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What to expect when you get to college?
Most of the conversation on this site and others like it seems to be about the recruiting process for pre-HS to HS age girls but there doesn't seem to be much discussion about what these girls lives are like once they get to college and are playing ball and attending classes full time. My...- Dusty
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- Forum: Playing College Softball
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IR for Dummies
How about an IR thread for the rest of us? One where humor is welcome but words such as "humerous" or "medial" or any other words that give me a headache or I need a medical dictionary to understand are outlawed. As someone who kinda, sorta thinks he gets IR but probably doesn't, isn't IR...- Dusty
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Another rollover drop convert
I'm not the convert but apparently dd has. Her pc was a mens FP player who teaches the peel but between dd's high school season and the pc's summer schedule with his travel team we haven't seen him in months. Dd was struggling to get any movement on her peel so her teammate showed her how she...- Dusty
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Keeping it Simple
My 12u dd is going through the slump of her life, can't seem to hit a lick lately. I think part of this is due to the fact that this is the first travel team she's been on where she's been the #1 pitcher and while she's developed nicely in that regard the extra time in the circle and with her...- Dusty
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- Forum: Softball Hitting Practical
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Winter workouts: Start now or in January?
My youngest dd's 12u team just finished their fall season and overall the team exeeded expectations, we were competetive in all our tournaments and won the last one. Now that the season's over there are some parents agitating to get in the gym immediately and begin our winter workout program...- Dusty
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sore back
14 yo dd has started complaining about back soreness recently. She describes it as a tightness in her lower back which sounds like the same kind of back tightness I routinely live with but nobody expects me to pitch in a tourney next weekend. She's been on good teams the last two years with...- Dusty
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Ever cheated on your dd's pitching coach?
I've been taking my dd's to the same pitching coach for over three years now and both my girls and I have been happy with him. At the same time I've been thinking lately that a second set of professional eyes might pick up on something different that their current coach isn't seeing so when I...- Dusty
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funny bone
I was wondering if any other pitchers have gone through this and know what causes it. My 12yo dd occasionally gets a tingly sension in her elbow after throwing a pitch as though she tweaked her funny bone. She says it doesn't hurt and once the momentary tingling sensation goes away she's able...- Dusty
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Teaching pitchers under 21 YOA breaking pitches
*sigh* ok, I'll try this again... This isn't a "how do I teach my 10 and 12 yo dd's to throw breaking pitches?" thread. It is a "how (technique) do you teach young (anything under 21) pitchers to throw breaking pitches?" As far as the family doctor's advice, I'd give a lot more credibility to...- Dusty
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breaking pitches for young pitchers
I'll leave "young pitchers" fairly vague in definition although my dd's are 10 and 12. The younger one is strictly a fastball/changeup pitcher and the older one has a drop and her pitching coach is just starting to teach her the riseball. I have some biases about how to teach my kids to throw...- Dusty
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Ice & other care & maintenance issues
My 12u dd is a pitcher who's brand spanking new to travel. She wasn't promised a spot in the top of the rotation going in but I've noticed at this early stage she's getting most of the work in practices and scrimmages. My guess at this point is that she'll likely be the #2 pitcher going into...- Dusty
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Ever felt kinda embarrassed winning a tourney?
My team won it's season ending 10u rec tourney this weekend. Were in a pretty small rec league so we combine with couple of other leagues to play our season ending tourney. We will play these other rec league teams during our regular season but not as much as our own teams. So we get to the...- Dusty
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Travel vs playing w/friends
My 11yo dd has played her entire fp life with a core group of kids in our local rec league. The year before her first year in 10u she worked her butt off to learn to pitch and became a solid pitcher in her first year and a dominant (for our rec league) pitcher the following year when I got a...- Dusty
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Mule Kick
Hi, I coach a 10u rec team with a couple of first time pitchers. Knowing how tough it is on rookie pitchers I began working with them last fall and through the winter in our garage. I've got one girl who is really progressing nicely but she does the old mule kick with her pivot foot out...- Dusty
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