[Exercise] Break away from practice based on feel alone! A pitching mat that visualizes ingrained deviations

On the mound, you want to throw confident fastballs and enjoy pitching exactly the way you imagine. This is a must-check for anyone enjoying “adult youth” through recreational baseball and the like.

Make footwork deviations visible! Form correction with 10 cm markers

LEADING EDGE’s “Baseball Pitching Mat” is an artificial turf mat that lets you practice repeatedly while visually checking the position of the foot you stride with during pitching. From 100 cm to 200 cm in front of the plate, lines are evenly spaced in 10 cm increments.

Because you can numerically grasp your stride when things are going well, form repeatability improves dramatically. Just by looking at your feet after throwing, you can self-check your stride length.

A center line is drawn in the middle of the mat, and on both sides are white lines spaced 43.2 cm apart, matching the official baseball rule width of home plate. It’s an item that lets you instantly see lateral landing deviations such as in-step and out-step. It also naturally helps you develop the sense of throwing to the corners while being mindful of the width of home plate.

Includes a full-fledged 3D plate. Just lay it down and turn your room into your own bullpen

At the starting position, it features a 20 mm-thick, three-dimensionally molded plate. Designed so the ball of your pivot foot can hook firmly onto the plate’s edge, it reproduces the load and powerful push-off close to the slope of a mound, even in flat-ground practice.

The mat measures about 222 cm in length and 60 cm in width, making it large enough that your foot is less likely to hang off even with a full stride. With a two-layer structure about 1.5 cm thick—high-density artificial turf with excellent cushioning on the surface and non-slip rubber on the back—it can be laid on your home floor without worry.

When you’re done, just roll it up from one end and fasten it with the included buckle belt. It packs down slim in about 30 seconds, and you can easily carry it from the living room to the garage or the car trunk by slinging it over your shoulder. You can also place a mirror in front of it and use it for indoor training to check upper-body opening and axis instability at the same time.

Realistically recreated seams of an actual ball

A tube set with a dedicated grip that lets you feel the 4-seam ridges of a real ball with your fingertips. Unlike conventional string-through-ball types, you can train with a game-like grip, firmly placing your index and middle fingers on the seams.

While checking the fingertip feel just before release, you can efficiently strengthen the inner muscles around the shoulders and elbows. The snap of the wrist and the ideal arm swing are ingrained in your body with the realistic sensation of holding a ball.

The set includes two types: a single-leg tube about 84 cm long and a double-leg tube about 123 cm long. If you attach both wrist belts to the double-leg tube, you can also do stretches to increase range of motion around the shoulder blades and warm up before pitching.

Full-body training with an 8-piece set. Door-anchor use for home training is OK

Double-leg tube, single-leg tube, 2 wrist belts, 1 ankle belt. In addition, it’s a comprehensive package that brings together 8 parts, including a protective cover, door anchor, baseball grip, and dedicated storage bag.

Using the ankle belt, you can also work on drills that train lower-body weight transfer during pitching and the stickiness of the pivot leg. It’s also useful for strengthening the pull from the top in batting and a powerful stride-in.

If you secure the included door anchor by clamping it into a home door, indoor training is possible even without pillars or fences. With a total weight of about 490 g, it’s light enough that you can gather all the parts into the dedicated bag and take them from home to your club’s field or even to an away trip.

The baseball training gear “Baseball Pitching Mat” and “Baseball Training Tube” raise the repeatability of pitching form with a mat that quantifies footwork deviations and a tube that develops in-game finger feel. Build up high-quality solo practice in your room or garage at home, and deliver your best performance on the mound.

Product name / Baseball Pitching Mat
Price / 15,800 yen
Expanded size / approx. 222 × 60 × 1.5 cm
Storage size / approx. 28 × 21 × 60 cm
Weight / 5.1 kg
Structural materials / polyethylene, TPR, EVA
Set contents / main unit, buckle belt

Product name / Baseball Training Tube
Price / 4,980 yen
Size / Tube 1 (double-leg): approx. 123 cm long, Tube 2 (single-leg): approx. 84 cm long
Weight / approx. 490 g
Structural materials / latex, polyester, PVC
Set contents / Tube 1 × 1, Tube 2 × 1, wrist belts × 2, ankle belt × 1, protective cover × 1, door anchor × 1, baseball grip (ball) × 1, storage bag × 1
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