Pitching tips – how to pitch fast

Most of the people who start baseball and start pitching ask me. How do you pitch fast? That is the number one thing that everybody always ask. How do you pitch 100 mile fastballs. Well here are some tips I can provide you.

1. You must use weight shifting when pitching.

When you pitch, you should keep your weight centered on your back leg. When I say back leg, I mean the leg that you balance on when you raise your front leg. For example, for a right hand pitcher, the back leg would be your right leg. Anyway, it is important to keep the weight center on your back leg. Then, at your release point, or when you actually throw the ball off of your fingers, you quickly shift your weight to the front leg.

This is important in that you can put all of your weight into your ball as you shift the weight from the back to the front. This is probably the key thing to pitching fast. An example of this is Ryu-Hyun-Jin, a famous left pitcher of Korea.

2. Keep your stride long

Stride is the action in which after you lift your knee, you move your leg forward to land. Keeping your stride long allows you to pitch at a point that is closer to the batter. This not only allows you to pitch faster (because you can throw at a lesser distance to the batter) but it also stabilizes your accuracy. A good example of a fire baller with long stride is Tim Lincecum. He has a long stride that is almost as long as his height or even longer.

3. Use your hips efficiently.

Even if you have a weak arm, you can still throw fastball with just the rotation of your body. If you have a nice, soft pitching form, you can overcome that weakness. Something that you should do to overcome that is using your hips well. The timing when the hip opens up is very important. Many pitchers open it too fast or some pitchers open it too slow. In order to open it at an efficient timing, you can use your front shoulder or the stride knee to lead. Or, you can use your glove to make it an imaginary wall that you push right before releasing the ball. Whatever you do, if you make sure that your hip doesn’t open up too fast or too slow, you can use that rotating energy to whip the ball at the batter. The rotating energy will definitely make your ball faster. An example of a pitcher who uses his hips very well is Roy Halladay.

Pitching style – Overhand

If you watch a game of baseball, we can see that all of the pitchers have their unique form of pitching style. Some pitchers use their whole b0dy to throw the ball forward, or some pitchers use their tall height to nail it down to the catcher. All of these pitching styles can be divided into four kinds of style. Today, I will be writing about one of them. The overhand pitching style.

Extreme overhand pitcher Hideki Okajima

The overhand pitching style is the most common kind of pitching style that the pitchers use. As the wording can tell you, overhand pitching style is when the pitcher throws the ball at a release point highter than the head. The swing of the arm is perpendicular to the ground, and the swing goes over the head. This high point of release allows the pitchers to give a faster and higher delivery, which is part of the reason why so many pitchers pitch overhand.

The overhand pitching style’s advantage is that,like I said, it can make your ball faster. The projectory, the backspin that is put on the ball when pitched overhand, and the height of the release point all allows the pitchers to throw faster. It also has the advantage of allowing the pitcher to put their weight on to the ball, making the ball heavy and fast. The high release point also allows the pitchers to pitch good curves that will drop from a high point to the low ground.

The disadvantage of overhand pitching style is that it is easy for the shoulder to get damaged. The excess work that the shoulder must go through during the pitch causes stress and tiredness to build up. Extreme overhand pitchers are known to have a short careers. Another disadvantage is that since it is so common, the projectory of the ball is well known to the batters. This might lead to getting hitted on a massive scale.

Many famous pitcher who use this pitching style are Tim Linccecum, Nolan Ryan, Roy Halladay, CC Sabathia and others. These pitchers are known, or have known to have a fastball that overwhelms the batter.