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    Spinning the "Flip" Change-up

    What are your thoughts on creating lots of backspin on the "flip" change. More spin or less?
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    Alabama and the "Power Slap"

    Was watching the Alabama vs. Ole Miss game this weekend and power hitter Amanda Locke was at bat. With 2 strikes, she went into a "power slap" stance where she would lean forward and present her bat across the plate during the pitcher's wind-up and pull it back right before the pitch to swing...
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    Looking down during the pitch

    While Cat Osterman is a fabulous pitcher, she has her own very unique style to pitching that I would not necessarily use as the poster child for good pitching mechanics. At least three things she does which I would not emulate: a) she looks down at the ground, 2x, during her pitch (see Model...
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    Is "closing the hips" a bad thing?

    There has been lots of discussion on "staying open" when windmill pitching but if you look at other athletic movements, for example, pitching overhand, hitting a softball, swinging a driver (golf), the "closing of the hips" is important in all of these movements to generate speed and velocity...
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    Legal delivery under ASA?

    Recently played a team who's pitcher had a very unusual delivery that I had never seen before but I was wondering if you thought it was legal under ASA. Hard to explain without video but I'll do my best: Pitcher is in legal, pre-delivery set-up, hands together both feet on pitching plate. As...
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    Any difference in pitching mechanics between Women vs. Men?

    Should women and men be taught different pitchng mechanics based on their gender and body type differences? If so, what are those differences. I could be wrong, but my inclination is to try to emulate the best pitchers in the world, regardless of gender. AAU 2011 - Adam Folkard vs. Giants...
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    80% of the speed of a pitch is generated by the legs?

    On a few occasions, I have heard from experts that "80% of the speed and power of the pitch is generated by the legs" but that does not seem right to me. For example, let's say a pitcher can throw 50 mph during the "leap and drag" which incorporates the legs in the pitch. Now ask the same...
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    Softball Xcelerator - Good Device?

    Saw this pitching tool advertised and wanted to get your thoughts. Seems the device would promote a locked elbow during the arm circle? YouTube - ‪Softball Xelerator‬‏
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    What important role does the pivot foot play?

    Other than to push off of the pitchng plate, what is the real role of the pivot foot? Is it just a "rudder" for balance (Hal Skinner) or does it add to the "closing of the hips" to generate power to the pitch. You look at the elite pitchers and the pivot foot seems to be doing more than just...
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    Ever ask your player to get out on purpose?

    In recent tournament, in pool play we played under "modified drop dead" rules where after 1.30 hours if we didn't complete the last inning within regulation, the score would revert back to the previous inning. Situation: in previous inning, we are the visiting team down 7-3. In the top half of...
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    more Dallas E.

    FFS - totally agree with you that there is no sharp, late break. All I see is a high rise ball thrown inside with a lot of speed that gets the batter chasing the pitch out of the strike zone. If you get a chance, can you also post some video of elite Men's fastpitch pitchers so we can compare...
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    A little rant about umpires and opposing coaches not knowing the rules

    Yesterday, we were in the finals game of an All-Star tournament and it has become very clear to me and frustrating that a lot of umpires and coaches do not know the ASA rules. First issue, we are up to bat with runners on 1st and 3rd, opposing team's pitcher starts her wind-up, takes a step to...
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    Share your best practice drills

    Share with all of us some of your best and/or most fun practice drills: Here are a few I like to incorporate into my practices: "Last Girl Standing" - all players take turns getting one pitch to hit the ball to the grass in fair territory before the defense can make an "out" by fielding the...
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    Adjusting to inside, middle, and outside pitches?

    DD was recently working with her hitting coach and she did an interesting demonstration. She placed three softballs down on the ground near home plate. One ball was on the inside black about 6 - 8 inches in front of home plate, the second ball was placed in the center and very front of home...
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    Softball Spirit!

    Now that's some serious softball spirit. HS pitcher paints her car to look like a softball. Iowa pitcher turns heads with fastball and softball car - Prep Rally - High School Blog - Yahoo! Sports
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    D1 - Do they always leave base early?

    I was watching on TV the Iowa v. Purdue softball game this weekend and was shocked about how early the baserunners leave the base before the release of the pitched ball. For example, in the 3rd inning, the Purdue baserunner (#15) on 2B, was getting a full step or step and a half off the bag...
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    Swing plane different for fastpitch softball?

    Curious if you agree with the following statement taught by a local hitting coach: "The reason you want a fastpitch batter to hit down on the ball is that the ball is released from the hip vs. above the shoulder from an elevated mound (baseball) so the swing needs to be descending to the ball...
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    Ever have this problem using Hit-N-Stik?

    At practice this week, we set-up three hitting stations 1) Hit-N-Stik; 2) front toss; and c) pitching machine. One of my team's best hitters who had just been at the Hit-N-Stik station could not hit any balll when she came over to my front toss station. We were using different size wiffle...
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    Should pitchers be taught a bullet spin fastball?

    I had a discussion recently with some team coaches and pitching intructors, and they were advocating teaching young pitchers a bullet spin fastball. From the research I have done, many experts believe a true bullet spin fastball has the least amount of movement of any pitch and I voiced my...
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    Is it safe to teach a 9 year old a Screwball?

    Somebody posted a video of their DD pitching a screwball and was curious if this is a safe pitch to teach at this age? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQQDtwFimsw&feature=related

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