Backswing and center of gravity.

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Feb 3, 2010
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I got to to see the King and his Court live at our local SB complex prior to his retirement and it was mind-blowing to watch him make mincemeat out of the local hero's I'd grown up admiring...
 
Feb 17, 2014
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Orlando, FL
Many great pitchers of the past and today do not use a backswing. No men use a backswing and they never have (I have watched many, both men's FP, women in college and adult FP, and several young ladies at our state HS championships before Finch). It is not necessary. It basically makes the pitcher feel like she is getting momentum, but as you post, the velocity is the same.

Your ignorance and foolishness is once again front and center. You state that you know nothing about pitching yet you now claim an expertise on the history of mens fastpitch mechanics?
 
Jun 18, 2012
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Riseball, What it is is this.... If the male pitchers you've seen don't use a backswing, then you simply proclaim that no man uses a backswing. It's as easy as that.
 
Feb 17, 2014
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Orlando, FL
Riseball, What it is is this.... If the male pitchers you've seen don't use a backswing, then you simply proclaim that no man uses a backswing. It's as easy as that.

Interesting how someone can say that male pitchers shouldn't teach women to pitch because it is so different and then regularly reference them as examples.
 
Dec 16, 2010
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Many great pitchers of the past and today do not use a backswing. No men use a backswing and they never have (I have watched many, both men's FP, women in college and adult FP, and several young ladies at our state HS championships before Finch). It is not necessary. It basically makes the pitcher feel like she is getting momentum, but as you post, the velocity is the same.

There is absolutely no need to make males the ideal and females the other. young ladies perform much better than that sexist crap.

You can be biased like all heck and underestimating the young ladies gets you nowhere. We don't need to be "saved" by this stuff, but you can go pat yourself on the back. we ain't buying what you are selling.

You can have all the bias against females an their so called weaknesses.
 

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