The three part of throwing drill is a drill that allows 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 need some help with our technique in throwing. We just want to take advantage on what we have. If we can pick up a couple of miles an hour by gripping the ball right, if we can pick up a couple of miles an hour by making sure we get a good glove tucked we want to do that.
By slowing things down, backing up and doing it one at a time, it allows us to be able to 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, this arm is out and flexed just a little bit. This arm is flexed just a little bit, fingers are on top of the ball, and glove is turned and facing away.
This is going to allow us to isolate and work just strictly glove tuck, which if you watch players, if you are going to little league dime, or 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 a half to do it properly, may be even less than that, depending on where you are at.
This is our chance to teach how to do that and we do this with high school players. It is great to do it with eight, nine, 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. You will notice that he gets a nice follow through. He is going to finish up, feet spread at least shoulder width apart, break, throw. Notice his grip on the ball. Break, his fingers are on top of the ball. He also has a four-seam 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 will learn how to do that properly as opposed if you do not do it at all.
Break, throw, we also want to make sure that Bryan is looking down at 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 to take it 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 of that front foot and we are going to split our hands back into that scarecrow position, break, throw. So, what 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 stop in 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, and 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 the increased in 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 or whether you got a catcher throwing the way he throws or an outfielder like Bryan is throwing the way he throws. We can all do it together and I will do it same time to help teach that glove tuck, a nice release with the hands to make sure that the technique we hold the ball with is what we need and to put that whole thing back together step by step.
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