Pourciau of Top Velocity and we're gonna talk about pitching accuracy today

talk about how guys who are struggling with accuracy can possibly get better

with it your philosophy on it what they could do to work on it so to me like

accuracy is theirs there's two ways we define where the accuracy it's some

people call control/command accuracy precision so basically control

or accuracy is III can get it into the zone I'm just somewhere in the zone

precision command is I can get it in the zone in the bottom right corner so

ideally we want to have command right so here's the focus to do that we have to

be first consistent with our mechanics if I'm consistent with my mechanics then

I can predict where my ball is going to be at release right if I'm not

consistent with it then I can't predict where my ball is gonna be released then

it's gonna be hard for me to predict where I'm gonna locate the pitch or be

as precise of where I'm gonna hit the pit the target every time so once we

have consistency which means you've done it enough like you've put in enough reps

where it's become muscle memory and it's like you don't have to think about it

just happens and you know where you're gonna be every time you can be

consistent with bad mechanics you can be consistent with good mechanics so

accuracy and precision is affected by mechanics but it's not effective on

mechanics if you're just really good at consistently doing these bad mechanics

you probably can locate pretty well right but ideally if you understand your

mechanics and and you get consistent you then can do two things you can not only

predict where you're gonna be every time but if you're not there you know how to

make the change to get there and that's the difference to me between someone

trying to be accurate with bad mechanics to good mechanics is the bad mechanics

if that day for some reason they're not consistent they're struggling you know

they got the yips they're struggling to hone it in and fix the problem so that's

where the mechanics become very important so it's outside the

consistency here's the mechanical components that help us stay accurate or

precise and that is linear energy the more linear energy I create specifically

in my trunk to where I want to go it's more easy that I can make

corrections and adjustments because I'm gonna be more unlikely locating more in

a more precise area right so but if I'm really rotational and I'm spinning off

its I might think about just the angular aspects of it I'm gonna be you know I

could release here you know I cannot release over here I'm trying to find a

point where my arm crosses the zone as opposed to when I go linear I'm already

in the zone moving towards the zone it just comes down to a point of the timing

where I miss in that direction which more likely it's gonna be in the area it

comes down to missing up up and down so typically when guys are rotational

they're there mrs. are left to right typically when guys are more linear

their misses are up and down but better chance they they're more still more

accurate going forward so here's the thing if I keep missing arm side arm

side arm side and I know I'm pulling I'm rotational that means I'm dragging my

arms so my adjustment needs to be get more linear power with separation and

carry more trunk forward now I'm not armed side now I'm in the middle of the

plate as long as my energy is going that way now it's a did I miss up then my

trunk finished up or did I miss in the dirt maybe I transferred my trunk or now

I'm making those adjustments to the up or down so if I keep missing up I'm

gonna try to get more power and carry my trunk more into the target and then I'll

miss in the zone and so the point is like if I'm two rotation I'm missing

left or right if I'm two if I get good linear I'm missing up and down that's

where I rather miss I can make better adjustments there and I'm in the zone

and at that point it comes down can I correct like I went from missing glove

side glove side glove side now I made that correction to get more linear now

I'm hitting the middle of the target but now I want to shift over to the inside

part of the plate so now I'm going to carry maybe I'm gonna stride a little

bit in that direction I'm gonna carry my energy a little bit more towards that

side now I'm gonna get consistent there and my confidence there and now that's

where I'm looking so that's how I would do it if you're using a good

biomechanical understanding to be becoming accurate or precise very nice

two things I want to add to that one I did an old video

long time ago about I measured off being offline with the land foot I was off

like three or four interests and then I took a piece of string and went down to

the plate and that three or four inches turned into over a foot right over here

so something very small here can make a big difference over there in your

direction so a direction is huge second thing I like to talk about when it comes

to pitching accuracy or command is visualization just kind of having the

confidence conviction but also seeing it before it happens you know I used to see

like a laser being almost you know I kept my eyes open but I'd see that laser

beam hit the catcher's target mitt where I wanted to throw that ball and that

just helped me execute on the pitch a little bit better but I think it makes a

good point I think there is more than one way to do this you know I give you

away another coach to give you away I've had debates with coaches that it isn't

even biomechanical it's just a mindset like you're saying and and and at the

end of the day I understand all that but I what it comes down to there's many

different things that are affecting your accuracy or precision and ultimately I

believe you got to get good at understanding all them if you're really

gonna be good at it let's talk about real quick the guys who say that it

doesn't matter how hard you throw it's all about accuracy what do you have to

say about that I mean zack greinke did that in a minor league a are in a spring

training game he went out and threw like 82 82 and located his pitches and got

hit all over the place and he wanted to prove that velocity is important I think

that was a great very good lesson and I took typically land on that side of yeah

I understand when guys want to do the debate boy if you're throwing 100 and

you can't find the zone how are you gonna be good I get that but and but if

you're 80 82 in in big league ball and you're and you're painting and putting

the ball wherever you want how are you gonna fool someone because at the end of

the day what is velocity velocity is the amount of time they have to see what

you're doing it's the amount of time they have to see what strategies are you

using against them and when you cut that time off with velocity by giving them

like you know like they say like 100 minor festivals like 0.2 tenths of a

second you're I barely even has time to adjust to see where it is at that point

so you're never gonna win the velocity argument do we need it do

we don't because it's such a key piece to creating deception and to fooling the

hitter because you're giving them less time to react not only that but it's

something that is very measurable so people use it unfortunately whether with

whether you like it or not we use it in the baseball world to see oh this guy's

throwing 90 miles an hour okay he could play at our school that's like a get in

the door you know marker that's it but to me why does that because it levels

the playing field because if you're looking at a kid a Scouts looking at a

kid playing you know a little bit ec high school and dealing and then he's

got a kid to an average in the biggest High School in the country how does he

know the caliber the level of these two pitchers that he needs measurables you

know he more medals and than velocity but velocity is a key measurable to

understand well look at this kid he's dominating with an 82 mile an hour

fastball on this kids just getting by with a 90 probably because the level of

play is off and that gives them an understanding maybe that kid is not as

good as he looks because he's at a smaller level in a with a lower speed so

I guess the the best answer is the best players do both

you got you got to be able to do both do it all like where did where does that

ever go wrong you got to do it all what do you think makes a professional right

a highly skilled person who can do it all right absolutely

Brent and I shot a video where we talked about four tips to instantly increase

your pitching velocity so if you're someone who does have the accuracy in

command and you're looking to increase that velocity definitely check that out

because we talked about four big things that that kind of graph your program in

a nutshell and if you follow these big ideas and you watch that video and you

implement the stuff you're gonna see some huge results so all you got to do

is click the first link down in the description they'll take you to a page

answer your first name and your email will shoot you that video over right

away and watch it and check it out let us know what you think because we know

it's gonna help so thank you for watching guys and I will see you in the

next video thanks Brian yeah thanks but this video right here we're going to

talk about pitching velocity leaks where guys are leaking their velocity and

we're gonna make this a little bit fun we're gonna have a competition I'm gonna

give you one leak he's gonna give you a one leak we haven't talked about this we

don't even know what we're gonna talk about we're just gonna

please stop Yulin right now but in all seriousness this is gonna be some good

stuff because