The lower half movements of the pitching delivery would be labeled as the legs and hips. Many pitchers are told they need better lower half movements to throw harder or to become more accurate in the strike zone but many pitchers don’t know how. The first step to...
There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of studies on pitching performance that mainly focus on the upper body. The problem is energy comes from the lower half musculature interacting with the ground. These "ground reaction forces" is what the pitcher uses in his...
Unless you come from the Domingo Ayala school of Beisbol, who believes power pitching is with the arm: "I have never seen a power pitcher with a flame on his leg!" - Domingo Ayala Then you should have no problem understanding how important the legs are to not only...
Just after writing my latest article on how Met pitchers continue to have arm problems I get the alert that another one is down for the count. Bobby Parnell is out with a partial tear of his UCL. I then searched YouTube for some video of him pitching and look at what...
