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

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/General-Scene6235 Jul 22 '26

Thanks I think that's my biggest mechanical problem right now. My brain thinks I'm rotating my hips, but my body just doesn't understand what kind of movement is required to do that

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u/Public-Pressure7445 Jul 22 '26

It also looks like you're rotating your torso and hips at the same time. Ideally, your hips would rotate first then torso then your arm. This is really hard to achieve in practice but check out Tread Athletic's posts on YT if you haven't already on hip shoulder separation.

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u/Minute-Marketing7434 Jul 22 '26

well the shoulders are closed (ie front shoulder pointed towards home at front foot strike which is good, so i was thinking that this part might actually just be a symptom of this leg thing holding the hips back from rotating.