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This is our break position. You will notice that we are into the scarecrow position with the arms, this arm is out and flexed just a little bit. These arms flexed just a little bit. Fingers are on top of the ball, glove is turned and facing away. This is going to allow us to isolate and work just strictly on the glove tuck, which if you watch players, if you go a little egg diner and if you go to high school field and you watch how many give you a glove tuck. Bring that glove back into the body. You are going to find less than half do it properly maybe even less in that depending on where you are at.
So this is our chance to teach how to do that and we do this with high school players. It is great to do with eight, nine, ten-year-old kids. This is our break position again. Break Brian, that is our break and from here I am just going to say throw. When I say throw Brian is going to bring that glove back to his chest. He is going to get the arm into a ninety degree angle and make the throw to his partner. Ready, throw.
And you will notice that he gets a nice follow through. He is going to finish up, okay feet spread at least shoulder with the part. Break. Throw.
Notice his grip on the ball, break. His fingers are on top of the ball. He also has a four scene grip. Throw, tucks the glove and a nice follow through, break. Throw. Again we are just isolating that glove and allowing it to come back into the body that is an extra two to four miles per hour. If you learn how to that properly I suppose if you do not do it all.
Part two of the drill will be to take it from the break position and work backwards. We are going to work to what we a call a ready position. Hands in front of the chest, hands here, when I say break we are going to take a small step with our front foot and we are going to split our hands back into that scarecrow position, break. Throw.
So, we are doing is just inching our way back to a normal throw. Ready. Break. Throw. And a nice follow through, ready? Break. Throw.
The third and final portion of this drill is what we call ready and throw. We are going to put the whole thing back together again without any stops. There will be no stopping between, no break position on this one. He will go back through the glove tuck but he is not going to stop this time. Ready. Throw. Out and back in a nice normal throwing technique. This is a great way to teach young players how to put their throwing technique together one step at a time. Ready? Throw. Out and back.
Again we want the players concentrating on getting that glove facing backwards and making sure they pull back hard to allow their arm to increase the velocity. Ready. Throw. Very nice.
Again step by step approach to teaching people how to throw the ball properly and although the technique may differ from position to position the drill never changes and we can work regardless of whether you got to catcher throwing the way he throws or an outfielder like Brian is throwing the way he throws. We can all do it together all at the same time to help teach that glove tuck. A nice release with the hands to make sure the technique we hold the ball with is what we need.
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