Thanks a lot! This is exactly what my son does as well. This video is super informative. 👍

@robbyrow

Ай бұрын

FIRE ME UP!

This is the best breakdown video of throwing mechanics I’ve ever watched. I’m 32, playing in a men’s league, but I still struggle with proper arm path. The tidbits in this video are extremely helpful.

@thortorrens

Ай бұрын

Dude I’m 39 and I throw harder now than I did as a college pitcher lol. Wish I had KZread back then.

dude this is amazing. i had arm problems and had a ex-mlb guy help me out. he didn’t really explain what we were doing to replicate it but it did work for a few years. then i got messed up again and didnt have the tools to fix myself. but this is like learning the thought process and clear explanation of it all.

7:13 legs position are inverted

@joem8496

Ай бұрын

I was like dude, that drill was a warmup now we're doing something different!

@chrisporter9881

19 күн бұрын

His glove side leg is supposed to be foward correct?

@ronholt2044

13 күн бұрын

​@@chrisporter9881Yes, I noticed the same thing, the student's throwing side foot is forward while the instructor's glove side foot is forward when he demonstrates. ???

Good stuff rob

For future reference, some kids are imaginative learners, myself included, and I found the easiest way to get through to them is to describe grabbing the baseball off the back shelf. I had a really great teacher give me that extremely basic image in my head to work with and it changed my arm action immediately. Since the biggest point in all of this is to have a consistent start point for every throw, creating that static image picture of grabbing an item directly behind you makes replicating that very easy. It’s also great because it teaches full extension minimizing snap and tear on the arm in transition. Another great image to work with that I just thought of while typing this is picturing a relay. Good arm mechanics would look like what it would be to perfectly catch the ball in relay as a cutoff but visualizing catching it with your bare hand instead. Then, starting transition turning to where your throwing it in one fluid motion. This could be a great one if the shelf example seems too simple.

Robby, awesome tips here! Some shared advice I've used and with my 9 y/o grandson, "hand from body separation" and "lead with the elbow". Kid's got the best throwing mechanics on his travel ball team. Definitely reviewing this YT vid with him will fine tune him with less "loop", pulling back on the horizontal tit line, less looping the hand and with a goal to throw less at the RHB head. Appreciate the share, greatly.

@robbyrow

Ай бұрын

Fire me uppp!! Love that!! Kid is going to be special! Appreciate you sharing!

Brooo I’m trying this today with one of my athletes. QUALITY CONTENT!

@robbyrow

Ай бұрын

hummmmmBABEEEE

Great video, great insight, and great suggestions for correcting the extra movement in the throw. I'll be looking at our players throws a little closer after watching this!

@robbyrow

Ай бұрын

Fire me up!! appreciate the kind words!! Love to hear that!

Amazing work

What can I do to make sure that my lower body is creating the energy instead of creating artificial arm speed? (Tension in the upper half). Thank you for a very insightful video

@BIGHEADjr51

14 күн бұрын

U don’t watch this

Robby, wonderful. As a coach I have learn exactly this technique of teaching how to throw to kids. I've learned that by a AAA junior pitcher here in Quebec that was coaching my son. I show kids to pitch that way and they all pitch straight and hard in a matter of minutes. It is magical! I use the words "shoot like if you use a bow." And they all understand how i want them to pitch. 🥰😇😉

@robbyrow

Ай бұрын

That's moneyyy!! Appreciate you sharing!

@BIGHEADjr51

14 күн бұрын

What is a aaa jr pitcher? Lol

@yannickjoyal5592

14 күн бұрын

​@@BIGHEADjr51in Quebec, junior AAA, is the highest level of baseball competition before getting recruited or stop playing. It is for 18 to 21 years old players. The player who teached me this technique is the private coach of my son and threw 92 mph.

Lol when someone is talking to me and they throw it I drop it too😂

Early cocking his elbow and winging out will exactly do what you’re saying. Good comment

Unfortunately this coach like all others don't know the difference in intuitive Forearm supinated Joint pathomechanical throws and safe elbow articulation Forearm pronated throws. Yoth pitchers wuill suffer until this is learned by all. Step behing is called a drop step. Step forwards is called a cross step. In order for the arm transition to sync up for pronated throws you should use a cross (Crow step) step.

Travel ball at 9 lol

People have different physiology. Trying to teach kids by putting them in a box of what it should look like is a recipe for early elbow and shoulder injuries. This kid has a long languid motion naturally…it’s not wrong. Madison bumgarner throws similarly and he did alright. The kid is inconsistent because he is young and growing into his body. He doesn’t need to be accurate or consistent until he’s older. Telling him to shorten his motion by early cocking his elbow will pop his elbow. The arm needs to first extend and then come into the cocked position as this gives the ball forward momentum and makes it ‘lighter’ before you load the elbow.

@airanator1212

Ай бұрын

I actually really like your points, especially on full extension as it puts as little straight on the arm as possible when beginning that transition forward. However, I disagree on the exception that this kid being young is an excuse on him getting his arm action wrong. Getting a sense of what your mechanics should be at the earliest age possible is always best case scenario. You growing into your body doesn’t affect your mechanics because they should always be in the back of your mind. I was pretty fortunate to have a lot of amazing teachers and influences at a very young age to where my mechanics didn’t change very much at all as I got older. They were pretty complete very early on. Me growing never affected how I executed those mechanics because I always had a mental reminder of how it feels to go through them. And because of that, I never had to deal with injury. At one point in time in high school I was playing on 3 different teams, traveling a lot, and pitching/throwing a lot. Never once was I ever injured because I minimized that possibility by getting the most efficiency out of my throws at the earliest age possible.

@robbyrow

Ай бұрын

it's worth mentioning that this was a rehab throwing lesson. meaning he's coming off elbow surgery so the main emphasis is going to be isolating his arm action so he's not vulnerable to the amount of force being applied when throwing.

@ryansemenetz

16 күн бұрын

The point of the drills are not to completely change his arm action but to get him to be behind the ball more when throwing. As mentioned in one of the throws, his body found a way to have a longer arm path but also get into optimal position to release. It’s post injury drilling not a complete revamp of arm action

Umm around 750 he’s literally demonstrating with his glove foot forward yet the kids is throwing foot forward

The way u teach is uhhhhhhh let’s just say- ouch

This guy teaches slinging not throwing. He needs to learn about the 3rd Class leverage of the humerus (upper arm) converting power generated at the shoulder (fulcrum) into speed of the lever.

I think the kid does not respond at all like everyone thinks he does! I could teach him so much better!