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

  Your Shoulders stay in synch with your Hips. When your Hips are online, your Shoulders are also on the target line. Poor Posture Your Foot being too far apart causes your Front Knee to behind your Front Hip. When you begin your delivery with your Front Knee behind your Front Hip, your Shoulders fall out of line with the target. To get your Shoulders back in line, your Front Leg points toward your target and your Shoulders fall back in line. When landing your Stride, your Shoulders are rarely in the same position, your Throwing Arm releases the ball from your Shoulder position, and you ..read more

  When your body is in balance Your Glove Hand naturally gets involved.Glove Hand Under Arm Pit Your Front Knee going behind your Front Hip means your Front Leg Lift naturally balances your weight over your Back Leg. To move from this position, a forward weight shift brings you into your Throwing Action but also causes you to lose your Lower Body. Your Lower Body is not involved means your Glove Hand is used for balance and merely tucks under your Front Arm pit. Your Throwing Hand works alone and has fewer pitches to travel to your target. Glove Hand Action Your Front Knee staying in fr ..read more

  Your good or bad balance confirms a good or bad throwing Action.Bad - “Stride THEN Throw” Your Front Knee going behind your Front Hip makes your Body out of balance, and your Front Leg ready to stride. During your stride, your stride brings your Back Knee forward. As you stride, your Back Knee brings your weight ahead of your Back Foot. Your weight ahead of your Back Foot means your stride Foot lands, your Throwing Arm delivers the ball, and your Glove Arm merely tucks under your armpit. You “Stride THEN Throw’ and your ball goes into your target by chance. Good – “Stride AND Throw” H ..read more