My coach is making my team do homework and he said your channel would help. I play all over the field and I miss throws to the right a lot and this helped me. Thank you.
There is one more thing I’d like to emphasize on the release! I used to play travel ball for a team and my coach was a former MLB pitcher and he had taught me that every time you throw when you stretch the glove out as you are winding your arm back, as your arm comes forward to throw make sure that you tuck that glove into your body with force to create more torque with your shoulders for more velocity!
Dude this is the comment that fixed me. I was out tossin the ball with myself the other day and had the same problem ive had since before highschool ball. I had the power just threw it in the ground and if not in the ground in didnt stay in the air until the target and it strained the hell out of my arm. Tried this today and im chucking softballs at full speed with minimal stress accurately.
Justin. Thank you for all of your great videos! I am a first year Little League (7-8 y.o.) coach and these videos have helped me tremendously. The way you break each fundamental down into steps from the basic, beginning steps and progress to the end has helped me show my kids the proper way to play baseball. My hat's off to you, sir. I just wish this stuff was around when I was younger to help me be the player I wanted to be. My parents never had the $ to send me for private lessons or camp, so I never realized my full potential. I hope I can help the children in our community to realize theirs with the help of your tutorials.
As a lowly youth baseball coach I’ve been looking for a lot of help on line and have to say I really appreciate your videos. Great job and thank you for sharing these!
A huge thank you from baseball junkie mom to 3 boys. My oldest son is 8 and just pitched his 1st game last night (got the W with 4 k's in the last 2 innings) and I'm so unbelievably proud of him! He is 4'7" and 50lbs so tall/skinny guy. I'm a huge Indians fan and I can't help but picture him as the next Andrew Miller with his long skinny legs 😄. Anyhow, his Dad isn't involved much so I need all the help I can get teaching him the proper way to fire them in. God Bless!
It would be cool if you did kinda "how to keep in baseball shape" in the off season (assuming its winter/cold outside) 👍 loved the vid, i'm havin a hard time transitioning out of side-arm. Hoping to use these tips to improove my game!
Great video Coach Justin! I thoroughly enjoy your instructive videos and how much you focus on the player's natural motions and health of the player. Great work sir!
Do you think you could go over some drills for a full infielder fielding to throwing, with crow hops and follow through. I’m having trouble with the follow through. Thanks
Great video man, lately I have made that mistake where a step open instead of at my target. Doing that has caused pain on my elbow because it created a sidearm motion. My previous coaches have been all over me to throwing correctly. Hopefully this helps.
Well guys at 26 y/o I'm pretty embarrassed lol. last summer playing in a softball league I was not impressed with my ball speed and after every game it felt like someone took a ball pein hammer to my elbow. I was at work looking forward to softball this summer and was curious about what was going on. I knew it was obviously my form but I wasnt exactly sure....now I know lol. I was watxhing a composite bat review and this was in the suggested glad I found this. Thanks for putting these vids up. They help more people than u probably even realize. I even played baseball as a kid, I did alright but still had problem with elbow pain lol
Thx so much man. At my baseball practice i was totally screwing up for some reason. I kept throwing high right. I was probably not staying square like you were talking about.
Hope your elbow is good! I blew my UCL out at 21 pitching a 9 inning game in the semi playoffs. Im 30 now, never got surgery, still play, but cant really throw overhand or the elbow pops.
Well I'm really amazed today meeting with you and how how professional you are because you know what technically you are on everything sound I did not find anything a technically incorrect in what you're doing and that's amazing because usually I find two three four things that people that people do either one they're throwing a baseball or they serve they have a technical problem somewhere along there and easily
Hey coach, been watching your videos for a while now, very helpful! I do have a bit of a question though: I'm a catcher, and sometimes (usually later into the game when I'm tired) when doing my arm circle to throw down, my hand kinda comes up and hits my helmet. Any thoughts/suggestions?
