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Jun 18, 2010
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Sydney Littlejohn 03/01/2015 versus ULL's Shellie Landry. Landry HR to Left.

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Same pitch from behind.

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Jan 11, 2015
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I cant do video Im clueless but there is one on LSU's site. I just didnt site her because she is just an absolute beast. Who happens to have had a great pitching instructor. What those four girls are doing at LSU, is not even right!
 

JJsqueeze

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Jul 5, 2013
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Sluggers, based on some previous posts of yours, you are a proponent of having the throwing shoulder lower than the glove shoulder at release. What do you think about Rachel's even-to slightly higher throwing shoulder action? I ask because her posture at release and follow through is eerily similar to my older DDs and we have been working lately trying to get her motion a little less "shouldery", we have been working on this really based on some stuff you have posted that I agree with.
 
Jun 18, 2012
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Notice at 7:30 and right up to, and a split second after release, her shoulders are very close to perpendicular to the ground. She just lets her arm go immediately after release, causing the shoulder to rise.

There is also a bit of the "bow-flex-bow" that Rick Pauly recently spoke to me about. Around 3:00, this pitcher gets what Pauly refers to as the first "bow." You might think of it as a very slight crunching forward of the shoulders. Then, around 11:00 to 10:00 she gets what Pauly refers to as "flex." You might think of this as shoulders arcing back a little. Then, going into release the last "bow" begins, really showing up after release (i.e., shoulders crunching together again, but even more so that the first "bow"). I think that this, together with the arm going where it wants to after release, are explaining that right shoulder action.

Oh, and Pauly did mention that the "flex" phase should not be confused with swimming (glove arm). Swimming would lead to the throwing shoulder coming forward too much, rather than staying back.

He also mentioned that the initial pointing of the glove should actually be a little to the right (RH pitcher's perspective), as part of the initial "bow." Then the glove will move somewhat leftward (RH pitcher) as she moves into the "flex" phase. Again, this is not swimming as long as the throwing shoulder stays back. Then, with the final phase (i.e., the final "bow"), the hands and arms, thus the shoulders, pinch somewhat (i.e., "bow") the energy through the core into the throwing arm.

I was extremely intrigued by this. It was like a boat-load of valuable information in the 10-15 minutes he talked about "bow-flex-bow."
 
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