Back Side Follow Through in Baseball Pitching

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Mike Lumley and on behalf of Expert Village I'm here to teach you pitching. So staying on the in place now we are going to work on our back side, back side follow through. So basically your back side is a reaction to an action. So if you follow through properly then your back foot would come out and out the way it is suppose to. The biggest thing I see a lot of kids do is just swing their leg and that is just going to create your upper body to stay up too tall and not getting the ball down. So on top of this we want to make sure our back foot is not dragging through the ground. The more we drag our back side and our foot again the less velocity we have. So what we want to do especially in this drill is really learn to pick it out of the ground. So as we go I'm going to pick it up and put it down. (pitching ball and picking up his back leg) Okay you notice again that my chest stays up in front of my knees a little bit more now, I get good extension on my release and I stay down cause it is very important that we work on this because now when we decelerate which is more injuries occur, this is your choke absorber. This is your legs, your back, your extension, up on deceleration's and really helps on preventing injuries. Not everybody is going to get away with injuries and because you do this it doesn't mean that you are never going to have an injury but it really helps on preventing it or at least giving you a chance to have long gravity in your pitching crew. Really concentrate in following through.(pitching ball back and forth to each other)."