Name: 7 pitching velocity killers - Fix these and throw GAS!
Uploaded: 2017-05-16T13:13:11.000Z
Duration: 7 min 48 s
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In this video, we're going to talk about the seven pitching

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In this video, however, we're going to talk about seven

These are the things that will kill your pitching

So if you're struggling with your pitching velocity,

check to see if you're doing any of these things.

Because this could be a reason why it's shutting down

If you're throwing a lot slower than you think you should be,

check these seven things out, because you may be doing

First thing, is going to be leading with the front foot.

If you're a guy who the front foot is leading your body down

You want to lead with the side of your butt.

This tells me that you are staying closed

and you're keeping all that energy bound up.

But if your front foot and your front knee

start to break the plane of your front hip,

And you're going to lose a lot of pitching velocity that way.

is separating your hands directly to your target.

I know this is a big misconception, a lot of coaches

your hands going straight to home plate and straight back

If you look at the high velocity pitchers,

when they separate-- if that's home plate and that's

third base right there-- they're separating

A lot of those guys are to third base if they're righty

or to first base if they're a lefty, meaning

So if you're breaking straight to home plate, that's no good.

You're going to kill your pitching velocity.

The third thing-- third pitching velocity killer

If you're a guy who stays real tall on your back leg here,

when I come up and I don't have much bend in the back leg

and I maintain that straightness in my back leg,

And that's a big pitching velocity killer.

What you want to do instead is get into that back leg

So your back leg should have a pretty good bend in it

and then extend through it all, and drive

So that's what you want to do with your back hip.

The fourth pitching velocity killer is early hip rotation.

And this kind of goes into leading with that front foot.

If we're leading with our front foot and our knee--

they start to point their front foot forward.

So I'm leading this way and I'm opening my hips

What's happening when we do that is we're leaking that energy.

It's like letting some of that energy go out before we go.

We want to create hip to shoulder separation.

That's our goal in pitching, to pitch fast.

If we open up too early and we let those hips go,

we're going to leak some of that energy out.

And we're not going to be able to throw fast.

So we want to keep those hips closes as long

as possible, long, long, long, and then open it up.

And that's going to help us throw faster.

If you're bending through your front leg at release,

You've got to be able to pitch against that front leg.

We're creating good linear energy with that leg drive

that we talked about earlier, but then we

want to be able to brace up on that front leg.

they'll actually straighten that front leg out

as they're coming to their release point.

So they're leveraging their linear energy really well.

So if you're bending through it, that's the opposite.

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