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Throwing hard is all about how well an athlete can utilize their center of mass to best capitalize on rotating. Jared Jones is an excellent example of demonstrating the importance of creating time in such ballistic movement like throwing. At the end of the day throwing is going

Warm‑up routines are supposed to prime your body and mind. But when they become rituals you can’t live without, they turn into chains. A rain delay, a quick call to the pen or a different schedule can destroy you if you need conditions to be perfect. Great pitchers thrive in

Mobility is a buzzword in every sport. Pitchers chase more hip rotation, greater layback, deeper scap retraction and bigger separations. But achieving extreme positions means little if you can’t move powerfully within them. Stop chasing positions for their own sake; instead,

Athletes often jump from one trendy drill to the next, hoping to find a silver bullet. They buy new gadgets and copy viral exercises without asking why they’re doing them. When performance stalls, they blame the tool and move on. Drill‑hopping wastes time, confuses the nervous

Chasing mechanics or strength numbers but nothing is working? You're focused on the wrong thing.

Move like an athlete to throw like an athlete.

Let rotation drive the throw: “turn and throw” instead of “push and separate.” This aligns with how position players naturally move. Use objective feedback: Track velocity and accuracy in quick‑throw drills. Athletes will see that efficiency, not effort, produces better numbers.

To harness the “position player effect,” incorporate similar constraints into pitcher development: Time pressure drills: Take groundballs at short/catcher/outfield and throw out runners. Fielding‑throw combos: Have pitchers field ground balls, turn double plays or throw from

Movement solutions are shaped by the environment. Shortstops develop quick gathers, compact arm actions and true rotation because they have to get the ball out on time. They don’t have time to push through their lower half or overstride. They rotate, throw and move on.

Many coaches assume this “rushed” environment is harmful. They tell players to slow down when they pitch. In reality, it’s the speed of the environment that builds efficient movement patterns.

Traditional pitching development often involves breaking down mechanics into slow, segmented movements. Long pauses, detailed checklists and deliberate actions to “load the hip” or “separate the shoulders.” This breeds pitchers who move robotically and overthink each step.

Some of the cleanest deliveries in baseball come from position players who step on the mound. How do shortstops and outfielders move to the bump and look so natural? It’s not magic; it’s the environment they came from.

Cueing distal components interrupts this sequence by prioritising the transmitter over the generator.

Throwing is a manifestation of this multi‑planar motion.

Consider animals: sharks swim by undulating their spine along the sagittal plane; cheetahs sprint by flexing and extending their spine in the frontal plane.

This approach misses how human movement works. When you isolate the arm, you cut off its connection to the torso. When you force a back leg action, you often disrupt the timing of the pelvis and spine. Over‑cueing distal pieces causes compensations elsewhere

Players fixate on individual limbs, trying to move them independently of the rest of the system. The body becomes a collection of levers rather than a coordinated engine.

Pitching coaches often target body parts. “get your elbow up” “stay back on your heel” “drive your back knee.” But that’s only hurting you.

One of the most important starting to points to teaching basic rotation - the pelvis! Something we’ve really been drilling into our guys @Curry_Baseball is pelvic orientation and posture through various movement patterning drills. Always great stuff by @feole_21.

CXN Athlete @CamCraft2026 went from struggling to break 80 MPH to now touching 91 MPH and signing to a D1 school. He's been absolutely killing it with Coach @Pthorsen11 and the results are showing!