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About LinkBacksAfter the girls are taught the K drill, if that is right, why does it disappear in the pitchers form for later on? It seems all the NCAA gals either drop the glove hand to the side or have it in motion the same as the throwing hand?
tks
When does the K seem to disappear in pitchers form?
After the girls are taught the K drill, if that is right, why does it disappear in the pitchers form for later on? It seems all the NCAA gals either drop the glove hand to the side or have it in motion the same as the throwing hand?
tks
You are taught the k drill as part of many steps.If they are taught to leap and drag then they will leap with both hands and arms shoulder high or more(THE SUPERMAN DRILL)and leap with glove side leg and follow with drag of back foot on big toe to firgure 4.
so are you saying it disappears from your learning curve?
Different scenario but in baseball you do the same thing except you tuck your glove to your side after delivery , your lead hand is the glove extended, stays that way, if the NCAA girls were taught the k in the beginning, it must be just a learning curve?
Last edited by 1fingeredknuckler; 04-28-2012 at 10:49 PM.
Not a fan of the K drill, at all. Never in the pitching motion does the pitcher have their weight on their rear leg, thus the drill has no real application to pitching.
-W
Originally Posted by starsnuffer
ok
if it is only for drill purposes,, then it is non essential
however how can you get push off with not having weight on your leg?
You actually push off with both feet (although many pitchers do not), but at this point, your ball hand and glove hand are used to "throw" the body forward. Soon after, the body is weightless, the glove hand continues forward as the ball hand goes around and back, helping to open the body and turn sideways, after that, the actual part of the pitch that is practiced in a K drill follows the stride foot landing, at this point the weight is on the front leg.
I think it is important to warm up the arm, but I prefer the pitcher to stand open, arms out to both sides, and simply drop the glove and ball hand to release the ball towards the catcher as a warmup, about halfway to the rubber. It's important that they focus on simply dropping the arm, as soon as they start "forcing" the pitch, you'll see them do all kinds of things with their legs and shoulders that are very ugly, should they be allowed to continue to "pitch" this way.
-W
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