Glide Stage in Baseball Pitching

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Mike Lumley. On behalf of Expert Village, I'm here to teach you pitching. As we move here, what I'm going to create and what we're going to do here is what we call in place or a glide stage of our pitching. There's 2 that I really call crucial that gets you into the first few stages that we just went through. One is the balance stage and one is the glide stage. The balance stage, just to be quick, is to get ourselves up and down in a balanced position. The glide stage is from the bottom of our balance giving us direction to the plate. These 2 are probably what I call the most crucial stages in your pitching, the ones that will create the most mistakes and bad results in the end. What we're going to do here is in the glide stage, we're going to balance over our back foot and we're going to try and hold that for 2 seconds. As we said, balance is crucial. We want to make sure that we're in this position making sure our front foot balanced over our back foot so we can be linear to the plate. What we're going to do here is balance up, drop our hands, and throw."