How to Feel the "Hinge" | Pitching Drills 

So glad you have these video. Most coaches have no idea how to coach this (arguably) most important part of your pitching motion.

This is gonna be huge for me thank you! Always have struggled with my lower half especially the hinge

Great stuff, it’s crazy because I was literally just talking about how I need to find drills to help me with the hinge

Great teaching to understand that progressive steps instill a mental understanding of the required output. Too many times it’s “get into your back leg” or “ride your momentum”. All correct statements, but a great athlete either does it naturally or wants to know how to do it. This teaches the how really well. Awesome stuff.

thanks for explaining this difficult concept in such a simplistic manner. Great job!

grateful for the content ! definitely will give these three a try and really exaggerate keeping stacked over pelvis

This is good stuff. Picked up some useful cues from your videos. Love every one!

By far the best detailed instruction I have found. Keep it up!

I bought a VPX band. Hopefully it helps me with some of this stuff.

Every time I get away from the hinge pattern and lose feel for it, I come back to this video. Absolute life saver, and a definite anchor drill for me

Thanks Ben! Great drill.

Your videos are incredible to say the least. So much information and so well put together and explain. Well done

Again, making it make sense… thanks!!!

You can use the wall to brace your back leg. In order to glide that front leg you have to brace it somehow which in this case would be in the front hip and front quad.

Thank you very much for the video. Great information/drills on hip hinge!

I'm new here. Actually only 13. This is wizardry truly. Thanks so much. Off-season drill 100 percent.

Great video

When do you begin to unload the hip? Just before landing? Just after?

Great stuff Ben!

Thank you!!!

How much do you think utilizing the hinge will increase velo coming from someone who is very quad dominant. I feel like my upper half mechanics are decent, and I am hitting the weight room hard and throwing plyos to try and build my velocity, and can long toss probably close to 90 yards but I just got my pulldown with a 5oz tested a couple days ago and I am still only at about 80 mph. It's pretty discouraging but I think the hinge could be a big game changer for me. I have been trying to hinge for a long time now and I still have yet to get it down. Hopefully these progressions can help me nail it and get me over this plateau. Thanks for the video guys

Gold!!

So do you push ''push'' off the mound at all or not?

Where can I get those bands?

Thanks for good information! I would like to know how to release the tension of lower half. Is there good drill for releasing tension instead of just extending back leg?

Even the legendary Tom House uses the herschiser drill. Not saying that makes it perfect not all drills work for everyone but it proves that it must have some benefit.

would the vpx belts work too?

Where should I feel the hinge. When I do this I feel it in my groin to hip flexor. Is that good or bad?

So basically the goal is to have 50-50 weight distribution with the hinge? I feel like im too quad dominant and too tall, havent gained velo because i havent gotten my posterior chain involved

Does the hinge pattern change depending upon whether a pitcher is hip IR or ER dominant ?

how do you keep your weight back while also going into the hinge?

Awesome

Do you have the ability to do your own demonstrations? Just curious.

Excelent

How early in the delivery should the hinge begin ?

Do feel the hinge while your pitching or does it happens so fast you can’t really feel it.

I refer to it as "the sit"

when u mean by tension in the back leg, you mean o should be feeling like my back leg is tense from feeling "loaded"

Most of the time being able to throw hard is in your blood you can do all the mechanics and stuff but what really makes mlb players throw hard is the fast muscle fibers, the are able to move their arm at different speed faster than others, now weight and how big you are can have an effect its only by a little. That’s why you can see sometimes guys that are 6’8 only throw 90-93 and guys like yorodono Ventura , walker buehler and many other guys that are small throwing at a range of 96-100

90% off mlb pitcherc sitt in the stride

If you want to slide easy on turf put a paper plate under the front foot.

was this video sped up? lol.

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