[O.B.Left]

Aye O.B., that’s a great example.

When kids throw a ball, the boys at a young age taught their pivot to comply with their hands. Hand Control Pivot. They taught their pivots to support and power their harms and comply with the path of their hands. Girls, on the other hand, throw like girls because they haven’t trained their pivots to power or comply. They either use a non-pivot stroke (typical girl’s baseball overhand toss) or if they use a pivot, then the ball fly’s off in an unintended/unpredictable direction. Pivot Controlled Hands means that the path of the hands will be controlled and/or distrupted by the pivot.

I don’t know how it’s done in the “North Country” but in the Lower 50 (a Banff, Canadian term), men use an active pivot when throwing a baseball. The Pivot leads the throw. The harder you want to throw, then the harder you pivot. It’s so automatic, we don’t think about it (unless you’re a Cubs pitcher, then you stop thinking about it just before a big game).



So, a great Zone 2 can only perform as well as Zone 1, but you need a great Zone 3 to train Zone 1. Is that the Chicken and the Egg? No.... Zone 2&3 are trained by using Basic Motion Drills. Zone 1 is introduced in Aquired Motion to begin training the Pivot. Total Motion drills = training at full Pressure on the pressure points in the 4,1,2,3. In basic motion, one must learn and use extensor action. Aquired motion is great for power package training. Total motion is great for acceleration training.

(the pivot keeps on pivoting and isn't overtaken until after both arms straight)

People have a habit of swinging harder or faster, using effort. But, you can’t push a car faster than you can run. Your goal is to use the Pivot in such a way that the #3 Pressure Point pressure stays the same all of the way through the ball and further. Distance is gained by putting more pressure on #4,1,2/3. More precise alignments when moving 80% to stay within yourself is the path to greater distance.

Thanks Daryl

I love your Alberta references. Banff and Jasper are a relatively unknown heaven on earth kind of places. Hope you enjoyed them.

As for hands to pivot vs pivot to hands ..................Ill be forever trying to sort them out. For now I just clear my right hip and then let my right arm kinda "Indian chief how" my way to top.

Hey now, for sure the pivot leads, but we golfers tend to over do it a bit. Dont you think. If a Sox hitter is getting killed by a Cubs pitcher does he go back to the dugout and say "what a pivot turn on that guy" or "what an arm on that guy"? If its the latter does that mean the guy didnt turn his body or pivot?

Ob