Why Does Your Motion Keep Breaking Down?

Because your pitching motion works in connected quadrants!!!

  • Your hips and glove arm work together.

    • Coach Skip’s instruction never ignores the glove arm.

  • Your front leg and throwing arm work together.
    • Coach Skip’s instruction never asks your front leg to land; your glove hand fires.

How Your Quadrants Work?

Your glove hand prompts your hips to fire, your front shoulder opens, and you deliver the baseball.

  • Instead of your front hip sliding over your back hip, your pelvis rotates horizontally, transferring force from the ground through your legs, hips, core, and into your throwing arm.
  • Each quadrant of the body performs its job in the proper order, so no single body part must compensate.
  • The glove hand creates direction, the hips create rotation, the front leg accepts force, and the throwing arm delivers the baseball.
  • The result is a connected kinetic chain that produces better command, easier velocity, greater consistency, and less stress on the arm.
The body throws the baseball in one movement.

Your Back Thigh Tells the Story

When your back thigh finishes above your back hip, or your throwing arm pulls your hips forward, your lower body isn’t driving the delivery.

Instead…
  • Your throwing arm finds the target.
  • Your throwing hand creates movement.
  • Your throwing arm compensates for what your lower body didn’t do.

When your back thigh drives forward, your lower body leads the throwing motion.

  • Your lower body delivers the baseball.
  • You command the pitch.
  • You create efficient velocity.
  • You produce natural ball movement.
  • Your throwing arm simply delivers what your body creates.
The difference isn’t effort. The difference is sequence.

Sequence Over Strength™ teaches your body to deliver the baseball one movement at a time. 

Out of Your Starting Position, Your Glove Hand Always Moves First

  • The glove arm moves first to activate the hips.
  • The hips create direction and momentum, which set the front leg in motion.
  • As the front leg stabilizes and accepts force, the throwing arm is free to accelerate and deliver the baseball.
The body throws the baseball one movement at a time.

 COMMON PROBLEMS

Most pitching problems occur when one part of the sequence tries to do another part’s job.

  • The throwing arm fires
  •  before the hips.
  • In the starting position, the front knee moves behind the front hip.
  • The front leg lands before the glove hand crosses the body.
  • The head collapses to the side.

When these things happen, the body stops working as a whole.

  • The throwing arm begins compensating for movements that should have been created by the lower body and glove side.
  • The result is inconsistent command, forced velocity, arm fatigue, and mechanical confusion.

The best deliveries don’t rely on the throwing arm alone.

  • The best deliveries rely on the sequence created by the starting position.
  • The front foot hits the ground, then you throw
  • When the start is right, the body can move in order.

When the body moves in order, command becomes repeatable, velocity becomes easier, and the arm experiences less stress.

Sequence Over Strength™

The clues for getting your ball to your target aren’t in your motion; they’re in your starting position.

You’ll drive yourself crazy trying to fix your motion when your starting position fixes everything that causes your ball to go into your target.

 NEED HELP?

If you or someone you know is struggling with command, velocity, or mechanics, send Coach Skip a bullpen video.

  • Text or direct message Coach Skip at 856-524-3248 and receive a response within 24 hours.