MOST PRECISE, MOST SIMPLE, BEST & SAFEST BASEBALL PITCHING-MECHANICS!
NOTE: BEFORE CLICKING HERE to view the "Static-stance starting-position"ⓒ DEFINITIVELY correct execution ADDENDUM instructional video-tutorial, both FIRST view the original "Static-stance starting-position"ⓒ instructional video-tutorial (which can be viewed by CLICKING HERE) AND READ the written instructions below.
THE WRITTEN INSTRUCTION below includes a note detailing the means by which to achieve glove-side lateral tilt (which I refer to as extreme lateral tilt) in correct execution of each pitching-delivery, which extremely important instruction I somehow managed to overlook providing in BOTH the original and the ADDENDUM "Static-stance starting-position"ⓒ instructional video-tutorials. THEREFORE, be certain that you gain that instruction by reading what follows below.
INTRODUCTION
Nearly three years ago from the date of this composition, I transitioned to employing the "static-stance starting-position"ⓒ.
You can read about that near the top of the home page of my (this) Outman Methodology™ blog site.
Through mechanical execution trial and experimentation requiring execution of thousands of pitching-deliveries, I gave myself a full year of working toward its definitively correct execution before I shared what progress I had made by producing and posting the original "Static-stance starting-position"ⓒ etc. correct execution instructional video tutorial", the purpose of which was to give a "head start" to anyone who wished the opportunity to get started with "static-stance starting-position"ⓒ.
Additional thousands and thousands of pitching-deliveries executed over an additional one and three-quarter years after posting the "Static-stance starting-position"ⓒ etc. correct execution instructional video tutorial" was necessary for me to work through all possible variations (that I was capable of indentifying) of sequence and simultaneity of execution of the elements of a "static-stance starting-position"ⓒ pitching-delivery toward determining what alterations in execution constituted its definitively correct execution. Definitively correct execution being that which consistently resulted in the best velocity, command and movement of the pitched-baseball, at which I was satisfied that I arrived only a couple of weeks ago before the date of this composition.
Some alterations occurred naturally, such as the reduction of the "moments of greatest leverage" from four to three as well as the loss of the rotational momentum achieved through the combination of a normal walking-step in the direction of the catcher and execution of "advanced the now moment", which momentum obviously needed to be replaced and, hopefully, even improved upon.
All other alterations necessary to achieve what, ultimately, would constitute definitively correct execution remained to be discovered by means of the above referenced trial and experimentation, which definitively correct alterations I am now passing on to you.
The definitively correct execution of "Static-stance starting-position"ⓒ advanced overall mechanical execution Finalized Outman Methodology™ Rotational Pitchingⓒ on the Vertical Plane" is tested, true, reliable and awesome as to pitcher health and pitched-baseball results produced. Additionally, in relative terms, it is simple (even simpler/less complex than previous iterations of Outman Methodology™) and easier to execute.
Though this written effort is admittedly inferior to a definitively correct "static-stance starting-position" instructional video tutorial addendum, I will, nevertheless, do my best below to convey to you how to accomplish that definitively correct execution.
INSTRUCTION
The following instruction begins at "SET."
Therefore, if you do not already know how both to deliver your body to "set" and your glove-arm and pitching-arm to their respective "final ready position" in execution of Outman Methodology™, consult the "Static-stance starting-position"ⓒ instructional video tutorial on the Outman Methodology™ YouTube channel (which can be accessed through the "CLICKING HERE" link in the first paragraph at the top of this page).
"THE FINAL READY POSITION"
1) Deliver your pitching-Arm to its "final ready position" as instructed in the "Static-stance starting-position"ⓒ instructional video tutorial on the Outman Methodology™ YouTube channel.
In reference to the "final ready position" of your pitching-arm, be absolutely certain to continue contracting the upper aspect of your pitching-side Trapezius muscle (shrugging, in other words) until you have delivered your pitching-shoulder to the "third moment of greatest leverage."
It is very easy to lose one's focus on continuing to shrug with the upper aspect of the pitching-side Trapezius muscle once one has engaged in explosively contracting the glove-side Latissimus Dorsi muscle to sweep the glove-arm down toward the ground from its "final ready position".
DO NOT allow yourself to relax the shrugging related contraction of the upper aspect of your pitching-side Trapezius muscle before you have delivered your pitching-shoulder to the "third moment of greatest leverage."
Relaxing the upper aspect of your pitching-side Trapezius muscle prematurely will lower the pathway, the "slot" of your pitching-arm adversely affecting the pitching-performance factors (velocity, command and movement).
2) In reference to "the final ready position" of your glove-arm, quickly flip your glove-hand and glove skyward to full extension/painless hyperextension (while making a slight fist with you glove-Hand in your glove) followed by a slight bounce-back of your glove-Hand and glove from that full extension/hyperextension.
At the moment of bounce-back, slightly contract both the Biceps muscle of your glove-arm and your glove-side Latissimus Dorsi muscle. So doing will pause your glove-arm while drawing it downward toward the ground about an inch, which constitutes the "final ready position" for your glove-arm.
