Nunya, your question is here.

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"What drills can be done to improve my daughter's frontside resistance, especially torso and shoulder? She is almost 10 yo. Thanks"

thanks for sharing. Good luck !

I use a variety of different drills, changing it up a bit sometimes. Front side resistance seems to be one of those
"light bulb" moments that takes awhile for some kids to "get".

Easiest drills are release drills done with feet together, when the feet are together it helps them line up the shoulders and hips and work on maintaining that line through the release. --Use this drill with arm circles as well. Have them stand at 45 degrees in these drills.

Holding out a stick or light bat or even just their glove up throughout the release drills is another way.
Stand at 45 degrees hold out a stick/bat toward target and release with ball arm, do not move the stick/bat during the drill--it remains facing the target. Or just hold out glove arm toward target.

Stepping backwards after releasing, one or two steps.

Getting very close to a wall/fence/net/tarp--almost stride length away. Pitch into it and they must stay back or they'll hit the wall.

One drill I use a small bucket turned upside down. I have the student stride onto the bucket--either from a K position or a step pitch. They'll stride up to the bucket placing their stride foot on the edge of the bucket toe up, heel down, then release the ball.
If they fall forward, they know their weight was forward at release, if they maintain most of the weight on the back leg they'll stay balanced through the release.

Striding up on one leg/fall back--this one is a little more difficult. Have the pitcher step into a pitch and after the stride leg touches down lift back leg into air--bend knee like the figure 4. Have pitcher focus on being upright and balanced through the release then push slightly on the stride leg to fall backwards and let the back leg come back down.

Basically the usual reason why a pitcher struggles here is that they don't trust that the release alone is going to provide them with enough power to get the job done. They feel by arming and muscling the ball they'll get the power they need, so you'll need constant focus on the whip mechanics so they can build their confidence there.

Thanks for the detailed answer. You are right. She tries to muscle the ball with her shoulder at times. She has been practicing with taking a step back after the pitch and this has helped.