Pitching is a rotational movement
Pitching is, fundamentally, a rotational movement.
Yes, there is a linear component, but a pitcher must ultimately be able to transfer that into rotation for that energy to efficiently make its way from the ground and into the ball.🔑
How does that energy work its way from the GRF on the back foot into the upper half among the most efficient throwers?
Is it a "car crash" where the back leg violently extends followed by a front leg block that linearly catapults the upper half forwards?
A careful analysis of the hardest throwers reveals that this linear view of the lower half is incomplete.
High velocity throwers are able to convert the linear energy of their forward move into a rotational uncoiling down into the ground.
If you can rotate the pelvis down into landing while still capturing the linear move, it creates a tornado of energy (originating from the center of the body) that unwinds through the pelvis ➡️ torso ➡️ shoulder ➡️ elbow ➡️ wrist ➡️ fingers and ball.🌪️
This is why the vast majority of the hardest throwers don't violently push/triple extend into landing, but instead corkscrew their pelvis (and along with it, the rear knee) down into the ground.
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