Pitching Drills, Baseball Practice and Mechanics | Pitchers Drills » Checkpoints http://www.pitchersdrills.com Pitching Drills, Baseball Practice and Mechanics Thu, 13 Jan 2011 04:12:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Keeping Your Weight Back http://www.pitchersdrills.com/checkpoints/keeping-your-weight-back/ http://www.pitchersdrills.com/checkpoints/keeping-your-weight-back/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:02:49 +0000 Calven http://pitchersdrills.com/?p=52 The number one culprit of lost velocity and control in young pitchers is “rushing” . This occurs when the pitcher moves to quickly toward home plate, before his arm is ready to throw. I believe the single biggest factor for increasing the velocity and command of a young pitcher is having them learn to keep their weight back. Nearly all of the pitchers weight should be set on the backside leg until the “weight transfer” occurs. Looking at the picture below you can see what having weight back means.

The same holds true for other sports like boxing. Boxers are masters of keeping their weight back and then exploding into a punch. Instead of leaking forward and losing all of the weight associated with your hips, stay back and explode at weight transfer position. Remember that you aren’t throwing the baseball until your lead leg has landed.

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Verbal Series of Checkpoints

  1. Take the sign
  2. Step Back
  3. Pivot
  4. Leg up (balance point)
  5. Break (weight back)
  6. Turn
  7. Finish
  8. Follow Through

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Take the sign

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Step Back

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Pivot

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Leg Up (balance point)

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Break (hand break & weight back)

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Turn (rotate weight and torso)

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Finish

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