Alright, the first progression, five feet away from my catcher, no matter what pitch I am doing, I first do a self toss and then a soft toss to my catcher. So I am just showing the curve, soft toss to my catcher. Make sure my spin is absolutely correct; do not leave the station until you have got it perfect.
Two steps back, I am still doing soft toss. Soft toss, is my spin correct? I've got it good. Two steps back, soft toss again; I also call these half tosses. I add the right amount of arm speed to get it there according to my distance, okay. Two more steps back, I do a couple of more soft tosses and I am ready to add the windmill. I do a slow arm, slow arm. Slow arm snap whatever pitch I am working on. Two more steps back the slow arm again, but the speed appropriate for the distance.
Two more steps back, I am ready to square up and add soft legs. So I would step slowly, probably about 50% speed, throw my pitch. Two more steps back, I am still squared up, throw the pitch, okay. Two more steps back, I am at the mound, do a few about 60-70%; two more steps back, behind the mound now. I am going to have to be pitching about 70%, take a little walk step and do the pitch. I go back again two more steps behind the mound spinning the ball, the distance makes me work even harder to spin it.
Finally, I am ready to get on the mound. I am on the mound, I am going to pitch 80%, then I am going to pitch 90% speed, and finally, I am at 100% speed, making that pitch happen. It takes a lot of patience to go through those drills. If you will very smartly work on that spin step-by-step. You will develop a better pitch.
I know in the past, I have been a little impatient and gotten people on the mound too fast and they just don't get the spin mastered as good as they should. So do your progression drills and we are going to have dynamite advanced pitches.
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