Pro Point Catching

If your stance is too shallow, everything built on top of it has less to work with.

Sitting deeper isn't about looking a certain way. A deeper stance physically supports the movement you're trying to create. Too tall or too rigid, and the knee starts dipping in while the hips slide out to the side, which is the opposite of what the drill is for.

The job on a weight transfer drill is simple to say and hard to do: create momentum away from an engaged backside. That requires the hips staying underneath you while the knee drives, not drifting off to the side to make room.

And here's the part that matters most. Whatever you let happen in your setup shows up magnified on the live rep.
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Most catchers think about their glove as the thing that catches the ball. It's also part of your throw.

Watch a good one. As his lower half drives toward the target, his glove is feeding directly into his backside spring, working with the movement, not against it. He looks hinged at the hips and athletic the whole way through.

The common mistake is the opposite: the glove works out and around, and the body gets tall to accommodate it. Now the upper half is rotational, and when you come up to throw, you carry that rotation into the throw.

The knee drive sets a direct line to your target. Your glove should feed in as close to that line as possible, so the hips can travel straight there instead of fighting around a loop you created yourself.
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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

Count your steps on the double play drill. There should be three, not two: left, right, left.

Each one is doing a specific job. That first left jab step, away from an engaged backside, is simulating the knee drive you built in phase one. The right-left that follows is the transfer itself, the actual phase two concept.

So the drill isn't arbitrary footwork. It's the exact cadence of a real throw from the crouch, broken into pieces you can rehearse.

Which is why doing it with two steps instead of three isn't a small miss. If the first drill in the progression is wrong, every drill built on top of it inherits the problem.

Count the steps. Left, right, left.
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Drop Your PopTime Program Focuses:

✅Decrease pop time .10 or more
✅ Increase throwing velo 2-5 mph
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The best knee drive you will ever see is only a few inches long.

Not a big dramatic stride. Not a huge push. A few inches, boom, boom, and it's done. And because the catcher stays connected to his backside through it, everything downstream works clean.

Here's the standard: the lower half has to be directional, continuous, and powerful. Nothing outside of that. If your knee drive feels leaky or drifty, it's probably not adding power, it's just adding distance you have to recover from.

The knee drive can even happen later than you think, as long as it's precise and sharp when it does.

So here's the challenge. Can you shorten your movements and still be extremely powerful? That combination is what elite looks like.
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Drop Your PopTime Program Focuses:

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✅ Increase throwing velo 2-5 mph
✅ Build a throw that helps you get recruited and perform once you get there

Fair's fair: the research does show weighted balls can work.

A systematic review of 10 studies on weighted ball training found that 7 of the 10 reported a significant velocity increase, ranging from 2 to 11 mph. That's real. That's not nothing.

But here's the honest follow-up question the data doesn't answer on its own: what's the risk that comes with that velocity gain, and is there a way to get similar results without it?

Numbers without context are how bad training decisions get made. The gain is real. So is the next part of the story.
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Drop Your PopTime Program Focuses:

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✅ Increase throwing velo 2-5 mph
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Here's a bar worth setting for yourself before you ever touch a weighted ball.

Can you honestly say your sleep is dialed? Your diet? Your weight room training, consistently, for over a year? Have you actually put in the work and still come up short?

Most catchers asking about weighted balls haven't done any of that yet. And here's the twist: once you actually have, once all of the unglamorous stuff is genuinely locked in, you usually don't need the weighted balls anymore anyway.

Stop looking for the shortcut. Do the boring things first. They work.
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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

Here's a diagnostic anyone can run on themselves with zero equipment: count your steps.

There's a specific number of steps this footwork pattern is supposed to take. Not five. Not four. Three. If you count and you're taking more than that, you're not being efficient, you're rushing, and rushing shows up as extra, unnecessary movement.

Here's the deeper point underneath the step count: phase two isn't complicated. The transfer is just ball to hand. Getting big, adding extra movement, trying to look like you're working harder, none of that helps. The job is figuring out how to keep it simple, not how to add more to it.

Count your steps. If the number's off, so is everything built on top of it.
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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,

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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