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Tim Lincecum—How His Pitching Mechanics Create 95-100 MPH Fastballs

Who else would like to boost their pitching velocity 6-12 mph in days or weeks instead of years by making changes in your baseball pitching mechanics?  Or have you been misinformed that pitchers must get big and strong to improve velocity.  Not true.

Tim Lincecum, the 23 year old 5'10" 170 lb. small and skinny Giants' right-hander, regularly throws his fastball is the 95-100 mph range. Do you know how a pitcher who is considered small and skinny by today's major league standards is able to produce that kind of overpowering velocity...when pitchers six inches taller and 40-50 lbs heavier can't?

Improving Pitching Velocity Has Little To Do With Getting Stronger

It's not about a special conditioning program or getting bigger and stronger as most would like you to believe.   It's about how to develop explosive pitching mechanics.  Certainly being fit to pitch by doing explosive full body exercises is important however recent research has proven that  strength is not much of a factor for throwing a 5 oz. ball...since there are Little League pitchers at the age of ten who are able to throw 70 mph plus.  

Whether you son is just starting out in Little League baseball or is in high school or college looking for another 5-7 mph of pitching velocity, knowing how Tim Lincecum is able to accomplish this could be the most important information on pitching velocity you have ever read.

The real secret to Tim Lincecum's overpowering velocity is all stored within his pitching mechanics. It obviously has little to do with his being big and strong...as many coaches today still preach for improving velocity. It clearly is not that important.

There are six things that Tim Lincecum does in his pitching delivery that create his amazing arm speed. These are actions that any pitcher at any level can use right now to quickly improve their pitching velocity within days or weeks instead of years.

Here's how Tim Lincecum throws overpowering fastballs and how pitchers can boost velocity 6-12 mph:

• move fast from the back leg to the front leg
• use the back leg to move out very low to the ground
• get the throwing arm up very late in the delivery (use a late hand break)
• stride length of over 100% of the  pitcher's height
• brace the front leg and hip to increase upper body speed
• land in a straight line toward the plate

Tim Lincecum's pitching mechanics, because he moves fast into a long stride and stays low, forces his body to put as many muscles on stretch as quickly as possible which helps develop maximum elastic energy so that his body acts like a huge rubber band stretching to it's maximum length ready to be let go and whip the arm through.

Is your son's body explosive with a long stride so he can create a whip for an arm?  Or does he like most pitchers today move too slow and controlled?

Moving fast into a long stride is the key to pitching velocity that not one coach or pitching instructor in 100 knows about. If they knew this they would never have a pitcher waste time on long toss, weighted baseballs, weight training, or the host of endless towel drills, kneeling drills, or balance drills…that only serve to waste valuable time, slow pitchers down and turn them into mechanical robots who can't break a pain of glass.   Once a pitcher has his delivery built he does not need many drills.

I get a lot of phone calls from frustrated parents of late high school and college pitchers who have the size but still can't get their fastballs above low to maybe mid eighties..when both the parents and the pitcher himself knows he has more potential velocity. They want me to video analyze their son's mechanics…the next best thing to personal lessons. Then they discover why their sons have not been able to reach their full potential. http://www.pitching.com/product/professional-video-analysis/

I always ask these parents about their son's stride length and whether their deliveries are slow and controlled…or mechanical instead of explosive. And when is the last time their pitching mechanics were videotaped and analyzed by a competent pitching instructor. Most say never.

If you were to hire a pitching instructor or purchase a pitching instructional program, shouldn't learning how to videotape be a valuable part of that instruction? After all you cannot recognize mechanical problems with the naked eye...even former pros can't including me. http://www.pitching.com/product/explosive-pitching/

The only way to help your son improve his pitching mechanics so he is using the same techniques in his pitching delivery as Tim Lincecum does is to learn how to videotape him. If you don't learn how to do that then your son has little chance of producing velocity that is any better than plain mediocre.

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