Two things - First, I'd make sure that you're square to your target when you throw. Sometimes when you get tired it's easy to not totally square yourself off and have your feet open. When you don't square yourself off, it's easier for your hand to come up and hit your helmet. Next, focus on getting your arm up. I'd bet as you're getting tired you're allowing your elbow to drop causing your hand to hit your helmet. Keep your arm up high and you'll avoid that!
I know I’m late but I’ve been making some errors and I’ve seen this and hitting but I was wondering if you had a video on how to properly field a ground ball
Thanks for these tips. I’m going to use them to correct my son’s throwing motion. He has developed a bad habit of throwing entirely from his elbow and it looks unnatural. Got any other tips for that ?
I played on baseball teams for four years as a kid and never got this kind of advice. Throwing was really the only skill I had trouble with. Was always straining my arm muscles/tendons and never got the throwing speed I needed. Wish I had youtube back in the 1970s!!!
Every time I throw a baseball, it goes a certain distance then dives almost straight down like I’m throwing a slider/curve, even when I grip it like you show at 0:45. I’ve never been able to throw super far or get any zip on my throws because of it.
Thank you so much I am moving from softball to baseball my dream is to be one of the first female players in professional baseball. I have experience with batting and fielding but i need to learn baseball pitching I practice everyday and I really hope I do well when baseball season starts up.
@Tylor Cameron Thank you!! I had that same problem when I was moving up in softball to a bigger distance If you get lots of practice it will be better another thing is too work on arm strength for speed I hope you get it solved!
Im a noob in throwing, any tips on to improve throwing the ball straight? Cus when I throw I just throw it like 30 degrees to the left instead of straight where I need to throw
Hey Justin! I play third base (60-90) and my coach has been telling me that on my throw from third to first I am doing a full windup which takes to long.Are there any tutorials to help me throw from my ear instead of taking a full windup?
Yes that's true because what happens is if you fully straighten that arm and you've got that that Palm up you you are in a weaker position and you have a possibility of getting a tennis elbow that's when the elbows going to start chipping away and I seen some guys that it does it you'll start the bone will start chipping away from your elbow joint because you're an incorrect position and what you're doing is correct you're 100% right because you don't have it almost straight but not quite and so where that pressure is if your arm is fully straight and guess where the pressure is going to go it's going to go on that elbow that's why you get tennis elbow or baseball elbow but if you have it slightly bit and do you have that Palm down then you're in then you've eliminated the possibility of injuring your arm at the pro league and that's the same as tennis exactly
Pretty good video... but I found it funny that you said "keep it natural" and then went on to break down the entire throwing motion into about a dozen steps anyway. I think the problem with teaching throwing fundamentals in this way is that kids need repetition to build a fundamentally strong motion that feels "natural." Otherwise, whatever feels natural might be a really funky, ineffective throwing motion. That's what I'm dealing with in trying to help my own kids strengthen their arms and be able to throw harder and more accurately. They've developed bad habits, and no matter how many times I demonstrated the correct form, they can't translate that into the way they throw in a game situation. They always revert to their "natural" state. So what I'm really looking for are effective drills to correct things like opening up too much, pushing the ball, or failing to use your legs to produce power.
Yeah I'm a tennis player I was just doing a comparison today to see the throwing motion in baseball is a matter of fact the same as it is in tennis the same motion I wanted to see the similarity between the throwing motion and baseball and the motion of the service in tennis and that's what we did we looked at all your component parts your kinetic chains we went through with all your grips and your weight transfers and all that and we what we found out is what I thought in the first place the mechanics are the same
Again you're you're right on the money bro because a lot of people are out there on the tennis court and they're all worried about pronation and they don't even know what pronation is but when you throw a baseball you pronate but that's where the problem comes in and let's see if you can hit on that problem of this is where the whole problem comes in with throwing that ball we were talking from the upper half up okay you got the bottom right but you missed a couple details on the bottom that are critical and now you're going into the upper half and now you're going to you start your what you're saying right now is on the money let's see if you can
Lmao all 3 years of my so far career I've had a perfect grip except for my thumb was on the side of the ball and not under it so it would always be like half an inch to the right or left. Thanks for the tips!