Pausing your glove-arm, briefly, at what constitutes its "final ready position" dissipates all deleterious force and trailing momentum created by the act of flipping your glove-hand and glove skyward.
It is imperative that you develop a comfortable (not too rapid, but definitely not slow) and repeatable rhythm of execution first in delivering your glove-arm to its "final ready position" from "set" and, then, in transitioning to explosively contracting your glove-side Latissimus Dorsi muscle to initiate rotational acceleration in the direction of the catcher by sweeping your glove-arm downward toward the ground, alongside the glove-side of your body and, ultimately, rearward of your body in the direction of second base from its "final ready position."
NOTE: This is the point in the pitching-delivery when definitively correct execution differs materially and consequentially from that presented in the original "Static-stance starting-position"ⓒ correct execution instructional video tutorial".
ROTATIONAL ACCELERATION
3) From the "final ready position" (while also maintaining your "static-stance" and the rearward arching of your back), maintain your pitching-arm in its "final ready position" and explosively contract (and continue to contract) your glove-side Latissimus Dorsi muscle to sweep your glove-arm downward toward the ground, alongside of and, then, rearward of the glove-side of your body in the direction of second base.
On explosively contracting your glove-side Latissimus Dorsi muscle, the Triceps muscle on the back of your upper glove-arm will likewise contract. Later, when the elbow of your glove-arm approaches the glove-side of your Torso, the lower aspect of your glove-side Trapezius muscle will contract contributing to so-called Scapular Loading.
When you physically feel your glove-side Latissimus Dorsi muscle nearly fully contracting (bunching up), which will coincide with the elbow of your glove-arm progressing to alongside of (even possibly slightly rearward) of the glove-side of your Torso, THAT is the physical sensation, the "trigger" for you simultaneously to initiate "Crossing Your Belt Line", to rotate the Knee of your pivot-leg inward toward the center of your body and to rotate the Heel of your rear pivot-foot outward from your body.
4) In execution of "Crossing Your Belt Line", contract your glove-side Oblique Abdominal muscles followed by your Front Abdominal muscles lightly (but extremely rapidly) followed by explosive and persistent contraction of your pitching-side Oblique Abdominal muscles.
Focus on rapidly getting to your pitching-side Oblique Abdominal muscles for the purpose of rotating/accelerating your pitching-Shoulder up, over and in the direction of the glove of the catcher to the "Third Moment of Greatest Leverage."
NOTE: In the case of "Static-stance Starting-position"ⓒ, DO NOT explosively contract your glove-side Oblique Abdominal muscles to initiate "Crossing Your Belt Line."
If you do, you will not cross your belt line through your Front Abdominal muscles to your pitching-side Oblique Abdominal muscles.
Instead, your muscle contractions will essentially stall where your glove-side Obliques and Front Abs meet failing, thereby, to cross over to your pitching-side Oblique Abdominal muscles.
Therefore, to avoid that pitfall, focus primarily on explosive contraction of your pitching-side Oblique abdominal muscles. In so doing, "Crossing Your Belt Line" will, essentially, occur automatically.
NOTE ABOUT GLOVE-SIDE (Extreme lateral) TILT: SIMULTANEOUS both with explosively contracting your pitching-side Oblique Abdominal muscles as instructed in"4" above and rotating the Knee of your rear pivot-Leg and Heel of your rear pivot-Foot as instructed in "5" below, explosively contract the muscles of your lower back on the glove-side of your body. Those muscles are in the area of your Kidney on the glove-side of your body.
SO DOING will help you to achieve a vertical to the ground orientation pathway of the Humerus (upper Arm) of your pitching-Arm in the direction of the catcher.
ADDITIONALLY, and very importantly, at the same time that you are explosively contracting your pitching-side Oblique Abdominal muscles to rotate and accelerate the pitching-side of your Pelvis in the direction of the catcher, explosively contracting the muscles of your lower back on the glove-side of your body works to rotate and accelerate the glove-side of your Pelvis in the direction of second base assisting, synergistically thereby, in rotating and accelerating the entirety of the pitching-side of your body in the direction of the catcher.
THE ABOVE described conscious employ of the muscles of your lower back on the glove-side of your body is unique to Outman Methodology™ for pitching a baseball. And, so doing assists toward achieving vertical to the ground orientation of the Humerus of your pitching-Arm and accelerating rotationally the entirety of the pitching-side of your body in the direction of the catcher, which, together, contribute greatly to the superiority of all pitching-performance factors and to the health of the pitcher associated with correct execution of Outman Methodology™.
Shame on me for overlooking (as mentioned above) providing that instruction in both "Static-stance starting-position"ⓒ instructional video-tutorials.
BE CERTAIN, THEN, that, from this written instruction, you clearly understand and correctly incorporate extreme lateral tilt in the direction of the glove-side of your body into your execution of each pitching-delivery as instructed above.
