 The National Pitching Association is dedicated to the education of baseball pitchers, their parents, and their coaches, so that they can pitch more effectively, stay healthier, develop a positive mental attitude, and a greater love of the game. The NPA was formed by leading coaches, athletes, and management teams to help pitchers of all ages safely develop to their fullest potential.
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 Foundation Fitness DVD
The ultimate workout routines for developing stability, mobility, and flexibility for all athletes. Regardless of whether you're a pitcher or a position player, this DVD of exercises is a MUST have if you want to get through the season with the least risk of injury! In 30 minutes a workout or less, you can work build the endurance of your stability-mobility chain. Bottom line: this is the best $30 you'll spend on your game.  Get the DVD...
The NPA Online Pitching Mechanics Course! Brush up on pitching instruction that promotes injury free play!
This 90-120 minute online course features streamed video, pictures, and short quizzes covering Mechanics, Grips, Drills, and more! This is a great way to help your athlete perform better while reducing the risk of injury. The information contained in this course is invaluable for keeping our young athletes healthy! 
This course is completely online and available to you minutes after purchase! Over 30 min. of streaming video instruction on Mechanics, Grips, Setting up on the mound and MORE, including delivery/motion analyses of professionals! Get the Course...The Course for Your Whole Team! Got a team or organization that is interested in learning how to prevent injury on the mound? We are offering the Course in a group of 10 for $200! PARENTS, Coaches, and players...all are welcome! Email us at info@nationalpitching.com for details on how to purchase this great offer.
Coming Soon: Arm Action, Arm Path, and the Perfect Pitch In the Spring of 2008 the NPA will be releasing its newest book. This book will utilize learnings from research done with motion analysis. Through the use of the NPA Biomechanical Efficiency Model we will take on many of the myths about pitching mechanics and prove their validity using the science of motion analysis. Don't miss this unique book when it arrives.
Are these "truisms" fact or friction???
1. Get on top of the ball.
2. Pull your glove to your hip.
3. Left-hander left side of the rubber.
Learn more about this great new book from the Baseball Prospectus interview with the book's co-author Doug Thorburn.
Due out Spring 2008. Notify me when it arrives!!!
Join the NPA! Become a Member Today!
Membership has its priveledges. Being a member of the NPA means that you have access to some of the best information regarding pitching, coaching, nutrition, athlete parenting, and conditioning info possible. Not only that, but you also receive a 20% discount on many products. Become a member of the National Pitching Association and gain access to our bi-monthly online newsletter, The Pitch, and get your game on!
Click here to learn more!In this issue of The Pitch
A Review for All Seasons
The Stability / Mobility Chain
No Mental Shortcuts!
Weak Link Analysis
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 Leagues, Academies, and Teams!
Earn commissions for your organization by having your athletes obtain the best information available on throwing and pitching! Join the NPA Affiliate Program and help your athletes and your organization by promoting and selling NPA Memberships, Books, Vidoes and the new Online Pitching Mechanics Course! It's easy to implement into your current web site. To receive more information and to apply for the NPA Affiliate Program, email us at NPA Affiliate Program Info!
 Bringing the Body Back to BalanceBy NPA and Foundation Fitness Certified Trainer Adam MeinhardtDo you wake up in the morning with back pain? Have you purchased a new bed, new office chair, or a new gym membership all of which promising to alleviate pain and enhance comfort? Maybe you're looking in the wrong places for relief. Every day we put ourselves into positions that create imbalances in our muscles, connective tissues, and bones. Sitting at a desk for 40 hours a week, heavy lifting in a warehouse, and throwing batting practice to your son's 9-and-under little league team. All of these can create posture issues and muscular imbalances. We adapt to these imbalances by recruiting other muscle groups to share the load of the activity and in doing so, create weak links in the body's kinetic chain. Will buying a new piece of furniture or a gym membership that you'll use for a month fix these problems inherent in your daily activities?Foundation Fitness is a new program developed by the NPA. Incorporating movements from yoga, Pilates, and eastern martial arts, this functional workout will help you achieve parity between muscles and connective tissue while enhancing the body's natural stability, mobility, and flexibility.
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You are only as strong as your weakest link! - Do you know yours?
To know your weakest link is to know where you need to focus your training for maximum return. Knowing where the athletic package needs to be strengthened is critical if you are dedicated to performing at your highest level.
The NPA Athletic Assessment Program (AAP) can not only help you zero in on your weak links, but will help you train to remove deficiencies in your athleticism. The NPA has leveraged its partnerships to create an assessment program that will not only identify your weakest links, but will help you train to make them strengths.
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Not a pitcher? Are you a position player? Do you compete in another sport?
The NPA has an Athletic Assessment Program for baseball position players, as well as athletes of other sports. The AAP is for any athlete that wants maximum gain through knowledge of their need to improve. Throwers, strikers, runners, you name it. Baseball position players, quarterbacks, footballers, soccer players, you name it. If you compete, you should get with the Program!
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Do your Pitching Mechanics CHANGE with each type of pitch!?
Using our state-of-the-art 3D motion analysis at the NPA Performance Lab in San Diego, we are able to capture different deliveries from the same pitcher and overlay them for comparison. The white skeleton is this pitcher's FASTBALL; the gold skelton is his CHANGE-UP. See any differences? Which view shows more inconsistencies? What pitcher wouldn't want to know that changes in his mechanics are 'telling' the batter what pitch to expect? Do you know? There's only one way to know...an NPA BioMechanical Efficiency assessment from the NPA Performance Lab as part of our Peak Performance Package.
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You have Fastball Fitness, now get the iClips!
 That's right! The long awaited Fastball Fitness iClips are here. This is just the first installment of iClips that support the information presented in the latest NPA book, Fastball Fitness. Designed to run on your iPod, PSP or your cell phone, these clips are the perfect companion at the gym, on the field or in your own home. These exercises are designed to help you build the funcitional strength required to maximize the power of your fastball.
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 NPA Drills on iPod, PSP or Cell PhoneHow would you like to have the NPA Coaching staff on the field with you to lead you in drills that will help you perfect your pitching mechanics? Now you can! The NPA is proud to introduce the NPA: iClips, pitching mechanics field drills for iPod, PSP or your cell phone! We all know that it takes 1,000 perfect reps for our brains to "program" precise movement. With Tom and the NPA staff on your video iPod or cell phone, you can have instruction for thousands of reps so that you know you are doing the drill correctly! Take the guess work out of your work out and get great instruction every time you take the field! Learn more...
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