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    How TALL is your pitcher?

    5'2" (righty) and 5'1" (lefty) twins turned 13 today...haven't had a growth spur to speak of, but cruise on the low side of 50 now...hoping to get about 3-4 more inches before high school (7th grade now). They both made high school team on a pretty competitive roster, have been asked to play...
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    College softball predicted order of finish...

    It's way too early, but it wouldn't be too unusual to have a freshman come in and pitch lights out, Osorio at Bama comes to mind. But, UGA did lose a lot of experience and leadership. Forth feels about right, but 1-6 could all win it all. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro
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    More High School Politics and BS

    As a father of twins myself, I have been through many of the same battles. I like my girls HS coach personally, but...we don't always agree. Their coach doesn't see my girls as contributing as position players only as pitchers. The coach told one of mine "unless you grow 8-9 inches you'll...
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    More High School Politics and BS

    I think djcarter1966 is right, tell them to relax, try to keep bad habits at bay, and give 100% but they need know this is more a social activity and at the end of the day this is their best opportunity to get peer recognition. But, school ball decisions don't have any bearing on their softball...
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    Ending of a timed game

    Well, they are trying to move the brackets along I suppose. I mean I did witness a game where a team was down 6 runs with 2 outs and a runner on 2-2 count 10 seconds left and the coach had the runner step off the bag to start a new inning. This was in 95 degree weather with a heat index of...
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    Ending of a timed game

    I start my timer when the umpire starts his. Some of our tournaments say they won't start a new inning with less than a minute to play. But others don't. Gotta manage the clock and that is one of my main roles as the other coaches are used to high school 7 inning games. It's part of it. One...
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    Model Pitchers: mixing speeds

    Wilkinson throws the same pitch at multiple speeds, that is what makes her a little different. She will throw a Curveball (for instance) as a full speed pitch, then back off 5-7 mph. There aren't too many out there that do this, yet. Most rely on the different pitches alone to keep a batter...
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    Looking for hitting guidance

    Ok, so on number two, start with higher back elbow and try to keep the spacing. Both need more lateral hip move and to "walk away from their hands" (stride and the stride drill should help with that). Is that the first two things I need to be working on? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD
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    Looking for hitting guidance

    Also, I thought I should post a video of my other DD (twin sister), I actually see some things here that my untrained eye think is an improvement over her sister. Still I think they will both benefit from a lot of swing work! http://youtu.be/W9N2j-PUNq0 Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD
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    Looking for hitting guidance

    First, I want to say thank you for all the input. I am really at a point of educating myself. I have always known what a power swing looked like, but I bought into the old school thoughts and keys when my girls were learning. Hope I'm not too far down the road with the wrong swing. That...
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    Looking for hitting guidance

    I have to agree with you, just wasn't exactly sure where to start. It is actually something I knew. Unfortunately I have been so focused on pitching that I know I let her hitting slide. Y'all are all confirming my suspicion. As a side note, I haven't been a student of the hitting side very...
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    Looking for hitting guidance

    FFS, thanks, I like that drill. I think I've seen you post it before and we will work on that this afternoon. I agree my statement about her power is relative, like I said she hits a lot of deep balls compared to team mates on her travel team and others her age, but I also know she isn't...
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    Looking for hitting guidance

    Thanks for the input, I'm asking for a reason. I've been thinking about teaching stride is why I asked. Also she has a lot of power right now, just thinking if she could get a little more the "warning track power" would become real power. Now to figure out how to teach it to her myself...
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    Looking for hitting guidance

    Thanks for the input! She has been taught no stride, thinking about starting to teach a little stride, not sure if I'll do it before spring starts (two weeks) or try during summer break? Don't want to mess her timing up much. Maybe teach a little toe tap? I was a little concerned about the...
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    Looking for hitting guidance

    Attaching a slow motion video link of one of my DD. She looks pretty good to me but I'd like some guidance from the brain trust here. Input appreciated! Hope I get this link right! https://youtu.be/c11PP7K7DIA Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD
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