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^^^^^^^ that's why I am still waiting on your book
Hey Ken, I'm sorry, but I don't have any recent video of her. The last video I took is about 2 months old. I used to record EVERY session, then sit upstairs, take notes, and go over what I saw with DD the next time she worked out. TORTURE for BOTH of us. I've since built a comfortable trust with her PC through questioning her motive behind every drill, or exercise, or comment and learned what to look for full speed during her workouts to give her feedback, real time.FrozenRope,
Do you have any current video of DD? I don't like the idea of changing a comfortable stride length to improve timing, but without seeing her, it's tough to comment.
Please tell me you're joking. I'm a firm believer that a moderate pivot foot turn actually promotes the proper throwing position of the hips and shoulders. I just disagree with your anaology. This is like comparing the aircraft carrier launch of Pete Mitchell's F-15 to to the take-off of a small cessna. I call apples to grapefruits as the comparison here. Hal, can you show me some video of Mariano Rivera leaping and dragging?Turning the pivot foot loses leg drive huh. Somebody needs to tell all the MLB pitchers about that. They put the side of their pivot foot against the front edge of the rubber, 90 degrees to the plate.
They must not have any leg drive AT ALL!
Sorry to those that love the theory that a long stride is a good stride. I disagree. Lengthening the stride will not fix problems with the initiation of the pitch. It will not fix timing issues. All it does is create a pitcher with timing problems that happens to stride farther than the girl whose parent didn't read that post.
That’s the bottom line.I see real time, the improvement it made.
^^^^^^^ that's why I am still waiting on your book
Frozen Rope and KenB
In regards to the stride length:
I'm with FrozenRope on this one. You absolutely can stride too far. You CAN NOT push off too hard though. There is a difference.
I view the stride as how far you stretch your plant foot out once you have pushed off. If you stretch your leg out as far as you can to plant "doing the splits" then this will absolutely affect your timing and balance.
I use the three inches shorter than their height as my #... not 125%. I use the measurement of the hands spread out as far as they go, and measure end of index to index. If the span is 2 inches less than height... you dont have a pitcher. I had DD step off six steps of her shoe size when in a hurry.