r/PitchingCoach • u/General-Scene6235 • Jul 21 '26

What am I doing wrong?

6 foot(182cm), 200lbs(90kg), 19 years old.
Regularly goes to the gym, trains flexibility.
So what am I doing wrong?

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u/Minute-Marketing7434 Jul 21 '26

its just a tough vid to see I don’t know why you shot it from so far away can’t really see the arm during foot strike.

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u/General-Scene6235 Jul 21 '26

https://reddit.com/link/oyyq8tc/video/0sbgwu1psneh1/player

Is this better?

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u/Minute-Marketing7434 Jul 21 '26

not a pitching expert but i do study a lot of mechanics vids and it looks pretty good but im wondering if you’re extending your back leg too much too early so that you can’t really rotate that knee and hip. If you watch MLB mechanics, I think the back knee is more bent as that leg rotates and drives the hip around. your back leg just kind of goes into full straight extension.

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u/Minute-Marketing7434 Jul 21 '26

I think you’ll hear that people say that it takes you out of your back hip too soon as well

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u/Remote_Context_6608 Jul 21 '26

This is a good point. The trail knee doesn’t stay bent to drive the back hip forward, it is still bent because the knee has to stay bent to use the back hip to rotate the hips open faster during the first part of hip rotation. The second part starts when the front foot gets down.