Welcome to Velocity RX with Dr. Kevin J McGovern! Today, we’re breaking down the fundamentals of a pitcher’s secret weapon – the proper baseball grip. A solid grip is the foundation for control, spin, and overall pitch effectiveness.
Hey everybody Dr Kevin McGovern here from velocity RX now as you heard in my story I do things in velocity RX that worked for me to take the stress off my arm and my elbow so that I was allowed to pitch with a completely torn only collateral ligament for 20 plus years
Still getting enjoyment out of the game so the very first thing that I messed around with was the grip and not necessarily fast ball curveball but where the ball sits in the glove one of my favorite pictures of all time Andy Pettit used to peer over the glove but
He’d have his palm in here like this so once you take that out of the glove so this is pronation this is superation Watch How I shrug pronation superation body really needs to be in superation right so here I am in pronation so what that’s doing is that’s accentuating or or promoting
Shoulder shrug which is a no no we talk about pitching so when I take the ball out of the glove now I’m in this position and you’ll see what I call alphabet soup the M the W the T I hate them all so if I just take this ball and
Just turn my hand so now the ball is facing me oh my God bear with me don’t fall off the table and now I take it out of the glove oh my God I can throw I don’t have to adjust my elbow or arm to
Throw soon as I take it out I can throw I think Dr Mike Marshall way back when talked about that throwing pies or something I’m not completely familiar with his work but at least I’m in a position in supination not pronation so that may be crazy so go halfway keep
Your thumb up and take out of the glove and you will throw with much Freer moving Parts because there’s no restriction in order to keep our arm healthy we have to move with less restriction caused by our own movements for more information please visit me at velocity rx. org thanks for listening
