Hi brent,

I've got a video of my pitching here which i would love to get some video analysis on:

I'm 21 years old, and live in the Netherlands. I really want to improve my pitching to help my struggling team to win some games. I think there's a lot of improvements i can make on my mechanics, right now i'm working on keeping my arm pointed more towards 2nd base in my motion, you'll notice it flies open towards first base a LOT which also causes me to look away from my target, better view in this video:

I also saw in my video that there isn't much hip/shoulder separation and no external rotation at all really. I'm not sure what i should work on first, and how exactly, so i was hoping you might know some ways/drills to work on this.

Thanks in advance,

Peter

I understand your point about my age Zedoryu, I'm 21 and i throw about as hard as some 14 year olds in the US…

I don't know what amateur baseball is like in the US, but here, I've been coached by my dad pretty much my entire life, up to now, and my dad had never touched a baseball before i started playing. He could learn me some basics but he never knew how to really train a pitcher well. I've actually always been one of the best players on my team, but that's the lowest level of baseball we got here :P

Now, there's no professional goals or anything for me in baseball, i just really really love the game, and like getting better at it. These last years I've tried to train myself, never really having serious pitching training, except for a few times during winter. I just want to do as good as i can, with the limited time and resources available to me, I'm mostly trying to do drills and workouts that i can do at home.

Now, about the arm flying out, I see you're right about Chapman, but I thought the fact that my head is pulled away from my target will really reduce my control as well, and I thought it needed to be a smoother arm motion from hand-glove separation to release point, but i can see Chapman also comes to a bit of a stop with his arm. So i guess that can't be all that bad if he can throw 105 mph with it :)

Thanks for your comment, I won't take anything too critically, and it's never too much info, i love info, since im trying to teach myself to be a better pitcher, it's always welcome!