Elbow Up Drill for Baseball Pitching

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Mike Lumley and here on behalf of Expert Village, I am here to teach you pitching. Right now we are going to start and when we want to throw the ball, we want to lead out with our elbow and release out in front. So with this drill, we are going to stand up nice and tall or sit up tall on our knees, elbows up as high as our shoulder and out in front of our shoulders. All we are trying to do with this drill is work on our release and put a little bit of zip on the ball. So here we are trying to remember standing only about 5 yards and with the younger kids, we can go a little bit closer. We don't want to get in to the point that kids are moving their upper body to throw. So I want to make sure that the shoulders stay square and we are just using our wrist and our arms. "