Great video kid. You need to throw it though. You never threw it. Throw it to a wall or any target that the kids can see. So I'm telling you what you tell your kids: THROW THE BALL! LOL! Love your style, we're subscribers now. Good job.
Good instruction verbally and demonstrating, all up to actually executing a good throw. Why don't you show yourself throwing the ball? The finished product. It would be very effective in your teaching.
Re. (150006800319101265101146). What's up? I checked this one out too. I have a question on how to accurately come up with the ball on third base, and gloving an infield grounder going towards the bag, gloving it cross my body. then trying to make a planted foot to turn and throw to 1st base without buckling my knees or twisting up my ankle. Do I make a 360 turn or choke the ball and hold it, or make a turn and hope that I don't make a wild throw.
Right when you talk in court we're talking stomach the stomach is a critical thing and tennis if you pack in 30 40 50 lb overweight it's it's hardly unlikely you're going to play a tough three setter I mean you might be able to win the first set but after that you're you're about 50% by the time you get to the second set by the third set 20% Max is left man because that core week
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My coach is making my team do homework and he said your channel would help. I play all over the field and I miss throws to the right a lot and this helped me. Thank you.
That's awesome! Glad to hear it helped! Keep working hard 👊🏼
There is one more thing I’d like to emphasize on the release! I used to play travel ball for a team and my coach was a former MLB pitcher and he had taught me that every time you throw when you stretch the glove out as you are winding your arm back, as your arm comes forward to throw make sure that you tuck that glove into your body with force to create more torque with your shoulders for more velocity!
Dude this is the comment that fixed me. I was out tossin the ball with myself the other day and had the same problem ive had since before highschool ball. I had the power just threw it in the ground and if not in the ground in didnt stay in the air until the target and it strained the hell out of my arm. Tried this today and im chucking softballs at full speed with minimal stress accurately.
Justin. Thank you for all of your great videos! I am a first year Little League (7-8 y.o.) coach and these videos have helped me tremendously. The way you break each fundamental down into steps from the basic, beginning steps and progress to the end has helped me show my kids the proper way to play baseball. My hat's off to you, sir. I just wish this stuff was around when I was younger to help me be the player I wanted to be. My parents never had the $ to send me for private lessons or camp, so I never realized my full potential. I hope I can help the children in our community to realize theirs with the help of your tutorials.
Thank you so much for the support Joe! I really appreciate it. I’m glad the videos have been helpful! 🙏🏼
As a lowly youth baseball coach I’ve been looking for a lot of help on line and have to say I really appreciate your videos. Great job and thank you for sharing these!
Good viewing angle of everything coming together at 7:40
Love these videos but i dont play baseball... Im just using this to mess with my friends with snowballs
Lol that's awesome
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOO
give this person a contract !
And o bet you smoke them every time
I just want to see how far I can throw and be able to defend myself during dogeball
Bro I like ur vids but u need to demonstrate on ur vids , like throw the ball and show ur mechanics or actually swing the bat .
Keep the lessons coming. Your coaching has helped my son. He had a long break from ball and is using your videos to help kill crush it. Thanks coach.
A huge thank you from baseball junkie mom to 3 boys. My oldest son is 8 and just pitched his 1st game last night (got the W with 4 k's in the last 2 innings) and I'm so unbelievably proud of him! He is 4'7" and 50lbs so tall/skinny guy. I'm a huge Indians fan and I can't help but picture him as the next Andrew Miller with his long skinny legs 😄. Anyhow, his Dad isn't involved much so I need all the help I can get teaching him the proper way to fire them in. God Bless!
You're welcome, Sarah! Thank you so much for watching and I'm happy to help!
Uh too specific
Thx for the videos. I know nothing about baseball and my son has started playing. You videos are a huge help to us!!
Good stuff Coach love the similarity comparison to hitting and the keeping the fingers pointed to the ground tip for throwing.
