do any of catchers out there know how to increase your pop to pop time for a 16 year old baseball player mabye by .2-.5 seconds any thing will be good
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There are several things you can work on to improve your pop time. Long toss to improve arm strength. A good weight and conditioning program as well and stretching - core work. Find a good catching instructor that can help you improve your foot work and transfer mechanics. It takes time and hard work to improve. Good luck.
Most people want to decrease their pop time, not increase it!
Arm strength and throw velocity is important, but the quickest way to decrease pop time is by shaving time off the release.
It takes a long time to develop more arm strength, but changing certain aspects of release mechanics can be done quite quickly.
Have your throw down videotaped, and play it back in frame by frame to get an accurate measure of your release time. If it is over about .66 seconds (20 frames on the video) then you should be able to decrease it by sharpening up your mechanics - footwork, load, etc.
Go to www.catchingcamp.com and read the stuff there on proper release mechanics.
Arm strength and throw velocity is important, but the quickest way to decrease pop time is by shaving time off the release.
It takes a long time to develop more arm strength, but changing certain aspects of release mechanics can be done quite quickly.
Have your throw down videotaped, and play it back in frame by frame to get an accurate measure of your release time. If it is over about .66 seconds (20 frames on the video) then you should be able to decrease it by sharpening up your mechanics - footwork, load, etc.
Go to www.catchingcamp.com and read the stuff there on proper release mechanics.
Something that is always overlooked is quick feet. Make sure you're always practicing your footwork and jumping rope.
Like my man LP said, quick feet if you feet are set quick enough and properly throws arent going to be up to par....and quicker hands. those are the things that can be changed with the quickest result, work out arm strength but that takes time to notice a difference.
