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• Better Command? It Starts With Your Back Knee

Want to throw strikes consistently? It's simpler than you think: your back knee. Your back knee behind your back foot keeps your weight back, makes your throwing motion natural, and channels your lower body's energy straight to the target. Check Your Back Knee! Tired of wild pitches and missed targets? You're not alone. Many pitchers struggle with command, and a common culprit is their ba...2025
• Front Knee Position: Setting the Stage for Success

The position of your front knee at the start of your delivery is crucial for balance, power, and accuracy. Front Knee Behind the Front Hip: The Reactive Approach Starting with your front knee behind your front hip often leads to a reactive delivery. Your body is constantly trying to catch up to your weight. Because you're reacting, your delivery becomes less consistent, you're likely to have v...2025
• A Simple Way to Improve Command

Front Foot Wider Than Your Shoulders Your front foot wider than your shoulders leads to the front knee naturally drifting behind the front hip during the leg lift. Your feet wider than your shoulders create an unstable and unbalanced position, reducing control over the pitch. You will likely "fly open" or have difficulty repeating a consistent release point. Feet One Baseball Width Apa...2025
• The Misconception Of Arm Dominance In Command

Complicated Command Many pitchers overthink their arm action, believing it solely dictates where the ball goes. This over-reliance on the arm leads to inconsistent release points and poor command. The throwing arm plays a role, but it's more of a facilitator than the primary driver of location. The Importance Of A Strong Foundation Starting with the weight over the back foot allows fo...2025
• Wide Feet Cause Issues

The Problem When you stand with your feet too far apart, it leads to several problems. Your instinct places your front knee behind the front hip. Your glove hand is used for balance and nothing else. Due to a less stable base and inconsistent release point, your accuracy suffers. The Solution The solution involves bringing the feet closer together. Your instincts align your front knee...2025
• Front Shoulders Prompt Your Stride

The front shoulder initiates the forward movement of your lower body (stride). Pulls Your Body Towards The Plate When the shoulders drive the movement, it creates a more consistent, repeatable throwing motion which leads to better command and control of your pitches. By engaging the core and upper body first, you generate more power and velocity on your pitches. A shoulder-dominant motio...2025

• Front Shoulders Prompt Your Stride
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• Mastering Balance and Pitching Mechanics

Explore the importance of maintaining a balanced stance with your heels close together for effective pitching and the role of the glove hand in guiding the ball toward the target. A balanced stance is fundamental for effective pitching. Keeping your heels close together to maintain a stable base and ensure your weight is evenly distributed between both feet keeps your body balanced. By keeping...2024
• Organized Motions - Shoulder Alignment

The Importance of Proper Shoulder Alignment. Aligned shoulders provide a direct path to the target, enhancing accuracy and command. Proper shoulder rotation allows for the energy from your hips to go through your core and your throwing arm. The increased torque from your body contributes to optimal velocity. Misaligned shoulders lead to overuse injuries such as shoulder impingement, rota...2024

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• Better Command? It Starts With Your Back Knee
2025
• Front Knee Position: Setting the Stage for Success
2025
• A Simple Way to Improve Command
2025
• The Misconception Of Arm Dominance In Command
2025
• Wide Feet Cause Issues
2025
• Front Shoulders Prompt Your Stride
2025
• Consistently Hit Your Bullseye

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" y...2024

• Front Knee Position: Setting the Stage for Success
2025
• The Misconception Of Arm Dominance In Command
2025
• Mastering the Balanced Pitch: A Step-by-Step Guide

Achieving consistent accuracy in pitching requires a well-balanced and coordinated motion. The importance of maintaining a balanced stance with your weight over your back foot throughout the pitching motion produces an accurate delivery. Starting Position To maintain your weight primarily over your back foot, ensure your back foot is slightly to the second base side of your back foot, your fr...2024
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• Foot Positioning Promotes Location

The front foot is critical in achieving consistent location in your throws. Improper Timing Starting with your front foot too far forward ahead of your hip means, to compensate with an exaggerated stride to shift your weight forward, you disrupt the throwing rhythm and make it challenging to locate the pitch. Better Direction A balanced stance, having your front foot even with your back ...2024
• Level Hips Promote Good Results

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 ...2024
• Narrow Footwork Builds Command

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 ...2024
• Your Shoulders Promote Location!

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 t...2024
• Your Glove Hand Needs Involvement!

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 you...2024
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• Your Throwing Arm Finds Your Target!

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 st...2024
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• FREE Instruction When We Can’t Add Command to Your Velocity!

What is velocity? Velocity is the speed at which your ball gets to your target without giving the batter little time to think about the pitch. Most Pitchers don’t realize is most of the time the hitter swings at pitches outside the strike zone. Where does Velocity come from? Any weight shift from any part of your Body prompts your velocity to come from your Throwing Arm working alone. ...2023
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• Mastering the Balanced Pitch: A Step-by-Step Guide
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• Organized Motions – Proper Foot Strikes

Not “Foot Strike, Then Throw” … In your Starting Position, your Front Hip finishes behind back leg, your Body fights gravity, and you lose control of the ball. Your weight shifts forward causing your throwing action. You hit your foot strike, and your weight initiating your throwing action sends the ball to a larger target area. … But “Foot Strike, And Throw” In your Starting Position, your ...2024
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• Better Command? It Starts With Your Back Knee
2025
• Front Knee Position: Setting the Stage for Success
2025
• A Simple Way to Improve Command
2025
• The Misconception Of Arm Dominance In Command
2025
• Wide Feet Cause Issues
2025
• Front Shoulders Prompt Your Stride
2025
• Mastering Balance and Pitching Mechanics
2024
• Mastering the Balanced Pitch: A Step-by-Step Guide
2024

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• Organized Motions – Balance

Finding your target with uncanny regularity comes from being “in balance” or starting your motion with your Front Knee in front of your Front Hip. Your Body is Always Getting “In Balance” The instant you’re “out of balance” becomes the instant your Body makes adjustments. What should happen. 1. Your Glove Arm triggers your Lower Body. 2. Your Throwing Action ...2024
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• Organized Motions – Proper Foot Strikes
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• Level Hips Promote Good Results
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• Your Glove Hand and Location

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 ...2024
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• The Desired “Pitching Process” You’re Searching For

Finding your target with uncanny regularity comes from being “in balance” or starting your motion with your Front Knee in front of your Front Hip. Your Front Knee getting behind your Front Hip is an “out of balance” position, not an “in balance” motion. Your Body is Always Getting “In Balance” Your Body always does several natural things to get back to “in balance”. The instant you’...2023
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• Hips, Glove Work, and Command

Cause for Uneven HipsUneven Hips arise from your Front and Back Heels starting too far apart.When your Front Heel is more than one baseball width from your Back Heel, your Hips end up uneven.With your Heels too far apart, when you lift your Front Leg, your Front Leg naturally goes behind your Front Hip and tilts your Hips.Uneven HipsYou can only throw the ball when your Hips are level.Your H...2023