What are These Pitcher Parents Smoking??

[Softball scholar]

Last fall at a PGf college exposure tournament, we were playing an 14U elite midwest team. This team had a girl that was consistently cruising between 63-64. I clocked her on ten pitches and none were below 63. We didnt get a hit against her. I saw two Big 10 coaches who were seriously talking to her after the game. The college coaches really didnt pay much attention to 14u, well except this girl.

 

[MNDad]

I just recorded DD at 69 mph!

*It was traveling over her head in the opposite direcrtion, but it was still 69.

 

[JJS]

10 years ago when my daughter was 10U, we were playing a very good team with a very good pitcher, in fact that team went on to win both the NSA and USSSA state championships that year. At the time their pictcher was amazing. I gunned her multiple times at several tournaments ( we played them five times that summer) with a factory calibrated juggs gun at 54 mph. I followed her career and by the time she finished high school she was topping out at 54 mph. So you never know. She never gained a single mile per hour after 10U.

She actually did throw harder/faster. She was just throwing from a further distance. She would not have been clocked at 54 from 43' when she was 10

 

[Rocketech1]

She actually did throw harder/faster. She was just throwing from a further distance. She would not have been clocked at 54 from 43' when she was 10

Incorrect. The radar gun measures the fastest reading recorded throughout the length of the pitch which is always the speed recorded as soon as the pitcher releases the ball. It doesn't matter if she is pitching from 10 feet or 43 feet the speed recorded will be the same.

If you are using a device like the glove radar or RevFire to measure speed, the length the pitch travels is important to getting the correct speed recording.

 

[JJsqueeze]

She actually did throw harder/faster. She was just throwing from a further distance. She would not have been clocked at 54 from 43' when she was 10

OUCH....you might want to rethink this post boss.

 

[RetiredCoach]

Incorrect. The radar gun measures the fastest reading recorded throughout the length of the pitch which is always the speed recorded as soon as the pitcher releases the ball. It doesn't matter if she is pitching from 10 feet or 43 feet the speed recorded will be the same.

If you are using a device like the glove radar or RevFire to measure speed, the length the pitch travels is important to getting the correct speed recording.

If you are using glove radar or RevFire then, I believe, you will be recording average speed.

 

[onkyo]

She actually did throw harder/faster. She was just throwing from a further distance. She would not have been clocked at 54 from 43' when she was 10

Is your DD a pitcher?

 

[Ken Krause]

If you are using glove radar or RevFire then, I believe, you will be recording average speed.

Not sure about the RevFire, but with the Glove Radar the reading is taken closer to the receiver. It doesn't have enough power to get the ball out of the hand. It picks it up in-flight, so by the time it "sees" the ball the ball has already lost a little velocity. At least that was true when I was using one - I looked it up on their site.

Of course, you can overcome that by using Radar Grampa technique.

 

[Rocketech1]

If you are using glove radar or RevFire then, I believe, you will be recording average speed.

The glove radar uses "dopplar radar" and only measures the speed the last 3 or 4 feet of the pitch. For every 7 feet of distance you need to add 1mph to the reading to accurately reflect the peak velocity of the pitch.

The RevFire device attempts to calculate the peak velocity of the pitch as determined by the correct distance. For example, it has two settings: 40 feet and 43 feet. The catcher needs to be 3 feet behind home plate. It's + or - 2 mph of the peak velocity reading of the radar gun.

Both of the readings for the devices above are influenced by the distance the ball travels. Conversely, radar guns will record the fastest speed, regardless of the distance traveled.

Hope that helps?

 

[Greenmonsters]

The glove radar uses "dopplar radar" and only measures the speed the last 3 or 4 feet of the pitch. For every 7 feet of distance you need to add 1mph to the reading to accurately reflect the peak velocity of the pitch.

The RevFire device attempts to calculate the peak velocity of the pitch as determined by the correct distance. For example, it has two settings: 40 feet and 43 feet. The catcher needs to be 3 feet behind home plate. It's + or - 2 mph of the peak velocity reading of the radar gun.

Both of the readings for the devices above are influenced by the distance the ball travels. Conversely, radar guns will record the fastest speed, regardless of the distance traveled.

Hope that helps?

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