Arguably the most helpful throwing advice I’ve ever heard
It would be cool if you did kinda "how to keep in baseball shape" in the off season (assuming its winter/cold outside) 👍 loved the vid, i'm havin a hard time transitioning out of side-arm. Hoping to use these tips to improove my game!
Good idea! Thanks so much for watching!
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JJ STUDIO now, we have to improve your grammar.
Great video Coach Justin! I thoroughly enjoy your instructive videos and how much you focus on the player's natural motions and health of the player. Great work sir!
Boom! Thanks Brodie! Happy to hear that. It's always the goal to keep it natural and have fun. A player's health should be top priority
The foot going to the target thing really helped! It literally adds a quarter power
Great vid once again. That finger snap makes a difference.
Glad you enjoyed it Bill!
I just recently got to know baseball, since it isnt common in my country. I really love training pitching, so these videos are awesome in my opinion
Do you think you could go over some drills for a full infielder fielding to throwing, with crow hops and follow through. I’m having trouble with the follow through. Thanks
Yes I can. Thank you for watching!
Just learned more here than I did at my 800$ pitching lesson
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I dont understand
Chirchir 2018 I meant to say pitching
That’s tuff
Great video man, lately I have made that mistake where a step open instead of at my target. Doing that has caused pain on my elbow because it created a sidearm motion. My previous coaches have been all over me to throwing correctly. Hopefully this helps.
I hope this helps too! Keep me posted with the results!
Thank you! Next year (freshman) I am trying out for baseball and I am always going off to the right. This helped me so much thanks!
Hey thnx! Never played baseball, and this made my aim for throwing way better!
Thank you I am coming back from a shoulder injury and this helped me a lot
I've watched a lot of Your videos and use Your drills to teach My Son, and He's improved. Is there a way to send videos to You and get feedback?
So glad to hear he has improved! You can send me an email and I can try to take a quick look
Ultimate Baseball Training That would be awesome! Thank you for the response. What email address can I send it to?
These videos helped so much just from watching one Will help
Well guys at 26 y/o I'm pretty embarrassed lol. last summer playing in a softball league I was not impressed with my ball speed and after every game it felt like someone took a ball pein hammer to my elbow. I was at work looking forward to softball this summer and was curious about what was going on. I knew it was obviously my form but I wasnt exactly sure....now I know lol. I was watxhing a composite bat review and this was in the suggested glad I found this. Thanks for putting these vids up. They help more people than u probably even realize. I even played baseball as a kid, I did alright but still had problem with elbow pain lol
Thx so much man. At my baseball practice i was totally screwing up for some reason. I kept throwing high right. I was probably not staying square like you were talking about.
I recently changed my form after a few years and injured my elbow. Gonna need this video!
Hope your elbow is good! I blew my UCL out at 21 pitching a 9 inning game in the semi playoffs. Im 30 now, never got surgery, still play, but cant really throw overhand or the elbow pops.
Well I'm really amazed today meeting with you and how how professional you are because you know what technically you are on everything sound I did not find anything a technically incorrect in what you're doing and that's amazing because usually I find two three four things that people that people do either one they're throwing a baseball or they serve they have a technical problem somewhere along there and easily
You give such good tips what helping me ! Thank you best channel on yt ! 🤤💪⚾
Thank you! I appreciate that! 👊🏼
Really appreciate the way you break this down..... very helpful.
Hey coach, been watching your videos for a while now, very helpful! I do have a bit of a question though: I'm a catcher, and sometimes (usually later into the game when I'm tired) when doing my arm circle to throw down, my hand kinda comes up and hits my helmet. Any thoughts/suggestions?
Two things - First, I'd make sure that you're square to your target when you throw. Sometimes when you get tired it's easy to not totally square yourself off and have your feet open. When you don't square yourself off, it's easier for your hand to come up and hit your helmet. Next, focus on getting your arm up. I'd bet as you're getting tired you're allowing your elbow to drop causing your hand to hit your helmet. Keep your arm up high and you'll avoid that!
Yay domt newd to explain all that
I throw inconsistently and I'm starting catcher and trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong so I can throw Acurate, this helped thanks
Great video bro!!
