Post a video of your dd pitching. Often speed can be obtained by technique improvement. Before I would focus on strength I would make sure the technique is correct
Off Season Workout to Increase Pitching Speed.
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Post a video of your dd pitching. Often speed can be obtained by technique improvement. Before I would focus on strength I would make sure the technique is correct
JJsqueeze
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This is a great point. Especially at that age.
Probably not what you're asking for, but I like any of the following for off-season training: frisbee, soccer, basketball, swimming, biking, skating, speed and agility classes, tag, throwing a foot ball, skipping rocks, cheer camp (or any summer camp), Zumba (or whatever else is popular,) MMA, climbing trees, ninja competitions and of course, soccer.
Anything fun, active and hopefully challenging goes a long way towards building the body and the person.
Anything fun, active and hopefully challenging goes a long way towards building the body and the person.
My daughter plays soccer and volleyball and both sports have helped with pitching. Here in Sacramento, soccer is pretty popular and it's a great cardio workout. Volleyball is great for leg drive.
If you daughter is 10, my biggest suggestion is to focus on mechanics. Break up her pitch into three sets of drills: wrist snap/spin, arm-circles on one knee, and leg drive drills....all followed by full-on pitching.
If you daughter is 10, my biggest suggestion is to focus on mechanics. Break up her pitch into three sets of drills: wrist snap/spin, arm-circles on one knee, and leg drive drills....all followed by full-on pitching.
Maybe not this age group but a local rival school/pitcher started to focus on softball after her freshman year. I was talking to her school coach and he told me that when she stopped basketball she lost MPH and she is less agile so he can't use her at first anymore when she isn't pitching. The other sports do help. And this is a very dedicated to pitching girl she goes to lessons and practices several times a week in the off season.
I believe that the intent was to raise the foot up after the drag as part of the follow through. Basically ending in a "stork" position. It serves as a checkpoint to ensure the pitcher is balanced at the completion of the pitch. I use this with pitchers that tend to fall off their powerline.
