Thanks Amy!
She does walk throughs sometimes as part of her warmups, but I've never gunned them. The HS doesn't use a gun at all, but I was given one for Christmas so I'll use it this weekend and see how she does with that. I've never gunned her overhand throw, but she throws reasonably hard, she plays shortstop when she's not pitching. That will be interesting to see what it is. I'll have her do the over and unders as well.
As far as leg drive goes, she has a lot of strength in her legs (she currently leg presses 240lbs-3 sets of 8, does deadlifts, back squats and jump lunges with I'm not sure how much weight.) But strength hasn't helped her explosiveness, if anything she's gotten less explosive as she's gotten stronger. I've done some research on developing explosiveness and looked at some plyometrics, but there seems to be some injury potential in at least some of them so we haven't tried that yet until I learn some more.
After her push off, she keeps her *RIGHT FOOT* off the ground until the catcher returns the ball to her.
The drill I would have her do is to do a walk through (she stands a few feet behind the rubber, walks forward and pitches when her right foot touches the rubber). After her push off, she keeps her *RIGHT FOOT* off the ground until the catcher returns the ball to her. It is going to feel strange to her, but she'll eventually get it.
Robin, what did you use to get those two sequences together like that? I really like that.
Robin, in my opinion, your DD is going to have to work twice as hard as the other young lady for equal results. The other girl seems to "get it" naturally.......
Yes, I agree! And DD knows it as well. Neither of us has a problem with that, it's not really work when you love it, right? Unfortunately for DD, she failed to pick the right parents for athletic genes. But she has as much passion for the game as anyone I've ever seen play it. And she'll take that as far as she can. Then she wants to coach which I think she''l be very good at because she's patient and smart, and she understands and relates to girls that it doesn't come naturally for. (she helped coach U10 rec league last year and has been put to work by her JV coach this year teaching the inexperienced girls how to hit, something she is very good at.)
Hey Hal..........Maybe you could give her a free copy of that pitching book. Which link in your signature is for the free one you were telling me about before? All the links I click seem to want $$$......
I am in Marana. Twenty minutes north of Tucson. I would welcome a visit.