Can anyone give me drills to get a young pitcher to start using her legs. She pretty much taught herself how to pitch, but she throws all arm. Any drills or tips will be great.
I may be totally off base here, and I may have missed the point, but this sounds like a drill for a pitcher that already know's how to use her legs. This would be a more advanced drill to increase the explosion off the drive foot, not a drill to teach them how to use their legs. No? In my opinion, adding resistance before the proper form is attained can cause them to develope all kinds of bad mechanics in order to natuarally oppose the resistance. I'm not speaking from a knowledge of pitching drills here, but rather a knowledge of strength traing. Before you increase weight or resistance, be sure you have proper form. Kind of reminds me of my comical college days watching guys trying to Max on a bench press, dropping the bar to their chest so hard that it bounces up 3 inches from the chest compression, then they lift their butt off the bench and wiggling back and forth, side to side, get help from the spotter and then beat their chest that they just benched 300!!My DD starting using a large bungee cord and weight belt to force her to use her legs. We do cycles - 10 pitches with the bungee, 10 without, repeat. I bought the bungee cord on Ebay, but you can also find them where speed and agility products are sold.
Can anyone give me drills to get a young pitcher to start using her legs.
The question is - How is leg use transferred into ball delivery? How would others here explain it? Just curious.