Drills for correcting swimmers arm??

[Sftballdad1]

Curious what some have done to eliminate or reduce swimmers arm in pitchers. Daughter is 10YO....throws well but struggles with it.

Video of her pitching below....I think if it works!


10u Fastpitch pitcher - YouTube

http://youtu.be/tMeapk5iKXE

 

[MandM]

Curious what some have done to eliminate or reduce swimmers arm in pitchers. Daughter is 10YO....throws well but struggles with it.

Video of her pitching below....I think if it works!


10u Fastpitch pitcher - YouTube

10u Fastpitch pitcher 2 - YouTube

Well, I don't know how you define struggling because your DD looks pretty darn good to me- looks like she throws extremely well for 10 with solid mechanics. I will just say what others here have said, which is that a swimming arm is a not always a problem- it is when it is pulling the front shoulder out so that the pitcher does not get open, but that does not seem to be an issue for your DD so I would not dwell on it. Things you can remind her- is to try to keep the palm of her glove hand towards third, rather than towards first (for RHP) which IMO allows her arm to fly out more easily. The two arms should almost mirror each other as they come down. Anyway- I would not really consider this a big issue for her. just my 2 cents

 

[X pitcher]

Curious what some have done to eliminate or reduce swimmers arm in pitchers. Daughter is 10YO....throws well but struggles with it.

Video of her pitching below....I think if it works!


10u Fastpitch pitcher - YouTube

10u Fastpitch pitcher 2 - YouTube

She is very strong and athletic. What drop ball do you say she is throwing? I say she is throwing a roll over drop, I'd change her to the peel drop...and see some of Bill Hillhouse's pitching clinics on youtube. He does these clinics for the benefit of other pitching coaches and parents of young pitchers just starting out. He keeps it simple and easy to understand.

 

[X pitcher]

Curious what some have done to eliminate or reduce swimmers arm in pitchers. Daughter is 10YO....throws well but struggles with it.

Video of her pitching below....I think if it works!


10u Fastpitch pitcher - YouTube

10u Fastpitch pitcher 2 - YouTube

She is very strong and athletic. What drop ball do you say she is throwing? I say she is throwing a roll over drop, I'd change her to the peel drop...and see some of Bill Hillhouse's pitching clinics on youtube. He does these clinics for the benefit of other pitching coaches and parents of young pitchers just starting out. He keeps it simple and easy to understand.

 

[X pitcher]

Well, I don't know how you define struggling because your DD looks pretty darn good to me- looks like she throws extremely well for 10 with solid mechanics. I will just say what others here have said, which is that a swimming arm is a not always a problem- it is when it is pulling the front shoulder out so that the pitcher does not get open, but that does not seem to be an issue for your DD so I would not dwell on it. Things you can remind her- is to try to keep the palm of her glove hand towards third, rather than towards first (for RHP) which IMO allows her arm to fly out more easily. The two arms should almost mirror each other as they come down. Anyway- I would not really consider this a big issue for her. just my 2 cents

You can't see a rollover drop that she is throwing around her hip?

 

[X pitcher]

Well, I don't know how you define struggling because your DD looks pretty darn good to me- looks like she throws extremely well for 10 with solid mechanics. I will just say what others here have said, which is that a swimming arm is a not always a problem- it is when it is pulling the front shoulder out so that the pitcher does not get open, but that does not seem to be an issue for your DD so I would not dwell on it. Things you can remind her- is to try to keep the palm of her glove hand towards third, rather than towards first (for RHP) which IMO allows her arm to fly out more easily. The two arms should almost mirror each other as they come down. Anyway- I would not really consider this a big issue for her. just my 2 cents

You can't see a rollover drop that she is throwing around her hip?

 

[MandM]

Lacking your obvious exhaustive and valuable fastpitch experience that is currently contributing so greatly to this site, I did not see that she was throwing a rollover drop around her hip. mea culpa

Sorry sftballdad1 for my mistake- (but I still think your 10 YO looks great and would not sweat the arm swim right now, just encourage her to think about balancing the motion of her glove and pitching arms a bit more).

 

[Amy in AZ.]

Yes. I see a swim and I would encourage her not to keep using the glove side like that, due to the stress that it creates on the shoulder joint. Plus, it does nothing to help the pitch.
I would start her out with a lot of power k's and encourage her to punch the glove forward, letting the elbow come back into the rib cage.

A bigger problem than the glove swim is her forward lean. I am very impressed with her pitching. If she cleans up her posture, I think that she will be awesome.

 

[RubberBiscuit]

My advice - don't get caught up in the "swim witch-hunt". Make sure she "glove-shoves" initially toward the plate and then let it be.......

 

[Sftballdad1]

Yes. I see a swim and I would encourage her not to keep using the glove side like that, due to the stress that it creates on the shoulder joint. Plus, it does nothing to help the pitch.
I would start her out with a lot of power k's and encourage her to punch the glove forward, letting the elbow come back into the rib cage.

A bigger problem than the glove swim is her forward lean. I am very impressed with her pitching. If she cleans up her posture, I think that she will be awesome.

Thanks Amy. Yes her leaning is very gradually getting better, but you are Correct. She does lean and it needs to go... Hard to break. Been dealing with that for awhile now. Thanks for the input.