of baseball pitching tip is going to be leading with your butt, I'm sure you've
all heard this.
I talk about the wall drill all the time but when you're pitching you don't want to come
to a balance point and then start everything going forward you want to keep your momentum
going and you want to break your hips and lead with your butt as you go, this gives
you a good angle.
A good force to drive with off your back leg.
So it's going to look a little something like this.
When I come up I'm coming up, I'm separating and I'm going down you can see that I'm leading
with my butt, my but is the furthest thing out that way okay.
That is one of the most important things because the beginning of the pitching delivery is
the most important.
If you do that correctly a lot of stuff later down the mound will fall into place.
If you mess this up a lot of things further in your delivery are going to be messed up.
So this is very important again the wall drill is important to work on this.
I got the wall drill and a bunch of other videos so check those out.
The second baseball pitching tip; the big idea that I got for you today is going to
be that you want to separate your hands at a 45° angle closed or more.
A lot of guys open too linear towards their targets so if I'm breaking my hands I'm breaking
too much in a line towards the target so if this is straight towards home; guys are breaking
too far straight with their gloves there either breaking this way or breaking this way pointing
their glove at the target which a lot of guys have been taught since they were younger which
is actually the wrong way to separate your hands.
So again this is a great baseball pitching tip; a big idea is to separate your hands
45° or more some guys goes straight, like righty's go straight to third as they're pitching
the home but I say 45° which is about here if I'm going home is a good spot to be.
So breaking the hands here you will see a lot of guys have this glove down and closed
as they get there so instead of going straight to the target I'm going 4 to 5° so my line
will look like this and you can even draw a line when you're working on this and just
separate your hands on that line.
Now when guys start first working on this they have trouble with keeping their strides
straight so when you're working on guys with this make sure their stride is still staying
straight as their breaking with 45° or more separation with their hands.
This is going to creates a lot of torque in the pitching delivery and that's what you
need, you need that hip to shoulder separation or you need to get yourself set up to have
good hip to shoulder separation and this is how you do it that's why it's a great baseball
pitching tip; it's a big idea.
The third baseball pitching tip, another big idea is going to be to learn the real release
point.
A release point is not way out here and for some guys who leave it back too far it's not
here either it's somewhere in between.
In fact you want to create a force vector which is a line your whole body follows to
your release point, meaning your front arm; your throwing arm should be in line with your
back the same angle as your back, same angle as your butt, your knee is going to bent a
little bit but it should also go straight through your heel.
So that will be the best release point right there.
Also at release point some of the best pitchers are fully straight with their front leg if
you're not fully straight you want to be almost there but very strong that's why it's important
to have strong legs when you're pitching.
What you don't want to do is land and then collapse through as your pitching because
you're losing a lot of energy that front leg is like you're leverage point if you can pitch
against that front leg the energy goes hey we can't go out here and it continues up your
body and tries to go out through your arms.
So those are the three baseball pitching tips and I hope you guys like.
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