Can you do a video on situations in the outfield?
Yes! Good idea!
Great video! Any good hitting videos you have produced?
What's amazing is that the serve in tennis and a baseball pitcher are the same all the secrets of the motion power identical
I know I’m late but I’ve been making some errors and I’ve seen this and hitting but I was wondering if you had a video on how to properly field a ground ball
Thank you , thank you, for an aging softball player I need this .
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
same here. Amazing video. Was wondering what's the best softball grip?
Really important to demonstrate proper follow through and deceleration. Very important for good arm health.
I agree 100 with everything except the 4 seam grip. 4 seam grip is a pitchers fast ball. I always thrown 2 seam and had a much harder throw.
It’s working thanks coach justen
That mic really powered through all that wind noise!
Wind sucks!
Hahahahaha
@@UltimateBaseballTraining unless your in the windmill business!
Great videos 👍👍👍
Thanks for these tips. I’m going to use them to correct my son’s throwing motion. He has developed a bad habit of throwing entirely from his elbow and it looks unnatural. Got any other tips for that ?
found any tips?
I played on baseball teams for four years as a kid and never got this kind of advice. Throwing was really the only skill I had trouble with. Was always straining my arm muscles/tendons and never got the throwing speed I needed. Wish I had youtube back in the 1970s!!!
Every time I throw a baseball, it goes a certain distance then dives almost straight down like I’m throwing a slider/curve, even when I grip it like you show at 0:45. I’ve never been able to throw super far or get any zip on my throws because of it.
you really helped me to do a lot better
Awesome Video and really helpful
I’m happy to hear that!
Thank you so much I am moving from softball to baseball my dream is to be one of the first female players in professional baseball. I have experience with batting and fielding but i need to learn baseball pitching I practice everyday and I really hope I do well when baseball season starts up.
@Tylor Cameron Thank you!! I had that same problem when I was moving up in softball to a bigger distance If you get lots of practice it will be better another thing is too work on arm strength for speed I hope you get it solved!
How's it working out?
Literally just learned more then my pitching coach has told me over 4 weeks
Can you elaborate on your release, and arm circle. My son tends to almost do some kind of a half side arm and sometimes releases too far back
great video
Thank you
Im a noob in throwing, any tips on to improve throwing the ball straight? Cus when I throw I just throw it like 30 degrees to the left instead of straight where I need to throw
It’s the way your gripping the ball or your throwing mechanics
Hey Justin! I play third base (60-90) and my coach has been telling me that on my throw from third to first I am doing a full windup which takes to long.Are there any tutorials to help me throw from my ear instead of taking a full windup?
Yes that's true because what happens is if you fully straighten that arm and you've got that that Palm up you you are in a weaker position and you have a possibility of getting a tennis elbow that's when the elbows going to start chipping away and I seen some guys that it does it you'll start the bone will start chipping away from your elbow joint because you're an incorrect position and what you're doing is correct you're 100% right because you don't have it almost straight but not quite and so where that pressure is if your arm is fully straight and guess where the pressure is going to go it's going to go on that elbow that's why you get tennis elbow or baseball elbow but if you have it slightly bit and do you have that Palm down then you're in then you've eliminated the possibility of injuring your arm at the pro league and that's the same as tennis exactly
This video was so usefull
I hurt my elbow and I’m coming back in 4 days and this helped
Thanx for info
Great video. This really gave me a lot to think about. I'm going to go over this with our 8-9 year old fall ball team. Thank you!
GRIP
GROUNDED
INLINE
GATHER/LOAD
FINGERS DOWN
FOLLOW THROUGH THROW
POINTED TARGETING
Great job.
Thanks Grady!
