Hey. This is my first post here. I've enjoyed reading a lot of your posts already!
My 10 yr old daughter has recently started pitching and has a very good pitching coach from what I can tell. When she goes to her weekly lesson and when she's with me in the yard she's throwing with nice speed. The pitching coach is very excited about her speed. Her accuracy is still sporadic and from time to time she will throw pitches to me that she knows would hit a batter. Our league is pretty new still and there are a lot of little girls who have never played before. When she pitches against these teams she throws at about 30 - 50% normal speed. In order to do this she's not really doing what she's been practicing. I want her to pitch in games to get used to throwing to live batters but I don't know if this can be detrimental to her progress.
Should I just let her do what she's comfortable with when she's pitching in games and keep working with her at full speed at home/lessons with the idea in mind that as she gets more comfortable with her accuracy she'll start going harder?
Thanks in advance!
My 10 yr old daughter has recently started pitching and has a very good pitching coach from what I can tell. When she goes to her weekly lesson and when she's with me in the yard she's throwing with nice speed. The pitching coach is very excited about her speed. Her accuracy is still sporadic and from time to time she will throw pitches to me that she knows would hit a batter. Our league is pretty new still and there are a lot of little girls who have never played before. When she pitches against these teams she throws at about 30 - 50% normal speed. In order to do this she's not really doing what she's been practicing. I want her to pitch in games to get used to throwing to live batters but I don't know if this can be detrimental to her progress.
Should I just let her do what she's comfortable with when she's pitching in games and keep working with her at full speed at home/lessons with the idea in mind that as she gets more comfortable with her accuracy she'll start going harder?
Thanks in advance!