Pro Point Catching

Your lead knee is not just taking a step. It is setting the direction your entire lower half is going to travel.

When that knee drives directly at second base, your hips follow that line. The throw works linear. Everything stays through the baseball.

When that knee goes rotational, your hips rotate with it. Now you are spinning across your body trying to get back on line, and that spin is costing you time and accuracy.

Here is the simple test. Pause your throw at the moment your front foot lands. Where is your front knee pointing? If it is not close to second base, you have a rotational problem, and no amount of arm work is going to fix it. Set the line. Trust the line.
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If you're a high school catcher (or the parent of one) who wants to build a throw that helps you get recruited and perform once you get there,

DM me 'POPTIME' and we'll ask you a few questions to see if the program is a good fit for you.
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Drop Your PopTime Program Focuses:

✅Decrease pop time .10 or more
✅ Increase throwing velo 2-5 mph
✅ Build a throw that helps you get recruited and perform once you get there

Catcher A: 1.85 pop time. Accurate 40% of the time.Catcher B: 2.00 pop time. Accurate 80% of the time.

Catcher B throws out more runners. Every time. Pop time and velocity get all the attention. But as you move up in the game, the skill gap between athletes closes.

The catchers who stick around the longest are not always the fastest. They are the most consistent. Accuracy is not the sexy metric. It is the one that actually wins games.

If you are chasing a lower pop time but your throws are sailing wide half the time, you are optimizing the wrong thing.
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If you're a high school catcher (or the parent of one) who wants to build a throw that helps you get recruited and perform once you get there,

DM me 'POPTIME' and we'll ask you a few questions to see if the program is a good fit for you.
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Drop Your PopTime Program Focuses:

✅Decrease pop time .10 or more
✅ Increase throwing velo 2-5 mph
✅ Build a throw that helps you get recruited and perform once you get there

SPEND MORE TIME ON YOUR BACK SIDE!
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If you're a high school catcher (or the parent of one) who wants to build a throw that helps you get recruited and perform once you get there,
DM me 'POPTIME' and we'll ask you a few questions to see if the program is a good fit for you.
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Drop Your PopTime Program Focuses:
✅Decrease pop time .10 or more
✅ Increase throwing velo 2-5 mph
✅ Build a throw that helps you get recruited and perform once you get there

When your front side closes off, here is what happens.

Every degree you internally rotate that lead leg is the same distance your hips have to fight back to get on line.

You are not throwing through the baseball anymore. You are throwing around it. The hips peek out. The backside disconnects. All of the power that was loaded into that spring releases in the wrong direction.

This is why some catchers throw hard in warmups and weak in games. The drill rep looks fine. The live rep closes off and everything falls apart.

The fix is holding that front side. Line set. Hold it. Do not let it cave.
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If you're a high school catcher (or the parent of one) who wants to build a throw that helps you get recruited and perform once you get there,

DM me 'POPTIME' and we'll ask you a few questions to see if the program is a good fit for you.
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Drop Your PopTime Program Focuses:

✅Decrease pop time .10 or more
✅ Increase throwing velo 2-5 mph
✅ Build a throw that helps you get recruited and perform once you get there

Every catcher at the college level can receive and block.That is the baseline. It is expected. It is not what gets you recruited.

What separates the catchers who get looked at first is their ability to throw. Can you control the run game? Can you post a pop time fast enough to throw out a college level runner? Can you light up a radar gun?

The catchers who can throw AND hit are the ones recruiters come back for.

If your throw is not a weapon yet, that is the place to start.
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If you're a high school catcher (or the parent of one) who wants to build a throw that helps you get recruited and perform once you get there,

DM me 'POPTIME' and we'll ask you a few questions to see if the program is a good fit for you.
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Drop Your PopTime Program Focuses:

✅Decrease pop time .10 or more
✅ Increase throwing velo 2-5 mph
✅ Build a throw that helps you get recruited and perform once you get there

The lead leg sets the direction. That is all it does.Once it sets that line, the job is to drive your belly button straight toward your target.

That cue fixes more problems than almost anything else I give catchers. When you lead with the belly button, the hips have to work through the throw. The sequence locks in. Everything gets smoother.

Without it, you get caught. The backside holds, the hips stall, and the throw fires out of a bad position. It looks choppy because it is choppy. The fix is not mechanical in a complicated way. Point your belly button at second base and drive it there. Let the throw follow.
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If you're a high school catcher (or the parent of one) who wants to build a throw that helps you get recruited and perform once you get there,

DM me 'POPTIME' and we'll ask you a few questions to see if the program is a good fit for you.
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Drop Your PopTime Program Focuses:

✅Decrease pop time .10 or more
✅ Increase throwing velo 2-5 mph
✅ Build a throw that helps you get recruited and perform once you get there

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If you’re a high school catcher (or the parent of one) who wants to build a throw that helps you get recruited and perform once you get there, DM me ‘POPTIME’ and we’ll ask you a few questions to see if the program is a good fit for you.
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Drop Your PopTime Program Focuses:

✅ Decrease pop time .10 or more
✅ Increase throwing velo 2-5 mph
✅ Build a throw that helps you get recruited and perform once you get there

Watch the front belt loop. That is the cue I give every catcher I work with.

If that front hip stops moving at any point before the throw is finished, you are leaking time and velocity.

A great throw is continuous. The hips start working as the ball travels toward you and they never stop. That momentum is what pulls the back foot through. It does not look forced because it is not forced.

Most catchers I see have a hitch somewhere in the sequence. A pause. A reset. A moment where the body reorganizes before the arm fires. Every one of those moments costs you. Front belt loop. Continuous. That is the test.
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If you're a high school catcher (or the parent of one) who wants to build a throw that helps you get recruited and perform once you get there,

DM me 'POPTIME' and we'll ask you a few questions to see if the program is a good fit for you.
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Drop Your PopTime Program Focuses:

✅Decrease pop time .10 or more
✅ Increase throwing velo 2-5 mph
✅ Build a throw that helps you get recruited and perform once you get there