Hip hop

This drill is a good one to teach your athlete about weight transfer. It can be added to the other two throwing drills we have spoken about or to substitute in your rotation of drills to keep it fresh. During this drill your players need to back up a little because we are going to throw faster than in the other drills. Make sure your team is lubed up well and ready to let the ball go before starting this. To do this drill, we are going to hip to the lead foot, taking a small hop forward before hopping back to the throwing side leg. Now, we are going to teach our athlete to hesitate on that back leg for a short time. How long, about the time it takes to snap your fingers. Let’s talk about what the players doing during that hesitation. We should encourage them to really slow it down to “feel” the body weight loaded on the throwing leg side, And, we want to teach them to push down into the ground before driving forward. Wow, this is going to be enlightening, career changing to your athlete. It is something called ground reaction force, it is important to athletes, especially our pitchers and hitters. We will talk about that later in simplified terms. Let’s get back to executing the drill; we have hopped back, pushed down into the ground and now we begin to drive forward towards the target, our throwing hand separating from the glove-on time- our hands works the Magic Circle- back to forward in an efficient manner, unfurling forward as we release the ball out in front of your face, fingers behind the ball. The ball peels off the fingertips creating powerful backspin. When you watch the video, watch the lead leg, it stops or blocks your momentum from going any further this is extremely important. Have fun, doing this one. Take 10-12 reps and really slow it down when initiating this into your practices..