Becoming a True Champion: Achieving Athletic Excellence from the Inside Out by Kirk Mango

Author:Kirk Mango [Mango, Kirk]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781442214071
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2012-05-16T04:00:00+00:00

the movement of his legs and arms as he starts his motion and strides forward,

how his body feels as his hips and shoulders turn and accelerate into the pitch,

where his elbow is in relation to his shoulder,

how relaxed his arm is as he starts it moving,

the lightness of his grip on the ball along with how his fingers lie across the seams, and

the sensation he gets as the ball snaps off his hand and heads toward home plate.

Eventually the pitcher will get to the point where he is able to execute this pitch so consistently that he can add it to his repertoire of pitches. During the game, when the catcher calls for this pitch, the pitcher should draw upon the kinesthetic and proprioceptive signals he learned in practice—especially the few specific signals that truly make this pitch work for him. He should relax and use these signals to emulate the same motion he achieved in training. As his curve continues to improve, so will the strength of these signals—and he will be able to know exactly what his body is doing. In due time, the pitch will become repeatable without the pitcher even having to think about it. The pitcher will know long before his curve ever crosses the plate whether it was good or not, just by how it feels. The pitch has been so well trained that he feels as if he could throw it in his sleep.

It is possible that you may have experienced something like this with skills you are already doing very well. Think about it for a moment. Have you ever performed a skill in a game or competition and known, without a doubt, that it was going to be “good” just by how your body movements felt as you executed that skill? If so, you have some idea of what we have been discussing. If not, putting forth strong effort to work on your skill set (all of your skills) in the manner in which I have described, along with following the guidelines I detail in Section II, will certainly make that possible.

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