Name: Top 10 Pitching Drills To Develop The Perfect Pitching Mechanics [Top 10 Thursday Ep.1]
Uploaded: 2018-11-01T05:45:47.000Z
Duration: 11 min 46 s
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Hey guys, I'm Coach Madden, official trainer
of YouGoProBaseball.com and today we've got

the Top 10 Pitching Drills to develop the
perfect pitching mechanics.

The first pitching drill we're going to do
is the wall drill.

I'm sure you guys have all seen this one before
but it's a great one because it works on the

beginning of the pitching delivery and if
you get this right, alot of things later in

your pitching delivery are going to happen
correctly.

So working on the beginning of the pitching
delivery is very very important and that's

All you're going to do is get up against a
wall, or a fence, or something that you can

You're going to get set up nice and close,
just like you're going into the stretch.

Like you're pitching straight perpendicular
from the way you're set up and you're going

The only thing you want touching the wall
or the fence is going to be the side of your

You don't want your front knee to touch, you
don't want your front foot to touch, you don't

One other thing to focus on is to have your
head on the target.

So I've got a little dot right here, I'm going
to focus on that dot as I'm going through

So it looks a little something like this.

So the only thing touching right now is the
side of my butt, not my knee, not my foot,

not my shoulder and I can still see my dot.

One more time, it looks a little something
like this.

Now, one other thing you want to pay attention
to is your back leg.

When I see a lot of guys do this drill, what
I'll see is they stay really tall on their

We really want to sit into that back leg as
we're doing this drill.

The next pitching drill is the Rocker Drill.

I'm sure you guys have all seen this one.

You're going to get set up nice and wide like
you've already taken your stride.

One way is to rock and turn the back foot
with the laces going down and then also to

let this back foot come up and over like as
if you were pitching.

So it's going to look a little something like
this.

Get nice and wide, sit into it, heal to heal,
set the arms where you feel comfortable, rocking

forward and back, hence the reason we call
it the rocker drill, and then when you separate

when you're coming back you want to separate
these arms closed off.

I'm throwing straight this way, but I'm separating
closed off.

45 degrees or more closed off when I separate
my hands.

Then I'm going to go ahead and throw this
ball.

I'll show you one of each ways to do this
drill.

First one, laces going down to the ground.

Second one, back foot coming up and over.

Rocking, separating closed off, laces to the
ground.

Now the second one, I'm going to let the back
foot come up and over just like I'm pitching.

Rocking, separating closed off, let that back
foot come up and over.

The next pitching drill is going to be Figure
Eights.

All we're doing in Figure Eights is we're
going to get an athletic stance, keep our

glove right in front of us, and then we're
going to turn like we're doing a figure eight.

Really get your hips involved in this one
and then when you separate, I really want

you to separate really over exaggerated closed
off.

So it looks like this and then we're going
to throw.

One thing I really want you guys to focus
on is pronating out in front when you do this

drill because a lot of guys have a tendency
to do this drill and get around this ball.

Really let their arm get out and around and
cut the ball off this way.

So after you do that figure eight, I want
you to think about coming back forward and

bringing the chest to the glove and pronating
the arm out in front.

The next pitching drill is called Pivot Picks.

What we're doing in Pivot Picks is working
on our pronation.

Pronation is when our arm turns this way as
we throw the ball.

A lot of pitchers get around the ball and
they put a lot of stress of that elbow.

So if you're one of those guys, this drill,
as well as that figure eight (the last drill)

are great drills for you to work on your arm
action.

So for Pivot Picks we're setting up facing
away from our target.

I'm actually going to be throwing this way.

All I'm doing is coming up with this ball
to my head like I'm making a muscle, then

I'm rotating as far as I can, and then I'm
going to go and throw that ball and really

think about pronating and turning down and
finishing this way.

Arm coming up as a muscle, coming real high
and then get the turn.

The next pitching drill is called Sit Up Throws.

Now this is a great pitching drill to work
on that finish, that end, that last linear

motion of the pitching delivery where you've
really got to bring that chest to that glove

What we're going to do on this drill is actually
lay down on the ground.

You can have your knees bent a little bit
and you're going to go like you're doing a

sit up and as you come up stay closed off,
make that throw, and really bring that chest

This pitching drill is called the Reverse
Wall Drill.

In the beginning we did the Wall Drill going
into the wall.

This drill we're going to be going away from
the wall.

All we're going to do is get set up with our
back shoulder close to the wall, or fence,

We're going to get set up here and all we
want to work on is not touching this pad with

So if we're separating too early, separating
our hands too early, we're going to hit this

Also, if we're separating too straight back,
we're going to hit this pad or this wall.