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Its kind of hard to tell on just that one pitch. Maybe if you could get some more footage of more pitches. I don't know if he does the towel drill at all. That can help him out with extension. I see you are in tempe. You should check out the Junior Olympics next week. The 18-26 at Peoria and Surprise. I am taking my team and there is going to be a lot of good baseball. 72 teams.

I'll be spending most of the week out there at the JO.
What team are you coaching?

I am coaching the Saddleback Valley Devils CA. We have taken 4th, 5th, 9th, in the last four years. Last year was a off year but this year we are looking to get back to the top 10. There are a lot of other good teams going out there from orange county.

He is doing just what my 15 year old is doing. Not getting over his front leg on release. Was this a fastball or curve? Pause the vid at release and take a look. He is losing about (my guess) 2 to 3 mph because of the high release. Have him turn that back knee in a little more, toward the plate as he starts his throw that might help him get over his front leg and the ball will come down in the zone more and probably a little more zip. Overall not bad mechanics just needs to tweak em a little.

JMO, but he could probably use a bit longer stride. May have something to do with what looks like a pretty poor mound. I'm not nuts about the glove hand positioning but that is more of a style thing than an absolute. Perhaps if you had him trying to bring his chest to his glove, rather than dropping the glove down and letting it get behind him he'd get out over the knee better.

Looks pretty good.

I would agree with dwill that he isn't getting over the front leg as desired,but what does this mean more exactly and what is cause and effect and how might you address it ?

One model that works to organize video analysis is the Nyma-n "buggy whip".

The final unloading to throw is like unflexing (bowing) the handle of the whip to whip the arm "loop".
The handle of the whip is like the spine which must get arched well before the spine can unload/bow("extension" in anatomical terms).

Key point:It is the bowing or unflexing of the well arched/flexed spine which allows the body to get over the front leg.

Problem-if the head goes forward early,you lose the arch/flex,then there can not be enough bow of the handle to get over the front leg.The problem needs to be fixed by a better arching.

But how does the spine get arched,even if you keep the head back longer ? The key is to continue coiling the body as the head stays back so you can feel the arch/coil go all the way up the back and start to turn the shoulders before you let the head go forward much.

To keep coiling while the head is back requires especially good lead/glove arm action.Coiling is thus continued (avoiding front side flying open early) by asymmetric arm action where the lead arm continues to internally rotate (show the palm/grab the money from the catcher/keep the front elbow up/do the swim move-lots of different cues are use to get at this.

I find that you can work on the head and the hips and the weight and the feet and lots of other areas,but if you don't get the lead arm action right,you lose coil and you then lose arch as well as the ability for the stride foot blocking to further accentuate the arch before the final "bow".

As far as timing,Hodge recommends:

"Bring the throwing hand up as the front leg turns over".This synchronizes the upper and lower body well at this point.Then you want to make sure at the same time that you have good glove arm action to maximize coiling as you keep the head back until the shoulders start to turn.

The idea of bringing the chest to the glove, rather than the glove to the chest is to keep the lead arm from pulling back too soon. So I guess I agree with Tom although his terminology gets a bit technical for me at times.

Thanks all.
We'll make some adjustments and post some follow up vid.