In MD the Public School MPSSAA Handbook's focus is on the coaching staff not the athlete. As is in Michigan you could have an entire HS team play as a club team but not coached by any of the HS coaching staff. The private school leagues have similar rules. The rules for camps are more...
Relating to your comment about the problems associated with the transition from the 11" to the 12" ball, we solved that by never using the smaller ball to practice with. They only used the 11" for games. This was much like using a 14 ball to develop spin and hand strength. Never had any...
Gary Leland at Fastpitch.tv has posted the next Hillhouse episode #223, Movement Pitches Part 1. There will be 2 additional episodes to finish the series from Bill's presentation at last years SoftballCon.
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Both have been...
As a follow on Gary Leland at fastpitch.tv responed that he also recorded the second session that Bill references in episodes 198 & 199. He said that they still need to be edited and won't be available as new episodes for a couple of months.
Your observations of speed are very close to what I've seen from the 12U and 16U teams that my kids teams have played against on the east coast. Best pitcher at 12u I saw was on the VA Crushers. Played them several times. Top end 54 -56 mph, with very good location, using the pocket radar. I...
I purchased mine from this site Affordable Quality Baseball, Softball, & Football Pitching Machines for our backyard batting cage that I purchased from Portable Batting Cages with L-Screen | Cages*Plus. They have three model under $1k with free shipping. I've used Jugs and this pitching...
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Here is the link to the POE for pitching from the Aussie website and based on the document you can still hide the ball. However, the key point is that you must seperate the hands prior to the front stride foot landing. This does not go against what you demonstrate in your teaching and...
Here is link for batting cage similar to what MsDinosaur was describing. you buy the net and connector kit from the site and purchase the EMT conduit from local big box store. They offer multiple sizes.
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I also read recently that she is going to be playing for the NJ Intensity Premier. I watched her on ESPN360 last fall at the ESPN rise event pitching in relief.