Amanda Scarborough: be your own coach.

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Feb 26, 2012
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Like the premise but good luck sifting through the BS. BTW, wasn't her teachings influenced by this forum? She could be a very influential pitching coach and role model.
 
Dec 5, 2012
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Like the premise but good luck sifting through the BS. BTW, wasn't her teachings influenced by this forum? She could be a very influential pitching coach and role model.

Good point, Amanda says to google videos of pitching, and that's awesome. However, about 75% of what you'll find is not what we teach. Too much hello elbow, forearm fire, and leap this way but throw it that way kind of bs, the kid is gonna be a confused hot mess. I'd suggest as a parent or coach of one of these googling kids, pick out a few names of elite level pitchers and have the girls limit their search to those names. At least this way you'll know what she'll be watching. FYI, if Jennie Finch is on your list, limit those videos to slo motion analys of her pitching, and NOT of her instructing at a clinic.
 
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Jan 4, 2012
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Love to see her recommendations on Strength & Conditioning. From her video's lookz like she follows a skaters' regimen.

Had a girl that did this ...Surfed YouTube ... Taught herself...she was our second. I tried to mention she was pitching Illegal.

Wouldn't listen to a word I said... totally dismissed me..... She blow my DD's season with....a IP :mad:

*thought about posting it on YouTube....for her to see LOL...didn't :(.... but posted my player that would have had the game wining HR, and got a MVP ribbon
 
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Jun 18, 2010
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My take from the video is that the pitchers have to take ownership. They need to be students of the game. Don't rely on others all the time. Granted there is a lot of misinformation, and I agree with [MENTION=6232]Coach-J[/MENTION]ames to pick one of the elite pitchers as a role model.

My DD and I were having a conversation about how boys tend to watch sports more than girls, and how when out playing they try to emulate certain players they've seen. For instance there is a young family friend that loves basket ball and he tries to mimic the moves and mannerisms of his favorite NBA player Dwyane Wade when he is out shooting hoops in his driveway. Even down to playing sports related video games, these young boys see a lot of players they may try to emulate.

My own story... When DD was younger and going to a bowling style pitching coach, I just assumed what she was being taught was correct. It wasn't until I started really watching a lot of softball that I realized that was not what I was seeing at the college level. That's how I found this forum.

Kinda all over the place with my thoughts, but bottom line, I think young softball players could benefit greatly by watching and studying more softball than they do.
 

amandascarborough

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Jan 22, 2014
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Like the premise but good luck sifting through the BS. BTW, wasn't her teachings influenced by this forum? She could be a very influential pitching coach and role model.

Hi! I wouldn't call it "influenced by this forum" I would call it growing up. Being 23 doing my first videos vs being 29, almost 30 now, you learn a lot - about yourself, about what knowledge you have learned overtime from tons of coaches and about what you ACTUALLY do. I am not perfect. I grow and learn every day. I want each of you think if you were filmed 7 years ago, would you say things EXACTLY how you say it now in present day? Probably not. We all learn, grow and change. I just happened to do it in more of a public eye than most people in the softball world, so more people get to see my mistakes and my flaws, and maybe the areas that I have matured as a person and as a coach. I would like to think that I help more people than I hurt.

Learn, grow, repeat. That's softball and that's life. It's crazy to me to think that I try to be one of the most positive role models there are out there, yet I can come to a site like this and find SOME people who are the glass half empty kind of people. I chose not to coach that way nor see the world that way. Someone started this thread in support of a video I had posted on my Facebook page, which was encouraging young girls to be independent, self thinkers, go search for knowledge on their own instead of just relying on someone to constantly tell them answers. Think about how that will later translate to their lives in High School, College and beyond that once they start their own job. How you can turn that around on me and twist it is a mindset I can't imagine.
 

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