Thread: Weighted Balls?

You can get more details from Jaeger a lot of which you can find on youtube but briefly you warm up to throw rather than throwing to warm up. Then start easy and close. Slowly stretch out the distance as you throw. Listen to your arm. It should feel good. When you have reached the max distance you can throw with an arc, begin to shorten up the distance attempting to keep the same feel, speed and mechanics you used to throw your max distance as you get closer and closer to your partner.

This protocol can be used for either over hand throwing or windmill.

Thank you....much appreciated.

What are your (or anyone else's) thoughts on close up speed drills into a net?

Please describe these net speed drills.

Sounds horrific to me, to be honest, for all the reasons you mention. Long toss or pitching into net with a radar for immediate objective feedback makes sense but that drill makes zero sense to me from a motor learning perpective.

Not speaking to Evans but baseball and softball professionals with huge resumes hold many directly conflicting opinions so we can't take one person's belief at face value. If they all agreed, that would be a different thing.

And yeah I'm aware I could present these ideas better. I'm working on it.

We use the weighted balls (over and under) the way Sluggers mentioned. Basically the SLINGSHOT motion into a net with radar feedback. She warms up COMPLETELY! Then we get in the open position and she throws the heavy ball using the slingshot motion 10 reps. Then we move to the light ball for 10 reps. Then to the regulation ball which she throws as many times as she can UNTIL her velocity falls below her most recent baseline speed.

Keith