In my area, travel teams never hold tryouts. Most coaches run local leagues or coach at schools, they all pull from there by invite. This has made me want to create a developmental travel team where I can offer tryouts and take some of the girls that never get a chance.
As I mulled this over, I hit a brick wall, pitching. I wanted to attract the kids with heart, but less natural talent that doesn't get them invited to the local teams, but without a decent pitcher, this can be so humiliating for them on the field.
It started me thinking again about underhand pitching. In baseball, you can pull a kid from the outfield (at 10-12u) and at least throw a lot of hittable balls. In softball, you can't get a strike out of 20 pitches if the new kid tries to throw hard at all.
Today, experts are starting to say our kids are too specialized and need to play more sports and have more free play time. How can you have that and develop a fastpitch pitcher?
Because of all I listed above, I want to hear opinions about changing fastpitch pitching to overhand. Could it work? How would it affect the game? Do you like or hate that idea?
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As I mulled this over, I hit a brick wall, pitching. I wanted to attract the kids with heart, but less natural talent that doesn't get them invited to the local teams, but without a decent pitcher, this can be so humiliating for them on the field.
It started me thinking again about underhand pitching. In baseball, you can pull a kid from the outfield (at 10-12u) and at least throw a lot of hittable balls. In softball, you can't get a strike out of 20 pitches if the new kid tries to throw hard at all.
Today, experts are starting to say our kids are too specialized and need to play more sports and have more free play time. How can you have that and develop a fastpitch pitcher?
Because of all I listed above, I want to hear opinions about changing fastpitch pitching to overhand. Could it work? How would it affect the game? Do you like or hate that idea?
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