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    Pitching Instruction

    You have no idea how old I am. And you attack everyone who disagrees with you. Oh I know, you get in a fight with almost everyone who does not worship you. Sorry for not knowing you were a 'star' (in men's fp which is basically non-existent) you write like someone who has no natural ability or...
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    Pitching Instruction

    I don't think the whip is hard at all. So go for it BM and make it sound like you are the savior and expert on it. I asked if you were ever a pitcher and you never answered so I guess that means NO.
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    Pitching Instruction

    Regardless, I produce confident if not yet perfect pitching students who love to pitch and that is a lot of the battle.
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    Pitching Instruction

    FYI: I disagree with Board member on this. Not a fan of dissecting to just wrist flips or 1/4 throws. Seen too many kids having overuse to the wrist and elbow for one thing. And you have to have the gravity there.
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    Pitching Instruction

    Yes on the last question, but never say early or late with the release. You can't control that. You can control making your arm circle smooth and therefore quick and lengthen your stride. She is pitching way too much and I worry it is trying to find that "release point." You can't feel it and...
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    Pitching Instruction

    To comment on the timing thing: Pitching is like skiing downhill, if you stay on the bunny slope (ie, no incline), you never get anywhere. But instructors want you to start there.It is "safer" and creates more lessons, I guess. Skip the bunny slope. Timing in a short description is landing the...
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    Pitching Instruction

    The softer 3:00 throws are a waste of time. Try it yourself and you will throw them high, too. Very hard to control (and I am always unclear where 3:00 is, to me that is behind me in the circle, so yes waste of time). Of course drills without throwing are fine, but you stated you were not...
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    Pitching Instruction

    You never stop the follow through for any reason. Its like a swing, you don't stop at contact do you and say oh gosh I found the contact point? In golf especially they tell you the ball is in the way of the club and it must keep going. It is a myth that you can feel the release point on a...
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    Pitching Instruction

    I have several issues with this approach. Too many to list.
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    Pitching Instruction

    FYI: hello elbow is a modern approach. I am 'outdated' and we did not use hello elbow. It seems to have come about with dads teaching pitching to daughters. And I can tell you in my day, no boys, brothers or probably anyone male came near our softball games, unless all our brothers did not have...
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    Pitching Instruction

    Don't like it with kids teaching alone at a paid facility, sorry. Not many of us are motivated by being bad at something, although I am. One of the reasons I like a skilled "teacher" to be doing this stuff, so that the kid has something positive to see as a result, even while not being...
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    Pitching Instruction

    Don't like the junior instructor concept. Mentoring or assisting or having a role model at times is different than running lessons. However, I don't advertise much myself (although my facility does), so that is not a concern. The basics are the most important thing. I don't mind a mentor...
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    Winning versus Having Fun

    Why would any coach say "we are playing to have fun and not to win? Winning is NOT the opposite of fun and losing is certainly NOT fun. You learn nothing if you are NOT there to have fun and win. So let's stop teaching the first line as a philosophy. I think it allows the coaches to just...
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    New Old-School Approach for Instructors

    As I re-read and old hitting instruction book from John Aquillare, a former baseball instructor who then taught hitting fastpitch, I read some really good stuff about the approach of an instructor. He said he does not change someone's style if it works for the hitter. He is also humble...
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    WCWS: Betters were moving in the box

    And heard it straight from Mendoza that those batters need to make adjustments and move around in the box. Against Ricketts, righties were moving up and in, probably got three batters on by being hit by pitch. I saw the thread here largely against it. Anyone rethinking their position or not?
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    College Super Regionals and the Peel Drop: Who has one?

    I see a big reliance on the peel drop, as far as I can tell from the limited TV angle. Who has one? Thrown hard? Who has a rollover? Thrown (slightly?) off-speed? Results, good or bad... Who has the curve change, a la Hillhouse or someone else? I'll start with the Oregon pitcher. Pretty...
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    DD gets odd Exposer.

    Kids need to do the work and contact coaches, not dads and not parental self- or otherwise promotion. The kids who don't work at this don't have the attitude to get through the grind of college anyway. Get an academic scholarship and then it won't depend on softball. You won't get most umps or...
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    Question/Plea to Coaches of Younger Teams

    I am watching my nieces go through JV and V softball in HS and also my nephew in JV baseball. It seems the JV girls have been taught (at younger ages) a limited game with the infield always in, where you never go after the lead runner. The players seem content with one play and seem to doze off...
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    Looking for input on Coach problem

    You are wrong in thinking that things are NOT being done about and that the list of states exists. This parent is going to the AD and coach. Guess you have not looked at the legal dockets/newspaper articles lately.
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    Looking for input on Coach problem

    Cyclone: It is not my crusade, but the school system's, and idiot coaches are probably everywhere. About half the states have these laws. So if there are no complaints, the practice is OK? Just like other unreported crimes against victims, such as hazing, etc. Go on forever and seen as OK by...

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