Pretty good video... but I found it funny that you said "keep it natural" and then went on to break down the entire throwing motion into about a dozen steps anyway. I think the problem with teaching throwing fundamentals in this way is that kids need repetition to build a fundamentally strong motion that feels "natural." Otherwise, whatever feels natural might be a really funky, ineffective throwing motion. That's what I'm dealing with in trying to help my own kids strengthen their arms and be able to throw harder and more accurately. They've developed bad habits, and no matter how many times I demonstrated the correct form, they can't translate that into the way they throw in a game situation. They always revert to their "natural" state. So what I'm really looking for are effective drills to correct things like opening up too much, pushing the ball, or failing to use your legs to produce power.
Justin always has the quality leather swag!
What drills do you recommend to help my 9 year old actually take a stride?! He is developing a habit of falling backwards and not taking a big step.
Good video bro really good now i know what to do for throwing drills and all of that really great bye
Thanks man!
Keep it up really think u da best coach man and u should acually be a coach i really mean it
Ty i just started base ball and myfirst ever base ball game is this thursday
Great video!!!
Thanks man!
Good stuff
Yeah I'm a tennis player I was just doing a comparison today to see the throwing motion in baseball is a matter of fact the same as it is in tennis the same motion I wanted to see the similarity between the throwing motion and baseball and the motion of the service in tennis and that's what we did we looked at all your component parts your kinetic chains we went through with all your grips and your weight transfers and all that and we what we found out is what I thought in the first place the mechanics are the same
so good to see that video
Again you're you're right on the money bro because a lot of people are out there on the tennis court and they're all worried about pronation and they don't even know what pronation is but when you throw a baseball you pronate but that's where the problem comes in and let's see if you can hit on that problem of this is where the whole problem comes in with throwing that ball we were talking from the upper half up okay you got the bottom right but you missed a couple details on the bottom that are critical and now you're going into the upper half and now you're going to you start your what you're saying right now is on the money let's see if you can
Thanks an great video
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching!
Well done...
Beginning ex’s to warmup and protect elbow and rotator cuff injuries
Can you explain pronation in a throw? Thanks
This really helped me a lot man thanks
I'm glad to hear that Bubba! You're welcome.
Can you make a video of how to teach a kid who has never thrown a baseball how to throw? That would be very helpful!
I learned so much
Lmao all 3 years of my so far career I've had a perfect grip except for my thumb was on the side of the ball and not under it so it would always be like half an inch to the right or left. Thanks for the tips!
You're welcome! Glad you were able to spot that and fix it!
Excellent video! If you're not throwing the ball like this then you're doing it wrong.
reallyy got me to learn how to throw harder
Great video kid. You need to throw it though. You never threw it. Throw it to a wall or any target that the kids can see. So I'm telling you what you tell your kids: THROW THE BALL! LOL! Love your style, we're subscribers now. Good job.
Love it
Hey there 👋! I want to know If I should throw 100 or50 a day
Hey coach! Glove to chest? Or something different?
Thanks it helpt my son
Good instruction verbally and demonstrating, all up to actually executing a good throw. Why don't you show yourself throwing the ball? The finished product. It would be very effective in your teaching.
Re. (150006800319101265101146). What's up? I checked this one out too. I have a question on how to accurately come up with the ball on third base, and gloving an infield grounder going towards the bag, gloving it cross my body. then trying to make a planted foot to turn and throw to 1st base without buckling my knees or twisting up my ankle. Do I make a 360 turn or choke the ball and hold it, or make a turn and hope that I don't make a wild throw.
Outfield need more love please
i need to work on just moving my body when i throw im throwing all arm
1:38 and then break the tv.
Should you throw a tennis ball with a four seam grip?
Just tried out for baseball and my throws were completely off, hopefully this will help
I love your vids
Thanks Miles! 👊🏼
Is the throw supposed to change with distance like 10 feet away and then 90
The motion of the arm i mean
Rest yes the tennis grip on your service that's the key if you don't have the right grip professional tennis is out of the question
awesomE
Right when you talk in court we're talking stomach the stomach is a critical thing and tennis if you pack in 30 40 50 lb overweight it's it's hardly unlikely you're going to play a tough three setter I mean you might be able to win the first set but after that you're you're about 50% by the time you get to the second set by the third set 20% Max is left man because that core week