Tucking My Pelvis Made Me Throw Harder.
Tuck your pelvis and stay stacked.
This is very, very case-dependent to where this is gonna help the guys who get into extension early.
What I mean by extension is basically when your pelvis is tucked, it's in this posterior tilt, okay?
It's, like, rolled this way.
You can kind of see right here.
But when it's in anterior tilt, we're more in this position.
What we wanna do is to tuck the pelvis and be in posterior tilt during the leg lift, right?
We wanna get into this position, and then as we come out of it, that's gonna allow us to have our pelvis to be pretty neutral going down the mound.
But what happens sometimes, and especially for me, who's, you know, naturally very anterior pelvic tilt, I would get into my leg lift and I'd already be in kind of an anterior pelvic tilt, right?
It wouldn't be here.
I'd be kind of here.
And now what happens is as I get out of this leg lift, I'm straight into anterior pelvic tilt right here.
I'm getting into my quad.
I'm in anterior pelvic tilt, and I'm super cross-body.
For those guys who get into this position a little too early in their drive, this is gonna help a lot because when we keep our pelvis tucked, and one of the cues that I like is just suck your stomach in.
Try to be, like, as skinny as possible.
When you do that, you're naturally gonna tuck yourself in.
You're gonna stay stacked.
This is the position that I wanna stay in throughout my drive.
And obviously, you can't keep posterior pelvic tilt this whole time.
Like, you'll be in, like, a crazy position like this.
But what we wanna do is find posterior pelvic tilt in our leg lift, right?
Tuck it.
Get this tucked, and then now as we come out, we can be in a neutral position rather than be in anterior pelvic tilt and get into extension too early.
Throw Through the Target for More Velocity.
Everyone talks about hip-to-shoulder separation, and yeah, 80% of pitching velocity comes from hip-to-shoulder separation.
Other 20% is how well you actually track toward the target, and you’re able to direct energy through the target.
And so that’s where this cue comes in, which is throw through the target.
And so if we break down this cue for a second, if we think about we’re gonna throw through the target, then naturally we’re gonna convert all of this rotational energy that we created with the hip-to-shoulder separation, and we’re gonna stop it to be able to direct it all toward the plate.
One of the big things that I see a lot of kids do, and this is something that I made a mistake with, you know, with the Phillies and the Rangers, I created a delivery that I would just pull off.
I was trying to create so much power just with rotation that this was kinda how I was throwing, which was I’ll pull as hard as I could with my glove side, and then this would just whip through.
And it feels explosive, it feels whippy, it feels like I’m gonna throw gas.
But what’s actually happening is that I’m leaking a lot of energy going toward this way, right?
There’s a lot of energy going this way, rather than it being all through the target.