A walks through Tom House's pitching warm-up routine with dynamic drills: skips with varied arm positions, chops, arm circles, figure-8 patterns, shoulder rotations, wrist stretches, and torso twists. The focus is keeping your head level and vision steady to improve pitch targeting while engaging your whole kinetic chain.
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He's keeping his head level, trying to make sure that his vision is steady. This is the skip, second version, skip forward and back. He's doing them with just his arms up, square, running forward and then running back. Now with his arms out, so wrist twisted out, forward and then back. And then twist it in, so hands, palms facing in. Now chops, hands, the palms facing down. Again, trying to keep his head level, trying to get used to having his vision steady, which I believe is supposed to help with the location of the pitch and not losing your target. The second one with his hands facing out, now with the palms facing in. So it goes palms facing down, palms facing out, and then palms facing in. Full chops, Betsy, full chops. Okay, you can take a break and kind of shake it off.
Okay, okay.
So 8 times in a circle, right? One way, 8 times the other way. Bigger circles, right? The bigger circles.
Now figure 8 pattern.
Now figure 8, and he's— at this time you're pulling out, right? Pulling out. Now he's going to do the same thing except this time he's going to be pushing in. So push together. There should be a circle in this plane, right? 8 reps one way, 8 reps the other, and then 8 figure 8s. Okay, shake it out. Now he's going to put his, his hands together, do the angels. Turn it out, or turn it in towards you, and then over your head. So 8 of these, right down. Twist up over again.
3, 4, 5.
You're pushing together with your hands, right? Pull them back towards your body. Is it 7? 6, 7, 8. Right there. Okay, now the finger. Stretch the fingers.
Now we're gonna make your fingers kind of like a hashtag.
Hashtag.
And you're going to rock them back and forth.
Push downwards and then come up over, right? And pull them back. You're going to pull them back, right? There, like that. Okay, stretch them both. Keep yourself on balance, right?
Yeah. Both those in the wrist.
We're trying to get— engage everything in the whole kinetic chain that's used for pitching, right? Okay, now we're going to do our arm circles.
Yeah, we're going to slowly work ourselves up to 12. Uh, well, we're going to count to 12 and slowly work So small. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. And backwards. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
Is that the only time you do that? Just once?
Yeah.
Anything else?
Uh, yeah, there's backslaps. You're gonna hit like this.
So you're alternating which side's up?
Yeah. 10 of these. 10. Then the torso twist. 10 on each side.
Where we at?
9 and 10. That's everything in the stretch routine. Thank you for watching. Join me on the next video.
