Pitchers need patience, persistence and video analysis to truly learn what is currently happening. Just as any other kinetic motion, pitching has numerous components which can be broken down into teachable parts.
Today's pitchers learn quickly if you can provide them with reasonable (the ability to reason) information. They are drawn to the position by their intellect as well as their athleticism. The only way to do that is through video analysis.
If your child is a pitcher, the most important thing for him to know is the relationship between cause and effect that explains why some pitchers succeed, and why some fail, why some get injured, and some don't. They remember they were sometimes successful and sometimes not, but most never knew why. So, for the last 20 years or so, I have been preaching and teaching a different approach to pitching, one designed to prevent pitching injuries from occurring in the first place by teaching proper pitching mechanics.Įven in today's youth baseball there are still many well intentioned "pitching coaches" whose only qualification for the job is that they themselves pitched at some time in the past. To me, it makes a whole lot more sense to first figure out what the problem is and then come up with solutions to fix that problem. Instead of trying to identify the reasons so many young pitchers are injuring their throwing elbows and shoulders, the focus has been on the symptoms of the problem and implementing guesswork measures in that hopes that one might work. Rather, they were taught how not to pitch what some coach suspected they were doing wrong (I say, "suspected," because few coaches took the time to learn how to teach pitching). Twenty or thirty years ago, most pitchers in youth baseball were not being taught how to pitch correctly.
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