Power Position for Baseball Pitching

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Mike Lumley on behalf of Expert Village I'm here to teach you pitching. Our next phase is what we call in place so what we are going to do is now add in we are going to do exactly the same with our upper body we are just adding basically into our power position. Our power position is basically our landing okay this is where we are about to what we call launching a ball. So our lower body is going to be she outside shoulder width apart we don't want to get to far that we are kind of getting ourselves off balance and won't be able to use our hips for power. What we want to be able to do is get ourselves in a good power position a athletic position. Making sure that we can utilize our back hip for power. We are going to take our front foot and we are going to close it and we are going to get into a point that were not quiet a 45 degree angle but we are going to end up close. Very important in our end results when we pitch we don't want to get to a point where we call flying open. So we have to make sure that our foot is slightly closed and as we let go of the ball eventually our foot will straighting out and point right at our target. So foot is not in line front foot is in line with our back foot. So we have what we call going back to liner we have to make sure we have a direct path to our target. From here all we are going to do is add our hips to the equation so we would start again at our chest. We would do our separation at our belt and when we do that we are just going to do a little bit of body shift to our back leg. It is not going to be huge it is just enough to get a little bit of slight movement in our hips so we can have some momentum. So we would start here, separating up, and down. This one here we are not going to rotate our back leg we would use that in a second phase of the end place. So we would start up, separate down and up and down. As you watch the something now my chest would end up again a little bit in front of knee my front knee. So I'm getting good extension and get a little bit more of my release. We got to look at the more distance I travel the more momentum that I get and the more velocity I would have at the end. So if I cut this off back here by standing up I loose some velocity, I loose accuracy. So we come here up and work down and you would notice again my front side, my elbow, my glove tucked into my side it doesn't swing out. "