Im 15 years old and need help with my mechanics, will u please tell me what im doing wrong and give me drills i can do to correct it.. thanks sooo much =) Here is the link
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NcdwUWVOHBU
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This is my opinion:
You look like your all over the place. Lots of movement left and right. Try to economize your movements to get as much of your body moving towards the plate rather than bits and pieces of it going left and right. Think tall to small. Tall as you begin then finish small.
1st stop rocking back when you start your wind up! No need to. It upsets balance. Use very little left and right movement prior to planting your post foot(right) on the mound.
You have to understand that balance is critical in pitching. You look completely out of balance through out your throw. You look like your leaning towards home plate.
Stand on the mound with your post foot (right) planted. Raise your left leg(glide leg) at 45 angle. Thigh should be parallel to the ground. Shin is perpendicular. Right leg should be straight up and down. Now hold that position. You should be able to hold that for at least 30 seconds. Some call this the flamingo. THIS IS YOUR PRIMARY or INITIAL BALANCE POINT. It all starts there.
Next motion: From the primary balance point your glide leg goes down. Not out. It then begins a glide towards the plate. Once the (left)glide leg foot reaches the ground you begin your secondary balance point. As your right (post) foot begins to come of the mound your back (actually your whole upper body) begins to follow. This is at the point where lots of people say "bend your back."
So:
Bend your back and follow through. That is bend your back and follow through to the plate. When your have reached the point where you are going to release the ball ie glove hand is tucked, post leg is up and following, throwing arm is at full extension, you should be able to hold this position also for 20-30 seconds. (Get a 2-3 pound weight or more and put it in your glove hand and hold this position.) Again this is your secondary balance point.
There are some other things in your motion but for now work on balance.
You look like your all over the place. Lots of movement left and right. Try to economize your movements to get as much of your body moving towards the plate rather than bits and pieces of it going left and right. Think tall to small. Tall as you begin then finish small.
1st stop rocking back when you start your wind up! No need to. It upsets balance. Use very little left and right movement prior to planting your post foot(right) on the mound.
You have to understand that balance is critical in pitching. You look completely out of balance through out your throw. You look like your leaning towards home plate.
Stand on the mound with your post foot (right) planted. Raise your left leg(glide leg) at 45 angle. Thigh should be parallel to the ground. Shin is perpendicular. Right leg should be straight up and down. Now hold that position. You should be able to hold that for at least 30 seconds. Some call this the flamingo. THIS IS YOUR PRIMARY or INITIAL BALANCE POINT. It all starts there.
Next motion: From the primary balance point your glide leg goes down. Not out. It then begins a glide towards the plate. Once the (left)glide leg foot reaches the ground you begin your secondary balance point. As your right (post) foot begins to come of the mound your back (actually your whole upper body) begins to follow. This is at the point where lots of people say "bend your back."
So:
Bend your back and follow through. That is bend your back and follow through to the plate. When your have reached the point where you are going to release the ball ie glove hand is tucked, post leg is up and following, throwing arm is at full extension, you should be able to hold this position also for 20-30 seconds. (Get a 2-3 pound weight or more and put it in your glove hand and hold this position.) Again this is your secondary balance point.
There are some other things in your motion but for now work on balance.
YouTube is one of THE WORST ways to present your pitching mechanics in order to glean a meaningful analysis.
MNSHO
MNSHO
Whether to rock back or step at an angle is a personal choice. I don't think either is "wrong".
I think you're basically OK through the kick, but then things go haywire. You stay very upright, your left leg lands stiffly, and you don't finish your motion -- you fly open, let the ball go and fall off to the first base side. All in all it has very sloppy look to it. I would bet you have almost no location command.
One drill we worked with was using your glove as a "site". Lead your glove hand to the target, then through through the glove hand. This will help you get your throwing hand whipping more out front, while keeping you on line to the target. You should still land firmly on your left foot, but there should be hip rotation and forward thrust enough that you bend at the waist and finish more with your chest over your left knee.
I think you're basically OK through the kick, but then things go haywire. You stay very upright, your left leg lands stiffly, and you don't finish your motion -- you fly open, let the ball go and fall off to the first base side. All in all it has very sloppy look to it. I would bet you have almost no location command.
One drill we worked with was using your glove as a "site". Lead your glove hand to the target, then through through the glove hand. This will help you get your throwing hand whipping more out front, while keeping you on line to the target. You should still land firmly on your left foot, but there should be hip rotation and forward thrust enough that you bend at the waist and finish more with your chest over your left knee.
I thought Midlo Dad made some good points.
You do open too soon and fall off dramatically toward the 1st base side.
Another way to think about what Midlo Dad pointed out is: Your glove needs to stabilize out in front of your body, directed toward home plate, between foot-strike and ball release. During the launch of the ball, your torso should track forward to the glove. If you stabilize the glove out in front, directed at the target, and your torso tracks forward to meet the glove, you won't fly open and you won't fall off to the left side so much.
