Fixing that 1B lean (as a lefty) would be my next battle to pick.
What does she look like head-on or straight from the rear?
It looks like her lower arm might be outward from her body at release?
In other words: good upper arm brush, but zero at the forearm.
Just a hunch...
Thanks corlay. You probably nailed it on the brush contact. Arm circle control has been very hard to work on with DD. Her joints are about as loose as they get. Her arm just goes all over the place. I honestly don't know how to help her control it. Many girls don't have that issue. Their arm will circle like it's in a track or like it wore a groove. Most couldn't get their arm in positions like DD if there was money on the line.
I tried getting a front clip, but it was pretty dark. I think there info to get out of it though.
Personally I think that 1st base lean is a result of her rearward tilt. I think as she rotates around her rear leg, that rear tilt becomes side tilt towards first base. I hope I'm describing that right, it looks like that when I watch the clip anyway. It's like her pelvis was already tilted back (leaning toward 2nd base) and then when it turns forward, it maintains the tilt and is now leaning toward 1st base.
In these pitches, she was doing little more two step, and she often starts taking a physical step forward (gym step?) instead of driving rearward with the drive leg. I think the step forward broke any chance of her driving properly and she reverted back to a big step as noted by knightsb DD.
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