Denny Tincher Pitching Instruction

Does anyone have personal experience with Denny Tincher as a pitching instructor? I am looking for some insight, thoughts etc on the method that he teaches. Positives, negatives etc?

Haven't been to Denny but our PC is a Fincher Fluid Dynamics instructor. I think she's great. Very open mechanics, IR instruction. No crazy wrist snaps. The style is very fluid with an emphasis on leg and hip drive and minimize forced movements of the upper body which lead to injury.

My DD is 13 and has taken most of her lessons over the past 3 years from Denny and instructors that he has trained/inspired. Using his approach has made my DD a true leap & drag pitcher with a long loose arm. No wrist snaps. No hello elbow. No injuries. All good stuff.

My one issue...not enough arm whip. She's pushing the ball through. None of the previous instructors (including Denny) ever noticed this or made an issue of it. From reading this board, reading the I/R threads, and working with a new instructor, we are addressing it right now. I feel like arm whip and I/R are consistent with the mechanics she learned from Tincher's style...but it would have been nice if it had been emphasized from the beginning.

qsort said:

My one issue...not enough arm whip. She's pushing the ball through. None of the previous instructors (including Denny) ever noticed this or made an issue of it.

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I struggle with this and rely on my camera--especially when kids are throwing at or near full speed and to a target. For me it's critical to take and check a quick video every so often to make sure that everything that looks good during warm up is happening at full speed.

Ken B said:

I struggle with this and rely on my camera--especially when kids are throwing at or near full speed and to a target. For me it's critical to take and check a quick video every so often to make sure that everything that looks good during warm up is happening at full speed.

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That's what I had to do to really see it...film it and watch using Coach's Eye. My DD's other coaches definitely filmed her at various points, but they were always looking at other things...important things...but not arm whip. It was not a point of emphasis for those instructors.

The Tincher instructors promote the upper body being as loose as possible. The whole point of all that is to create whip. While they don't use the term "arm whip", its definitely an objective.

My DD goes to one of Denny's instructors in Atlanta and she has seen Denny on several occasions when he has visited Atlanta. We have been very happy with the results!

Feel free to PM me if you have any specific questions.

Denny works with 2 of my dds 3 or 4 times a year. He's great.

I agree with everything Sluggers has to say here: http://www.discussfastpitch.com/announcements/20091-first-lesson-denny-tincher-yesterday-2.html

As for IR, I'd say Denny teaches/advocates it, but he doesn't explain it nearly as well as boardmember (in the IR stickies) and he doesn't use the term "IR". I'd make the same comment about drive mechanics--Angela Tincher's grainy youtube pitches against Team USA would make me think javasource had taught her if I didn't know better.

I'm not aware of anything unique about "fluid dynamics"--but Denny has spent thousands of hours looking at pitchers and thinking about how to make them better. He has produced immediate significant improvement in my dds with a single observation/fix several times.

I'd love for several folks on this board to work with my dds but I'm unwilling to take a plane or stay in a hotel to make it happen.