Pro Point Catching

If your hips keep drifting toward the batter's box, here's what's actually happening and the cue that fixes it.

The pattern: push the hips out toward the batter's box, then have to rotate everything back online, then rotate back across the body just to get the throw off. Push out, compensate, over-rotate back. That's three corrections happening for something that shouldn't need any.

The fix doesn't touch the knee drive, which is already working. Watch the belly button instead. It should travel on a dead straight line toward your target, second base, from start to finish. If you feel it hooking off that line at any point, that's the tell.

Everything else can be working great, the momentum, the backside connection, and this one small leak can still be costing you.
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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

Conner Smith

Great athlete. PR at 1.92.

Lives in the high 1.90s.
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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

Count it. If you can hear a beat where it pauses, even briefly, before continuing, that's the tell. One, stop, two, instead of one continuous motion.

The whole point of the knee drive is to create the momentum that pulls your back foot through. A movement that stops and restarts can't do that job, because momentum doesn't survive a pause. A smooth one doesn't have that gap, because the whole sequence happens as a single unbroken motion.

Count your own reps. If you can count two beats, you've found exactly what to work on.
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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

PARENTS OF HIGH ACADEMIC CATCHERS 👇

If your son receives well, blocks well, and has the baseball IQ... But his pop time and velocity aren’t on par with his goals, read this.

Most catchers are never taught how to throw properly.

Not specific to catchers. Not as a complete sequence.

Just random cues and drills that treat the symptoms without ever addressing the root.

I work with high academic catchers who want to:

✅ Drop their pop time by .10 or more

✅ Add 2-5 mph behind the plate

✅ Build a throw that helps them get recruited and perform once they get there

If they follow the program the way it was designed and don’t hit those benchmarks, I keep coaching them at no additional cost until they do.

Zach went from a 2.10 to a 1.91 and added 6 mph… College commit.

Jackson put up a 1.94 at a Yale Showcase.

Cruz broke a 2.0 flat for the first time and added 2-3 mph in Phase 1 only.

60 plus college commits have come through this program.

Average pop time drop .21 across the entire program.

The program is entirely remote.

The high academic kid thrives here... The one who wants to understand the why behind it all, not just what to do.

If that sounds like your son, DM me the word ‘POPTIME’ and I will ask a few quick questions to see if he is a good fit.

PopTime PR - Boston Schoch

Boston hit a 1.97 PR to conclude Phase 1 of the ‘Drop Your PopTime’ Program.

For full context, he entered the program at a 2.11 best time.

Down -.14 so far, 4/5 of the program left to go.
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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

2 to 4 extra miles an hour, without changing anything else about your throw.

Here's the mechanism. If the ball "flips up" out of the loaded position too early, before the hips have actually started to fire, you lose tension before you ever get to use it. The fix is holding that position, hold it, hold it, set it and forget it, until you're actually rotating into the front hip. That's when the ball is supposed to flip up, not before.

Hold that hinge longer, transfer it to the baseball better, and the ball comes out harder. No new drill. No added strength work. Just holding a position a fraction of a second longer than instinct wants to.

The biggest velocity gains aren't always the biggest changes.
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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

Getting hard feedback and actually using it is a skill most people never build.

This athlete got some pretty direct coaching a phase ago. He didn't get defensive about it. He didn't argue. He just went and implemented every single change that was asked of him, and came back noticeably better for it.

"I'm glad that being kind of hard on you actually works, and I'm glad you took the feedback properly, and you didn't take it personal. You bounced back, and you bounced back way stronger."

There's a second win hiding in this one too: moving to a new phase didn't mean the old skills got rusty. Everything from the previous phase stayed sharp, phase two just got built on top of it.

That's the whole skill, honestly. Coachable enough to actually use hard feedback, and disciplined enough not to let old fundamentals slide once new ones show up.
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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

If your pop time testing setup is wrong, your number is wrong, no matter how good the throw actually was.

Here's the exact setup that gets you a real, accurate time. Your feeder should be right in front of the pitcher's mound, staggered off to the side, not directly in front of you. They should come set like an actual pitcher, leg lift, deliver the pitch with real velocity, and that's when your timing starts.

Why it matters: you need real time to read the ball and time up the pitcher's movement, the same way you would in a live game. A soft, close, rushed feed doesn't let you get into any rhythm, and a time you can't get into rhythm for isn't a time you can trust.

Test it like it's real, and the number will be real.
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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 exact on-field throwing routine to run before a game, before a showcase, or any time there's a field available.

The structure: start close and controlled, in an athletic stance. As the arm loosens, gradually add distance, working all the way out to a full throw to second base. At every single distance, accuracy comes before speed. Only once a distance feels accurate and controlled does intensity get added.

This isn't a warmup you rush through. It's a sequencing tool, teaching the body to stay accurate under increasing demand instead of just getting loose.

Fifteen minutes with a partner and access to a field is all it takes
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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

"You nailed it."

Not every reel needs to be a diagnostic breakdown. Sometimes the most valuable thing to show is what it actually sounds like when a coach confirms you've got it.

The specific standard being confirmed here: a continuous movement, no choppiness, no stopped momentum in the hip through the whole throw, and a transfer that's stayed simple the whole way through. That's what "mastering a phase" actually looks like from the outside, not a new drill, just the old standard finally holding up consistently.

Progress isn't always a new number. Sometimes it's a coach with nothing left to correct.
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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