Lower Half Pitching Mechanics: The Load – Simplified (Part 2 of 4)

Use your legs. Use your lower half. Sounds great but, “what the heck does it mean”? Coaches often cue this as if it’s one single thing. In reality, a proper use of the lower half has 4 different but connected and sequential components. In Part 2 of this 4 part series on lower half pitching mechanics, we’ll take a closer look and break down what I refer to as the Load phase.

- Part 1 – Drift
- Part 2 – Load
- Part 3 – Drive / Rotate
- Part 4 – Block Continue reading “Lower Half Pitching Mechanics: The Load — Simplified (Part 2 of 4)”

January 6, 2018March 24, 2021

Power from Lower Half Pitching Mechanics

As a part of what we do here at RPP, we’re always reviewing and analyzing pitching video of all different ages, levels and size. I can say without a doubt that 8 out of 10 or 80% of all pitchers we analyze lack sufficient use of their lower half. Continue reading “Power from Lower Half Pitching Mechanics”

December 29, 2017February 13, 2021

Engaging the Lower Half to Create Power… Ground Reaction Forces – Part 2

In Part 1 of this series (click here), we talked about the importance of loading the lower half to help avoid a “quad dominant” delivery, some of the mechanical disconnects associated with quad dominance and certain things we can do to help get that ever elusive hip hinge. Today, we’re going to look at early hip rotation and its effect on maintaining force into the ground longer. This is a big disconnect we often see which ironically begins with the inadequate glute load we talked about in Part 1. Continue reading “Engaging the Lower Half to Create Power… Ground Reaction Forces — Part 2”