As you move up the base ladder, the probability a hitter drives your best pitches increase and the chance the hitter misses your mistakes decrease, but your current stats can always attract recruiters.

When your pitching plan gets your throwing arm to react your movements, you decrease the probability…

Routines mimic falling dominoes.  You begin with your first domino (an athletic position), you add a little energy (an action takes you out of your position) and all the dominoes fall (your body reacts).

With a well thought out practice routine, you walk away from each practice session knowing…

Your pitching motion blueprint. Once you set your feet, your in-built urge to stay in balance reads your foot placements to determine (1) your body position at the top of your front leg lift, then your spontaneous urge to stay in balance uses (2) your body position…

To have an advantage over the hitter, you use your lower body to place each pitch into your Catcher’s target.

• No matter the grip or release, every pitch shows a fastball throwing arm speed, comes out of the same release window and goes into the Catcher’s target with extremely late ball…

Expectations vs. Actual Accomplishments

You expect your Coach to teach you “greatness”, to get you to pass the eye test and to produce higher level performances than your present level demands.

Every Coach sees the potential for and talks to your future “greatness”, but there’s a huge…

The Science behind your motion

Your Base of Support. When standing on two feet, your base of support is the area between your two feet. However, with one foot on the ground, your base of support transfers from your feet to…

Science has a greater impact on your pitching than you realize. 

The Science

Your Inner Ear

Your inner ear triggers your “fight or flight” response that, the instant any movement works against the earth’s gravitational forces,…

  I have followed sports my whole life. I have been fortunate to witness in person or on television some of the most historical games played in the last fifty years. I have always thought it almost amazing when a hit, basketball shot, or long pass in football occurs that the officials or umpires are able to watch the game away from where the ball, hit or action is occurring. In youth sports…

Science has a greater impact on your pitching than you realize.

The Science

Your Inner Ear

Your inner ear monitors your head alignment and, when not level, tells your body to use your arms to get your head back to…

  The short story I’m about to tell really has nothing to do with interference but it has something to do with not knowing the rules. A number of years ago my team was in the playoffs. We were involved in a real close one run game. Very late in the game, we had a runner on third and one out. My batter attempted to bunt on the first two pitches and missed so he was down 0-2. I decided to take…

Science has a greater impact on your pitching than you realize.

 The physical nature of “balance”.

A cylinder resting on one end is in “balance”, but push the top of the cylinder past its base and gravity tips the cylinder over.  

 Gravity

Your inner ear…

A focus on your pitching sequence improves your results more than tinkering with your movements.

Every movement you make as you move down your pitching chain has an impact on your next movement.

When you allow your movements to complement one another, you…

You Have a “Go to” Position You May Not “Go To”?

You currently talk about “balance”, but,…

Separate yourself as an elite Pitcher.

Your shoulders and hips are instinctively driven to be vertically…

Consider the 4 ways your subconscious works.

1. To your subconscious, the only real thing is your present position.  

The good news is that you have complete and total control over your current body position.

2. Your subconscious only acts in the…

All too often your pitching is defined by your velocity and not where your pitch ends up.

Sadly, People make instant conclusions about you as a Pitcher based upon your velocity. Even worse, Pitchers with lesser velocity and pinpoint command come to feel inferior to Pitchers who throw harder, but don’t know where their next pitch is going to end up?

You’re led to believe velocity is the end-all-be-all, but, once a hard throwing pitcher moves to the next level, they’re…

*This article was originally published in September of 2015 on http://brucasarte.blogspot.com. ; Reposted here because the bulk of the article is still relevant today.



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