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Lower body mechanics to throw 95 mph.
There are four things about the lower body that I wish I knew when I was a 16 year old throwing 78 miles an hour and trying to throw 90 miles an hour and beyond.
The first is the leg lift and how well you're able to start creating momentum toward the target.
One of the biggest mistakes people make is thinking they need to fall forward as soon as they lift their leg to create drift.
What worked for me was coming to a balance point first and then starting to shift my weight from there.
That's still a form of drift, and you see a lot of Japanese pitchers do this, like Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
The second component is the back leg and how it creates linear momentum toward the target.
One of the biggest mistakes I made was diving too much into the quad.
I'd get onto my toes and sink into my quad, which led to less power and actually made rotating much harder.
Another mistake I made was squatting as deep as possible into the back leg, almost like a pistol squat.
What actually helped me was simply dropping down as quickly as possible.
I let gravity pull me down.
If you've created enough drift, even just a slight drift, that drop will create linear momentum down the mound.
The third component is getting the pelvis to rotate into foot plant.
The biggest thing here is matching your pelvis plane of rotation and making sure the pelvis rotates down into foot plant rather than rotating upward.
One of my favorite cues for this is to slam the knee down or get onto your shoelaces.
The last component is simple.
It's the lead leg block.
You're trying to block all of the momentum you've created like your life depends on it.
For me, I tried to extend as high as I could.
That actually helped my pelvis continue to rotate because as the front leg extends, the pelvis gets more open.
Those are the four things I wish I knew about the lower body when I was trying to gain pitching velocity.
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$ELF popping 4.4% today. Rhode is absolutely killing it for them. Just dropped one of the most hyped makeup releases in ages with quick sellouts.
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