How to Pitch a Baseball : Full Wind Up for Baseball Pitching

Hi! My name is Mike Lumley. On behalf of Expert Village, I'm here to teach you pitching. We still want to make sure that our upper body and lower body still work together. We're going to start on the rubber. For right-hander the right side, left hander left side, is to make sure that we're slightly on an angle to start. We don’t want to start too squared up, because as we do this if we step straight back we're going to get a little bit of a....and you can see how my body's starting to work or not work right now. I have to start to swing my leg to get around my pivot. What I want to do here is start slightly on an angle and have small direct steps. You're going to in another key here, especially when we get older, is to keep our glove pointed in towards selves. As we get older, if we start to move and keep our glove open, third base coach can see our grips on our ball and can start to relay signs. We're going to keep closed here, small steps. Our glove step is going to be out, but only as far as the edge of the rubber. The farther we go out this way, the farther that we're going to create ourselves coming back the other way and cause bad balance. We're here, small step, foot in so it's squared in, up, down, and throw. Slight angle, ball starts at our chest, small step to our left, pivot in, up, down, throw. As you see if we'd done the work ahead of time that the chest still finishes out in front of our knee. We still get the tuck and we still get that backside rotation out of leg, which at times we call the inverted L. Start, small step, pivot in, up, down, throw.