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Pitching Mechanics
#1

Positives I see:

-good ER
-good leg drive
-generally good mechanics(more going right than wrong)
-speed of delivery

negatives I see:
-‘w’ thing, which is causing a hitch
-opening early(I think)

I think my focuses need to be to continue to work on my glove action, which I think will correct both arms and prevent the ‘w’. I think that by working on this it may also help my separation and position at foot-plant.

I’m also going to try to make my arm action longer. What I mean by that is have to hands further away from my body as the swing through their ‘action.’

Let me know if you guys see anything in addition to what I mentioned above or if you see something that I didn’t mention.

I look forward to hearing more feedback, thanks!

#2

What is the latest velo?

#3

I haven’t had access to the gun since I’m on my own for throwing work, so your guess is as good as mine.

#4

Okay. it def. looks like you are making improvements.

#5

Thanks!

#6

jimster, nice work. based on what i see here, much improved lower half! still looks like you’re tucking that glove to your chest early, which could be hurting trunk rotation/velocity. but i see some big improvements, keep it up!

#7

Agree with Phil. Your GS looks a bit short. Holding the GS out a bit longer could stop the early rotation.

#8

If you could aggressively pull your glove, you may really have something.

I expanded the vid, and paused it like a million times - It definitely looks like you have isolated (then ‘corrected’) many small things that you thought you were doing ‘wrong’. Keep it up. Ex Rot. being one of them.

#9

Jimster, you have definitely improved in your arm action and upper body mechanics, and the lower body looks good as well. The only thing I see is that once your front foot hits everything goes linear. You get in a good position to rotate at foot plant, but you must rotate around the front hip joint violently! I believe this is one of the biggest keys to your improvement. Good Luck!

#10

Thanks for all the positive feedback!

I agree with all the comments I have been reading. I think my biggest focus should be my glove action work.

Once I get that ironed out, my ‘inverted w,’ which I believe is causing a tiny hitch will go away. I can do it when i isolate my arm action, but when I do it full speed it comes back.

I believe everything I need to improve on is kind of hinged on working on my glove side arm action. I think that if I improve that it will help me stayed closed a little longer and make my arm action continuous.

With all that being said, I’m really happy with how my mech’s appeared at full go, I believe that if the season started tomorrow I could be throwing pretty successfully.

Once I get the glove action ironed out I will focus on more full speed throwing from the stretch and windup.

Over break I’m going to start doing mound work since I will have a mound available to me on a consistent basis

#11

Does anyone have any drills that can isolate the glove arm action?

So far all I have been doing is going slow with it and adding more intensity, while video taping along the way.

Also, does anyone have any guess on velocity based on my mech’s? I know it’s hard to say, but I was just curious to what you all think.

I would say faster than I was clocked during the fall season, which was max 80mph. I was also clocked at 82 mph during high schools tryouts in the early spring.

Both of those speeds were with mechanics similar to my ‘end of travel season’ mechanics.

If I had to guess my speed I would say it would be in the 82-84 mph range. I will like these mechanics are better than my spring/summer mechanics and would produce more velocity. Especially since I have a better leg drive and external rotation.

Also, I can use the ‘release point, end point’ time to guesstimate it because I wasn’t throwing full distance.

Thanks for the feedback, if anyone sees anything else and would like to comment on it, please do. I love reading your guy’s comments good or bad!

#12

Looking better jimster, hopefully it all translates on the mound during games