5) Consistent with previous instruction, employ the inner Thigh/Groin muscles of your rear pivot-Leg and the muscles on the outside of the Calf of your rear pivot-Leg explosively to rotate the Knee of your rear pivot-Leg inward toward the center of your body and the Heel of your rear pivot-Foot outward from your body for the dual purpose of rotating/accelerating your rear/pitching-side pivot-Hip in the direction of the catcher and your pitching-Shoulder up, over and in the direction of the glove of the catcher to the "Third Moment of Greatest Leverage."
Visualize rotating your rear pivot/pitching-side Hip and the Heel of your rear pivot-Foot all the way around and in the direction of second base ("The Second Base Rule").
6) Unlike all previous instruction, DO NOT, at this point, explosively contract the upper aspect of your pitching-side Trapezius muscle to whip your pitching-Arm rearward of your body against the created in-the-direction-of-the-catcher rotational movement, acceleration, torsion and torque.
Rather, as instructed above, maintain sufficient contraction of the upper aspect of the Trapezius muscle on the pitching-side of your body to continue "shrugging" until you have delivered your pitching-Shoulder to the "Third Moment of Greatest Leverage." So doing requires practiced mental focus and physical discipline.
Maintaining the "shrug" in the upper aspect of your pitching-side Trapezius muscle will allow your pitching-Arm and Hand (by reason of your relaxed pitching-side Rotator Cuff) to rotate rearward toward so-called "Scapular Loading" as your pitching-shoulder progresses toward the "Third Moment of Greatest Leverage."
"THE THIRD MOMENT OF GREATEST LEVERAGE"
7) When you have delivered your pitching-Shoulder up, over and in the direction of the catcher to the point when it feels as though you have delivered your pitching-shoulder into the glove of the catcher, you have delivered your pitching-Shoulder to "The Third Moment of Greatest Leverage."
This is also the point in the pitching-delivery when the pitching-shoulder feels as though it is angling downward.
However, in my experience, the combination of visualizing delivering the pitching-Shoulder into the glove of the catcher together with physically feeling as though that has been achieved constitute a much stronger and more easily detectable physical sensation to serve as an execution-related constant/trigger than is attempting to detect the feeling that the pitching-Shoulder is angling downward.
Understand that "The Third Moment of Greatest Leverage" is transitory. It is not a finishing point, a terminus. In other words, your pitching-Shoulder is also subject to "The Second Base Rule" after having initiated the below.
"FOLLOW-THROUGH" TO THE RELEASE-POINT OF THE BASEBALL FROM THE PITCHING-HAND
8) Arrival at "The Third Moment of Greatest Leverage" is your trigger to initiate "Follow-Through" to the release-point of the baseball from the pitching-Hand.
Understand that on initiating "Follow-Through" you will (absolutely should) yet be persistently, explosively contracting most of the muscles referenced above.
Although "Follow-Through" does involves the pitching-side Latissimus Dorsi muscle and the pitching-side Serratus Anterior muscle, at "The Third Moment of Greatest Leverage", initiate "Follow-Through" by focusing your attention on explosively contracting your pitching-side Pectoral muscles.
Moreover, explosively contract your pitching-side Pectoral muscles in a manner so as simultaneously to pull the Humerus (upper Arm) of your pitching-Arm in the direction of your Head and in the direction of the catcher.
NOTE: When explosively contracting your pitching-side Pectoral muscles be thinking/visualizing (in your brain, with your mind) delivering the Humerus (the upper Arm) of your pitching-Arm up and over in the direction of the catcher.
So doing will cause your brain to engage the Deltoid muscles of your pitching-Shoulder and the upper aspect of the Trapezius muscle on the pitching-side of your body to elevate (to move in the direction of the pitching-side of your Head) the Humerus of your pitching-Arm toward the vertical plane.
Although the Pectoral muscles are adductors, for which cause they cannot elevate the Humerus of your pitching-Arm, simultaneously attempting also to focus on your pitching-side Deltoid muscles and the upper aspect of your pitching-side Trapezius muscle for that purpose during execution of a pitching-delivery is distracting and, therefore, detrimental.
Therefore, and again, think/visualize up and over when explosively contracting your pitching-side Pectoral muscles. Your brain is an amazing organ. By thinking/visualizing, it will engage the correct muscles (your pitching-side Deltoids and the upper aspect of your pitching-side Trapezius muscle) to accomplish the envisioned task. Do Not forget to think, to visualize up and over. If you do not think/visualize it....it will not happen.
Explosive contraction of the pitching-side Pectoral muscles is followed by explosive contraction of the Subscapularis (Internal Rotator Cuff) muscle of the pitching-Shoulder, followed by the explosive contraction of the Triceps (Extensor) muscle on the back of the upper pitching-Arm, followed by the explosive contraction of the Flexor muscles of the Forearm of the pitching-Arm.
All of the muscles mentioned in the above paragraph work together sequentially to accelerate and to deliver the Elbow of your pitching-Arm and, then, your pitching-Hand up, over and in the direction of the release-point of the baseball from your pitching-Hand, all the while that you should be visualizing delivering your pitching-Hand, first, into the glove of the catcher and, then, all the way to second base consistent with "The Second Base Rule.
9) In result of the above, "Crab walk, follow-through steps" will occur.
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