velocity

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Originally posted by baseballislife1228:

Do i just not have the armspeed?

How can i improve this?

I suspect that you are focusing too much on throwing with your arm and not enough on throwing with your entire body.

The key to velocity lies in the torso, not the arm. You need to make sure that you...

1. Keep your hips closed as you stride (toe pointed at 3B for RHP).

2. Make sure that your hips rotate well before your shoulders. This enables the large muscles of the hips to powerfully pull the shoulders around.

This picture of Casey Fossum is an extreme example of this...



He is hardly pumped up yet can throw like crazy.

Some people have told me that i straighten my arm too far out before delivery ( when i am in the position that fossum is pictured above)

Could this be a reason why i dont have much velocity?

Great pic...posted that on my blog Wednesday.

I know this sounds stupid, but a way I've steadily increased my velocity is throwing bullpens on the side and thrown from a longer distance. I throw as hard as I can from 65ft. I only throw fastballs. This mentally makes 60ft seem closer and I think it forces you to use more of your torso and legs. Maybe this just works for me, but if I just try to throw hard I increase my MPH by 3MPH somewhat easily. The problem is, do you want to sacrifice location for speed? My pitching coach told me, "unless you are throwing 87+ at the HS level, I would worry about location more than speed because any HS team can hit a fastball right over the middle."

if you see roger clemens workout he works on one thing only, legs...so what this tells us is that he pitches with his legs...you might be pitching with too much arm which results in 2 things, less velocity and greater pain in the long run