There is a lot of misinformation available from well-menaing sources about the glove-side action during throwing motion. At lower levels, many coaches simply ignore the glove-side, because that's not where the baseball is launched from. Even at some higher levels, the "pull your glove into the body" teach is still pretty common. That's because the launch of a baseball happens at such a high speed that it is very difficult to distinguish between "bringing the body forward to the glove" and "pulling the glove back to the body". However, they have very different consequences and high speed motion analysis clearly shows that the majority of elite pitchers stabilize the glove somewhere over their stride foot and bring their chest forward to meet it immediately before ball release.
You do open too soon and fall off dramatically toward the 1st base side.
Another way to think about what Midlo Dad pointed out is: Your glove needs to stabilize out in front of your body, directed toward home plate, between foot-strike and ball release. During the launch of the ball, your torso should track forward to the glove. If you stabilize the glove out in front, directed at the target, and your torso tracks forward to meet the glove, you won't fly open and you won't fall off to the left side so much.
There is a lot of misinformation available from well-menaing sources about the glove-side action during throwing motion. At lower levels, many coaches simply ignore the glove-side, because that's not where the baseball is launched from. Even at some higher levels, the "pull your glove into the body" teach is still pretty common. That's because the launch of a baseball happens at such a high speed that it is very difficult to distinguish between "bringing the body forward to the glove" and "pulling the glove back to the body". However, they have very different consequences and high speed motion analysis clearly shows that the majority of elite pitchers stabilize the glove somewhere over their stride foot and bring their chest forward to meet it immediately before ball release.
I see too much or too early recoil. You spin out at and after release point. Your head needs to continue toward home WITH you glove
Im starting to appreciate some of the things you folks are talking about. Ive been reading books for years on pitching. Sure I can give a very good step by step, point a to b rendition but yeah I can see. I would really like to learn more. cap_N gave me some good advice. I thought I learned something about tucking the glove when following through but I was watching some video of Randy Johnson and was re-reading this particular thread.
http://www.pitchingclips.com/players/randy_johnson.htm
laflippin,
Is his motion similar to what you mention about "the majority of elite pitchers stabilize the glove somewhere over their stride foot and bring their chest forward to meet it immediately before ball release."
http://www.pitchingclips.com/players/randy_johnson.htm
laflippin,
Is his motion similar to what you mention about "the majority of elite pitchers stabilize the glove somewhere over their stride foot and bring their chest forward to meet it immediately before ball release."
quote:Originally posted by baseballplaya92104:
Im 15 years old and need help with my mechanics, will u please tell me what im doing wrong and give me drills i can do to correct it.. thanks sooo much =) Here is the link
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NcdwUWVOHBU
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StarDad we certainly are getting bold. What is it they say about a little knowledge..... well you can magnify that for 0 knowledge.
Are you sure your not from ST louis ?
Pain are you out there ?
I can't even say I haven't heard anything that ridiculous before ?
Are you sure your not from ST louis ?
Pain are you out there ?
I can't even say I haven't heard anything that ridiculous before ?
quote:Originally posted by BobbleheadDoll:
StarDad we certainly are getting bold. What is it they say about a little knowledge..... well you can magnify that for 0 knowledge.
Are you sure your not from ST louis ?
Pain are you out there ?
I can't even say I haven't heard anything that ridiculous before ?
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I can see you know as little about Cnada as you do BB.
Well we get snow late December or mid Jan and it is gone usually by March. If you go north they get snow for 6 months but you won't catch me up there. It is often 100% in the the 3 summer months and many years we don't see snow at all. Go 20 miles to Buffalo and you got snow. Its called the snow belt. We are in southern Ontario. I haven't put a jacket on yet. Get your map out and see how large Ontario is. The weather changes dramatically as you go a few hundred miles north.
Oh I don't even have skis. A waste of money with no snow.
Oh I don't even have skis. A waste of money with no snow.
GloveSide-- Bingo! You've got it.
The side view of Randy Johnson's delivery shows very, very clearly that he stabilizes his glove over the stride foot and his torso tracks forward toward the glove. Good side-view slo-mo video of most other elite pitchers will show approximately the same thing...not in every case, but in most.
I wish this were my original finding but it's not--this is something that Tom House and the NPA discovered in their motion analysis of large numbers of elite pitchers.
After figuring this out, and analyzing what can go wrong when coaches teach what they think they see (for example, "pull your glove back into your body") House and the NPA have incorporated this aspect of glove side action into their mechanics teaching.
The side view of Randy Johnson's delivery shows very, very clearly that he stabilizes his glove over the stride foot and his torso tracks forward toward the glove. Good side-view slo-mo video of most other elite pitchers will show approximately the same thing...not in every case, but in most.
I wish this were my original finding but it's not--this is something that Tom House and the NPA discovered in their motion analysis of large numbers of elite pitchers.
After figuring this out, and analyzing what can go wrong when coaches teach what they think they see (for example, "pull your glove back into your body") House and the NPA have incorporated this aspect of glove side action into their mechanics teaching.
