The Cause: Uneven hips happen when your front heel is placed more than a baseball width away from your back heel. Your positioning causes your front leg to naturally swing behind your front hip as you lift it and your position tilts your hips. The Effect: You can only throw effectively with level hips. To achieve the level position needed for an accurate throw, uneven hips force your body to make balance adjustments. These adjustments disrupt the natural throwing motion, affect accuracy, and hurt consistency. The Solution: Placing your front and back heels within a baseball width of ea ..read more

Just like a balanced archer consistently hits the target, proper throwing mechanics allow you to deliver the ball with accuracy and control.Stance & Nocking the Arrow During your front leg lift, keeping your front knee in front of your front hip is like nocking the arrow onto the bowstring.  Your stable stance allows for proper "glove work". Drawing & Releasing Your glove work "fires" your lower body, which then drives your throwing arm. This sequence is similar to drawing the bowstring (using your back muscles) and then releasing it to launch the arrow. Precise Aim Like a skill ..read more

  The Role of Level Shoulders Maintaining level shoulders at the peak of your front leg lift allows your throwing hand to follow the path guided by your glove hand and ensures smoother and more controlled movement of the throwing hand. When your throwing hand follows a well-defined path due to level shoulders, you gain greater "command" over the throw which translates to better control and placement of the ball. Impact of Uneven Shoulders If your shoulders are not level at your front leg lift, your body compensates for the tilt and often manifests as adjustments in your throwing arm. The ..read more

  Footwork plays a crucial role in setting the stage for good glove work and exceptional command. Wide Footwork and Balance Issues When your foot distance is too wide, most of your weight stays on your back foot. Your throwing arm "pulls" you forward to maintain balance and takes away focus from controlling the throw. With your arm busy with balance, your glove work becomes reactive rather than proactive, follows the path of your throwing arm, and loses its ability to guide the throw precisely. Narrow Footwork and Glove Control By narrowing your foot distance, you establish a proper cen ..read more

  Don’t Do This When your Foot Positioning is off, your Body moves out of balance, your Glove Work is reactionary, and your command suffers. Your Foot Position Your motion depends on your Foot Positioning. The correct Foot Positioning promotes great Glove Work and exceptional command. With your Heels in line with your target and one baseball width apart keep your motion in balance, your good Front and Back Heels promote your Glove Hands and give you good posture. Your Glove Work Your Glove Hands maintain your balance, and your balance produces your location. Your Glove Hand moves out and ..read more

  Rubber Bands The concept of using your lower body to generate power in your throw is similar to the rubber band and propeller in the toy airplane. Just like the rubber band stores potential energy that's released to spin the propeller, your legs, and core can be "wound up" during the pitching motion to create potential energy through hip rotation and core engagement. In Pitching The energy release is a smooth transfer of power that travels from the legs through the core and into the throwing arm. Your hips forcefully rotate creating a significant amount of torque before your upper body ..read more

  Bad Mechanics When the weight is over your back leg, the hips and shoulders move together. Your hips and shoulder move as a rigid connection. Standing on one leg, isolating hip movement, and throwing the ball don’t translate directly to your pitching motion. During the throwing motion, the weight transfer from the back leg to the front leg allows for a powerful rotation with one foot planted. Good Mechanics In a good pitching motion, your weight is centered just in front of your back foot making a sequential transfer of energy: Your legs and core initiate the movement of creating power ..read more

  Poor Glove Hand Palm Movement When you begin your motion with your Front Knee to the Second Base side of your Front Hip, your weight is entirely over your Back Foot. Your Glove Hand Palm merely reacts to your Starting Position, your Body moves out of balance, and your command suffers. Your Body recognizes this position and naturally reacts with your Throwing Arm taking over your motion. Your Throwing Arm works by itself to bring the ball to a point between where you want the ball to go and one your Body wants. Good Glove Hand Palm Movement When you begin your motion with your Front Kn ..read more

  Preliminaries Your starting position impacts your glove hand movement, and your glove hand impacts your pitch location. No Glove Hand Movement  When you begin your delivery with your front hip behind your back hip, your glove hand reacts to your movements and takes on a path of its own. From your initial movement to your throwing action, your glove hand balances your motion. Your glove hand ends up under your armpit, and, without your lower body, your delivery ends with your throwing arm firing the ball into your target area. Your glove hand counts on the hitter swinging at pitch ..read more

  Titled Shoulders In your Starting Position, your Feet being too far apart prompts your Shoulders to tilt, your motion to be out of balance, and your location to suffer. Your automatic balance mechanism has your Shoulders mirror your Hips, your Hips tilt your Shoulders, and, to deliver the ball, your body needs to get back in balance. Your adjustment of your body makes your Shoulders level but puts the ball into a larger than expected target area. The ball goes somewhere between your release point and the spot where you want your ball to go. You run the risk of rarely getting the ball t ..read more