• Indoor Pitching Drills 

    These drills can be accomplished indoors and without breaking windows or damaging drywall.  The first video has three drills:
    1. Ball Pickup Drill - The purpose of this drill is to improve the pitcher's balance and establish the proper load position during the balance phase of the pitch.  Success is not falling over.  Complete three sets of five repetitions daily.
    2. Toe Taps - The purpose of this drill is to improve balance & keep the boys loaded on their back leg.  Success is not falling over.  Complete three sets of five repetitions daily.
    3. Reload Drill - The purpose of this drill is to train the proper body position during the "glide / skim the water" stride phase.  Success is maintaining the player's spine angle's perpendicular orientation to the ground (spine tilt should not be forward or back in relation to home plate).  Success is being able to recoil from "equal & opposite" position to balance position with first repositioning the player's spine angle back to perpendicular orientation.  Confusing, I know.  Watch the video.  Complete 25 repetitions daily.
    Snap the Towel - The purpose of this drill is to extend the pitcher's release point towards home plate.  Extending the pitcher's release is an indicator of a completed body movement through the windup.  Measure off where your son's initial release point completes and then provide a target (your glove or some other protective device) 6" farther towards home plate.  Have him snap your glove with the towel to reinforce the extension towards home plate.  Hold the follow-through.  Complete 15 to 25 repetitions daily.  Here's the video: