How To Play Baseball: 3 Part Throwing Drill

(Music playing) Three Part Throwing Drill is a drill that allow us to isolate parts of the throwing technique at a time and put it back together in some meaningful fashion. You will be surprised how many older players needs some help with our technique in throwing. We just want to take advantage of what we have, if we can pick up couple miles an hour by gripping the ball right. If we can pick up a couple miles an hour by making sure we get a good glove tuck, we want to do that, and by slowing things down backing up and doing it one at a time, it allows us to be able to do that. Bryan is going to help me here with regard to our techniques. This is our break position. You will notice that we are into the scarecrow position with the arms, these arms out and flex just a little bit. This arm flex just a little bit, fingers are on top of the ball, and glove is turn and facing away. This is going to allow us to isolate and work just strictly on the glove tuck, which if you watch payers, if you got a little league diamond, or if you go to High School field and you watch how many give you a glove tuck, bring that glove back in to the body. You are going to fine less than half, do it properly, maybe even less than that, depending on where you are at. So, this is our chance to teach you how to do that. We do this with High School players. It is great to do it with 8, 9, 10 year-old kids. This is our break position again, break Bryan, that is our break and from here, I am just going to say throw. When I say throw, Bryan is going to bring that glove back to his chest. He is going to get the arm into a 90 degree-angle and make the throw to his partner. Ready? Throw. And you notice that he gets a nice follow throw. He is going to finish up, feet spread at least shoulder width apart, break and throw. You notice there is a grip on the ball break, his fingers are on top of the ball. He also has a forcing grip. Throw, taps the glove and a nice follow through, break and 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 will learn how to do that properly I suppose if you do not do it at all. Break, throw. We also want to make sure that Bryan is looking down the gun barrel. He has got that glove pointed directly to his partner and that is going to increase his accuracy when he does release the ball. Not to mention the velocity is going to pick up with that glove tuck. A part two of the drill will be the take off from the break position and work backwards we are going to work to what we 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 and throw. So, what we are doing is just inching our way back to a normal throw, ready break, throw and a nice follow throw. 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 the tuck but he is not going to stop this time. Ready. Throw. Out and back and a nice normal throwing technique. This is a great way to teach young players how to put the 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 being increase of velocity. Ready. Throw, very nice. Again, step by step approach 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 catch or throwing the way he throws or now field like Bryan is throwing the way he throws. We can now 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 and to put that whole thing back together step by step. (Music playing)