Pitching School Class Levels
Your class level is assigned by Practice Pro. It is helpful for re-scheduling purposes. It helps you avoid rescheduling your 8-year-old player in a class with high school players, for example.
Varsity
You can execute all of the mechanics very well during competition. You know all of Practice Pro’s drills, spots, and “ways.” You know how to pitch all of the movement pitches, meaning you can explain and throw them even if they don’t work very well. Level 4 pitchers move quickly through drills games and need only mechanical corrections, not explanations on how to do the drills and pitches.
Futures
Your fundamentals are sound enough to either start or continue to learn how to pitch each of the movement pitches. When we ask you to throw a curveball, for example, you might need an explanation again of how to pitch it. It’s likely that none of your movement pitches are actually moving yet, but you can execute all the 5 fundamentals well without thinking about it. You can do the 3 core drills without explanation and have done most of the other drills before.
Junior Varsity
You can explain how to throw the slip changeup that we taught you and execute it pretty well at least 50% of the time. You know our spot numbers, what the 5 fundamentals are, and how to do a run-in. You’ve taken at least one Practice Pro session before. You need a refresher on the 3 core drills and you still need to learn all of the other drills.
New Recruits
You are new to Practice Pro or new to pitching. You are working on learning the 5 fundamentals and getting better at coordination. The Practice Pro “way” is new to you and you haven’t learned our 3 core drills yet. If you are in 2nd-4th grade you might take this level more than once.
