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I haven't found that to be the case up here. Perhaps they're just more used to throwing indoors.
No advantage to leaping
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I haven't found that to be the case up here. Perhaps they're just more used to throwing indoors.
I don't know about getting hurt, but before my DD got a pair of Ringor trainers with the pitching toe she was ruining a pair of tennis shoes every other month. Maybe the leapers are just trying to save money on shoes!!!
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Slugger, is it the cold or the sun in Texas? That's is affecting your thinking. Men pitchers leap.
I think the Pitching Shoe Company lobbied the rule. DD's been tearing up shoes forever.... They better be calling IP's on everyone.
What's the disadvantage of the step style, vs the leap n drag? The distance. This game is a game of inches, that's why we like those big tall long limb pitchers in softball/baseball. Anything, that we can do to move them closer to the plate, is an advantage. As long as it doesn't sacrifice speed or delivery.
I'm not going to make a fool of myself with a video, but I can assure you, most of us can leap farther with both feet off the ground than dragging a leg behind. The elite are the ones who have the recipe for the proper landing resistance, and have learned to break the rules to their favor.
I'm not going to make a fool of myself with a video, but I can assure you, most of us can leap farther with both feet off the ground than dragging a leg behind. The elite are the ones who have the recipe for the proper landing resistance, and have learned to break the rules to their favor.
Australia and every nation of the international softball community play under the ISF rules. Leaping and replanting is allowed. In my part of the world most female pitching instructors here still teach to drag the back foot, and most of these instructors teach HE as gospel.
Boys/men jump like crazy.
My DD who is a junior state rep pitcher jumps like crazy and this I have taught her to help getting momentum into the pitch.
The fastest womans pitcher's in Aus are throwing around 65-70mph but they a few.
The fastest men's pitchers are throwing over 85mph.
ISF rules will be the Olympic rules if softball is reintroduced.
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So the top leap and drag pitchers in the US pitch 65-70 and down under where they are leaping and replanting, the top pitchers pitch 65-70 
Most of the world class female pitchers in Australia and like I said they are few compared to in the states, actually drag their back feet. I dont believe this is because they are not taking advantage of the leaping rules but because they have all been taught to pitch in the USA.
Kaia Parnaby, justine Smethurst and Ellen Roberts are probably some of the best examples.
In 2007 the rules of pitching changed in the ISF for both male and female so many old school coaches dont teach leaping.
I know of a young lady from here who is on sholarship in the USA who had to make changes to her pitching technique to allow here to pitch for her college.
Stepping, dragging or leaping, the basic mechanics don't change but the timing of the pitch does.
Kaia Parnaby, justine Smethurst and Ellen Roberts are probably some of the best examples.
In 2007 the rules of pitching changed in the ISF for both male and female so many old school coaches dont teach leaping.
I know of a young lady from here who is on sholarship in the USA who had to make changes to her pitching technique to allow here to pitch for her college.
Stepping, dragging or leaping, the basic mechanics don't change but the timing of the pitch does.
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Ok but how much more speed are we talking? 10 MPH or .02 MPH. You are just guessing. And the term you are looking for is Ground Force Reaction (GFC) and not kinetic energy.
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