Bad glove arm habit, drills to get rid of it..help.

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Carly

Carly

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May 4, 2012
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Pitching with the glove side to a wall is great for this problem. If you can do it against a flat tight net, or a padded gym wall, that's even better because your daughter won't compromise her speed out of fear of smacking her hand and hurting herself.
 
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Djanvk

May 25, 2012
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These are all great suggestions, I will definitely check out the Hillhouse video and work with the drills suggested here. Right now she is having to use her shoulder muscles to hold that arm from swimming out to the side and is getting pain from it. I'm definitely looking forward to her trying pitching next to a wall, should be interesting.
 
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Djanvk

May 25, 2012
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Here is a video of her pitching this last weekend you can definitely see the arm swim. Please address any other issues you might see. Thanks.

Video of 14u DD pitching

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tojo

Jan 27, 2010
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When your DD pushs off the rubber, she never opens completely. As soon as she leaves the rubber, her glove arm is starting to move further away from the powerline. Have her point her glove hand towards home until her throwing arm reachs 9:00 or 3:00 o'clock approximately shoulder height.(depends on who you ask if it is 3 or 9) Your DD needs to use her legs more and drive off the rubber.
If she is seeing a PC, I would ask if he is teaching step style or leap and drag. Your DD is not opening and the right shoulder is closing early and the glove arm is drifting off to the side.
Your DD has other areas of her pitching motion that I feel need to be corrected, but I would like to know first what your PC is telling her.
 
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Djanvk

May 25, 2012
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She has another lesson tomorrow, I'll get that information. Thanks for looking at her video.

Her current PC is a new one she has only had 2 lessons so far with, we were not satisfied with the old one.

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Carly

Carly

Pitching Coach
May 4, 2012
217
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Pittsburgh
A glove swing that dramatic can cause a lot of problems (like never opening fully, as tojo suggested, among other things), so I would address that first and see if some of the other things kind of correct themselves. The other thing that stood out to me the most was her forward lean:

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That front leg should be tall and solid, not lunging, and her upper body should be behind it. The glove will help a little with this too, because if her glove remains high and pointed at the catcher longer, she won't be able to lean forward as easily. But it's not all because of the glove, and she should work on this too.
 
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NVfishing

May 18, 2009
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She has a slight lean at release. If you can get her to use some resistance on the leg she lands on and keep "tall" she will gain some more speed.
 
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