Seven Simple Baseball Pitching Success Secrets

Here's an article that recently appeared in the Internet's most popular baseball pitching newsletter! To grab your own free subscription to The Complete Pitcher's Newsletter™, click here.

Seven Simple Secrets To Pitching Success

Secret #1: There is no secret to pitching success... Pitching is hard work and requires proper technique, perseverance, and MORE HARD WORK!

Secret #2: You've got to be balanced, controlled... Concentrate on your balance point. Work on it in practice. Go through your delivery without throwing a baseball and stop at the balance point. Make sure you can hold your balance point comfortably for three- to five-seconds -- then repeat. Balance is the key to velocity and control.

Secret #3: A positive attitude and positive body language... Stay poised and poker-faced throughout your performance. Don't tip-off to the hitter what you're thinking about by giving it away in your body posture, facial expressions, or body language. Stay poised at all times like Mariano Rivera, the closer for the New York Yankees. Whether things are going well for him or not, you can't ever tell what Rivera's thinking.

Secret #4: Proper technique and mechanics with attention to detail... Continually review your technique and correct your faults with a positive and open mind.

Secret #5: Throw, pitch, long toss! Spend 10 minutes every day throwing, pitching, or long-tossing -- 5-6 days a week, 9 months out of the year. Remember, practice is very important, but the right kind of practice, like long-tossing on a line (or a close to a line as possible) with each throw - or - crow-hopping once you extend beyond 90-feet, will allow you to develop into a better pitcher.

Secret #6: Live one pitch at a time. Forget the last one and concentrate on the next one... You can't control anything but the very next pitch. Make it count!

Secret #7: Have fun, stay loose, but get the job done... Nuff' said :-)

Steven Ellis
The Complete Pitcher, Inc.
www.thecompletepitcher.com
www.thecompletepitcher.blogs.com