A lot of older pitchers may have heard of or seen some of their teammates performing baseball pitching drills with a towel.\u00a0If you don’t know what the purpose of the towel drill is, or how to apply it in your own practice, this is what I consider a good application of the towel drill for baseball pitchers.<\/p>\n
With towel drills for pitching, what you are looking for is proper form and proper timing – and it manifests by making contact with the glove like he shows it being done in this video clip (below) of a college pitcher performing the towel drill in pitching practice.<\/p>\n
Remember this, however, the pitching towel drill is about putting it all together with your baseball pitching mechanics to let the release point happen where it ought to.<\/p>\n
Good posture and balance, good momentum, good timing to stay closed and rotate late, etc., will get you out front and hit the pitching target with the towel correctly.<\/p>\n
The towel drill is NOT about arm extension or “snapping down.”<\/p>\n
Here’s the pitching video to see how the towel drill can be applied in practice or while working on specific elements of your own baseball pitching mechanics.<\/p>\n