What is Liquid Pitching and how does Spades pitching lessons in Naperville implement it?

Liquid pitching isn’t something that you’ll see spoken about by it’s name, unless you’re getting pitching lessons in Naperville with Spades Pitching. However, it’s a concept the great pitchers utilize, whether they are aware of it or not. If you are going to be an elite pitcher, then you need to be able to implement liquid pitching during your outings.

Let’s face it, as a pitcher, most of the time things aren’t going to be smooth. We won’t have the feel of a certain pitch, we’ll have a rough strike zone, our defense will make mistakes, etc. You can have a perfect gameplan going into the game and in an instant, it’ll be shot. With what Spades Pitching lessons in Naperville, we teach to overcome this.

Liquid pitching allows us as pitchers, to regain control in an instant. Liquid pitching is throwing our next pitch, based off the result of the last one. So hypothetically, say we wanted to throw a fastball on the inside part of the plate for a strike but instead we throw it on the outside part of the plate. Not a problem, we simply adjust our next pitch based off that result.

Now at surface level, you might be saying, “duh.” We must consider though that hitters are adapting to us as we are pitching. We can’t always stick to the plan that we have initially built out on the hitter when we are at a 0-0 count. We could go into an at bat thinking we’d like to throw a fastball to get ahead on the outside corner, followed with a breaking ball off the outside corner and then coming back inside with a fastball to finish the hitter off. Missing down the middle or inside for a strike or missing the zone completely for a ball certainly changes the parameters of the at bat.

Spades pitching lessons in Naperville, introduces liquid pitching to take pressure off a pitcher. We no longer have to pinpoint every single pitch or be perfect to get outs. Usually when a pitcher, speaking from experience, tries to dot every pitch it usually puts us down in the count. Ask any pitcher, would you rather be 0-2 or 2-0? Pitching from behind, you must throw fastballs and the hitter is all timed up to those knowing they are coming. Liquid pitching allows us to attack the zone with full confidence and be pitching ahead more than we are behind.

The ways that we here at Spades pitching lessons in Naperville introduce liquid pitching into our athletes is by having them throw “Liquid bullpens.” Where we have them set out with a gameplan of how they will attack a hitter and then we roll with what actually happens in their performance. This encourages our pitchers that they are always in control, no matter what took place the pitch before. They are in the driver’s seat.

By building a strong initial gameplan, knowing where a hitters’ attention is and implementing liquid pitching, a pitcher can ascend to elite status.

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