10u pitching offseason amount?

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Aug 1, 2019
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My daughter is a first year pitcher she just started rec ball about 7 months ago didn't start pitching in rec. But after the season she wanted to give it a try all on her own I was happy to help she picked it up very quick. Then she wanted to keep playing and we tried out for a travel team and she maid the team. She is the number 2 pitcher and got about a game or 2 in a tournament. She really wants to improve trying to find out what is too much practice or not enough don't want to burn her out but she is really ancy about it and loves it. Again only been playing about 7 month's so still learning.
 
Jul 14, 2018
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That first year of rec is a great time, and a great time to discover a love of pitching. I think the simple answer is that she should be "pitching" every day that you can manage it. I put pitching in quotes because she's just getting started, and the most important thing is for her to get comfortable with the motion. She almost certainly isn't generating enough power to hurt herself by overdoing it.

Keep it fun, go and and play catch underhand as often as you can. Start working on some of the drills that are in the I/R in the Classroom thread. Find out if your new travel team has a pitching coach that they can recommend. Group lessons are fine when you just get started. If you're in a part of the country where the weather will keep you indoors in the coming months, invest in a Bownet and set it up in the basement or garage, encourage her to throw a few buckets of balls into the net whenever she has 20 minutes to kill.
 
Jul 16, 2018
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Im just jumping in on the thread before people jump in and tell you she has to do it everyday or she'll never make it anywhere with no care that she's only 10

The forums have great insight in them utilize those, ask questions. Work with coaches.

Have fun and let her take the wheels !
 
Oct 4, 2018
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Im just jumping in on the thread before people jump in and tell you she has to do it everyday or she'll never make it anywhere with no care that she's only 10

The forums have great insight in them utilize those, ask questions. Work with coaches.

Have fun and let her take the wheels !

How much she pitches (assuming she has proper teaching and fundamentals) will directly correlate with success and progress.

My 9 year old started lessons and went from P4 to P1 in 6 months entirely due to working hard and often. All 4 girls had lessons together at the same frequency and the same teacher. It's the hard work between lessons that will make her good. It's just simple life lesson stuff. If you want it and work towards it, you can make it happen. If you don't want it as much, that's perfectly fine. Let her guide the journey and you help her make it happen. Get a bucket, get a glove, show her you'll invest time as she does. It's fun and very rewarding.

Pitching daily seems excessive to me, but 4-5 days per week, 80 pitches per session is about what you'll hear many P1s put in - a lesson counts towards that number, as do some team practices. We almost always take the day before and the day after a tournament off.
 
Jul 14, 2018
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Great info yeah she recently started with a pitching coach about 4 times now. We pitch about. 2or3 times a week weather permitting and at our indoor practice just was wondering if we are overdoing it.
That sounds just about right. As others have said, your daughter should be the one initiating at this point. There will be plenty of times where she has to go and throw even if she's not feeling it if she continues along the pitching path.

One more important point about the time you spend catching her on a bucket -- don't let her get frustrated. It's too early in the game to try and battle through an issue she's having. She doesn't yet have the experience or muscle control take make adjustments on the fly. If you go out to the yard, and she can't manage to throw a ball anywhere near your glove, it's time to stop and go get ice cream.
 
Aug 1, 2019
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Ok great insight I'm new to softball I played baseball but different mechanics. She is very willing at 10 should any lifting of weights become involved or is that something after they hit growth spurt. She tops out at 40 now not that I'm working on speed definitely working on good mechanics speed will come with time.
 
Feb 25, 2018
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Also, keep in mind that while doing drills to help learn the mechanics is very important,
there is a relationship between her physical capabilities at this point and what she can do mechanics-wise. The harsh reality is that there isn't any magic drill that can overcome her current physical capabilities.

It's a journey that takes time and you can't make time pass faster.

Enjoy!
 

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