Softball Pitching - A Drill to Increase Pitching Speed

Most people think of a dominant pitcher as someone who throws hard. It's much more than that.

To be dominant, a pitcher must have a winning mindset, speed, control, and deception. If one of these elements is missing, a pitcher isn't dominant.

However, speed does helps quite a bit  to be dominant. At the younger levels, a great fastball will help you get a lot of strikeouts.  At the older levels, it helps your breaking pitches move even more.

Here is one of my favorite drill to help a pitcher use her whole body to generate more speed.