Arm Whip and Brush Interference

[JJsqueeze]

contrast the above with this instruction from one of her Ace pitchers. Notice where Cat's arm is during demonstrations of release

 

[sleepwalker]

Hillhouse mentions brushing the belly. I have not been able to find this in any of the, so called, top female pitchers. Does anyone have a clip showing it?

There is a YouTube video of Michele Smith pitching indoors in a gymnasium. The title of the video is "Michele Smith Pitching". It looks likes she is giving a pitching clinic to softball coaches going over proper underhand throwing mechanics. As she is demonstrating the proper mechanics, she pitches the ball and brushes her side with her arm. One of the people in attendance asks her if she is hitting her hand on her leg and she demonstrates how she brushes her side with her arm.

If I was more technology savvy, I would have attached the clip.

 

[JJsqueeze]

I couldn't see much from OILFs clips. I poked around a but and found this. It is clipped from a demonstration video of hers that also has some full pitches from a good angle and I see something more akin to what Cat and Sarah do than to what RLG and Torina teach.
[video=youtube_share;ydwVkyo2khQ]http://youtu.be/ydwVkyo2khQ[/video]

 

[JJsqueeze]

from the same video...put me in the "Michelle Smith uses significant interference" column...

[video=youtube_share;rG-poGL-aGs]http://youtu.be/rG-poGL-aGs[/video]

 

[JJsqueeze]

I must be lurking in the hitting forums too much. Stop me when I start posting GIFs of Miguel Cabrera using interference in his swing.

 

[Madsdad]

JJ,
unless that first clip you posted of MS was of a 100% full out pitch, it is not a good example. It would not be a true measure of what she really does. Everyone has seen Finch pitch with HE when she is giving a demo JMHO Things start to get "clouded"

 

[JJsqueeze]

JJ,
unless that first clip you posted of MS was of a 100% full out pitch, it is not a good example. It would not be a true measure of what she really does. Everyone has seen Finch pitch with HE when she is giving a demo JMHO Things start to get "clouded"

That's exactly why I posted a second clip of the full pitch.

 

[Doug Romrell]

JJ,
unless that first clip you posted of MS was of a 100% full out pitch, it is not a good example. It would not be a true measure of what she really does. Everyone has seen Finch pitch with HE when she is giving a demo JMHO Things start to get "clouded"

Of course, as we all know (or should), Finch doesn't really use HE when she pitches. With her, it's a sort of after-the-fact (after IR) follow through, as if she learned to point her elbow way back when she was very young, and now it's just muscle memory.

 

[JJsqueeze]

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As I continue my training to learn how to pitch I noticed that I have no interference in my pitching. I want to teach my little one how to get some interference like her sister so I tried to learn it myself. It definitely helped my accuracy and speed, but it also made the side/front of my rear thigh pretty sore from the times I interfered too much. I felt contact down to my wrist, sometimes into the fleshy part of my hand on the pinky side, but boy did it help my control.

I have been reluctant to try to teach this, but my experience form DD1 says that when they get some interference it helps accuracy enormously. So the question is, how to go about getting the little one to trust the brush instead of leaning to let the arm pass through freely.

 

[FiveFrameSwing]

If you are teaching this here, then I don't understand how you can avoid the interference ......