In softball pitcher training coaches use the old fashioned clock face as a means of communicating and reviewing pitching mechanics. Hopefully young pitchers will continue to learn to read a clock! The first reference point is with the hands out front at 3 o clock After 3 the arm moves up to 12 o’clock. Sometimes […]
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Preseason is here for HS players inthe North. Here are five things to focus your preseason pitching workouts. LOCATION work is key in preseason. Sharpen your focus and measure and track your pitches to location for each of your game ready pitches. By the end of preseason you should have NUMBER on x/10 to location
Training your body to learn new things is a slow process Everyone has heard the term muscle memory. It takes 3-5000 good reps to truly learn a new motion in a way you can repeat it without serious concentration. training speed You need to train at different speeds from slow to fast. Slow motion first
The Dreaded Triangle If you do your geometry and imagine you are the pitcher standing at the right of the triangle 43 feet away. And you misalign your release by 1 degree. How much does the ball miss the center of the plate? Well for those who passed 10th grade geometry, its tangent( 1degree) times
How do you throw fast? Everyone wants to know! Think about driving along in a car at 10 mph and you are riding along ( without your seat belt ) and the driver slams on the brakes – you slam forward into the dashboard but you are ok. Now do that at 30, you
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I hope this blog will be a pitching resource for parents and pitchers. There is a lot out on the internet, some good, some bad, and most I find incomplete. A magic drill, a 4 week course that gains 4-6MPH, recently 30 second reels. And I can’t imagine TikTok. I encourage you to ask a
