Well there's different ways to go about teaching him the fundamentals of pitching. One is to find a good instructor, which can be expensive or learn the basic fundamentals and teach him yourself. I recommend if your interested in helping your son out and also learning a lot about pitching, buy the Art of Pitching by John Bagonzi, one the great pitching coaches in the country. He also has a web site called the
pitchingprofessor.com. Take a look. Good luck

Chad,
I agree with Coach Moore. You need to spend some time with your son with a reputable pitching coach. Go to at least 3 sessions and take copious notes. The lessons alone will not help much unless you can regularly work with your son reinforcing the coaching that he is getting in his lessons. Follow-up with lessons once a month if possible. If finances are a problem maybe find one or two other boys to share the cost of small group lessons.

Chad,
Both messages are very good replies. The number one thing I have learned with starting pitchers is reinforcing their confidence and purposeful training. Another good website to visit and consider its training techniques is www.pitching.com by Dick Mills. The site has a good set of articles and videos for free and it has an advanced section at a reasonable price. Many of the pitching videos are from everyday Little League players and parents with commentary from Coach Mills. His articles are very informative and he seems to have done the right research to back up his training ideas and techniques. Good luck with your son and best success to you.
Mike

To make it simple and therefore repeatable...have him throw at a wall. It is the old school method. I was at a coaching clinic with Brent Strom of the Cardinals and he reiterated the simple technique. They can do it alone and get to field a ball each time. Accuracy is no where near as important as basic mechanics and arm strength building. Then long toss. Don't have a kid FAIL by telling him to aim the ball...just let him throw as hard as possible.

All of these are very good responses, but depending on your son's age and current skill level, there may be different answers. If he is very young and inexperienced, I would totally agree with Dirk's response above. You really wouldn't need to spend a bunch of money on a pitching coach for your son. Keep it simple for him and just give him a place to throw and play catch.

If he is an older and more experienced player, I may suggest a pitching coach if he doesn't have a very knowledgeable youth baseball coach already. I don't wan to sound too harsh, but sometimes we make things way more difficult and expensive than we have to.

After coaching high school baseball for many years, I had a professional scout come up to me and talk to me about a left handed pitcher I coached. He said it was nice to see that "Matt" had a nice natural motion. He says he sees wayyyy too many pitchers look too mechanical these days due to pitching clinics and instructors "redoing" the pitchers entire natural motion.

Keep it simple!

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hatch some game footage of NOLAN RYAN!!! give him an ol school breakdown film session...dont forget the popcorn!!

well i think you should spend more time practicing with him and make sure hes not doing it cuz u want him to do it make sure he does it for fun but deffentily make sure u spend time with him from alina peace ps hope he gets really good

Balance, Direction, Extension:
Stay balanced throughout the motion.
Make sure all weight is directed (moving) towards the plate.
Get his release point as close or extended towards home plate as possible.

I agree with Dave.old shcool film is good.practice is a bonus.I will give you some fundementals though.Accuracy,speed,Balance.