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  1. J

    Help me help her

    If you want a drill to help keep those hands where they should be and to help her learn how to use her core and shoulders to create the correct bat angle I have one. What you want is a somewhat flat (not all the way flat!!) soccer ball or something similar. Have her pinch it between her top...
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    Testament of Hard Work - and a bit of a brag post

    I dont have a ton of videos...but theres a few out there. Here's her home run from the other day that set the school/conference record. https://twitter.com/RedFlashSB/status/1108820683302293505 And some from last years tournament...I am not crazy about some of the things she was being asked to...
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    Testament of Hard Work - and a bit of a brag post

    Hello! I haven't posted here in a VERY LONG time. However, back in the day when my girl was young I spent more time here and on other fastpitch sites than i probably should admit to. My daughter and I spent hours and hours honing her swing. I took advice from all sorts of people. Some people...
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    Taking High School Sophomore Season Off vs. Recruitment

    Dont do it. Its a bad joo-joo. Everyone will talk about it behind your back. If she wants to play Varsity then she's gotta take her lumps now and suck it up until her time comes or give up high school softball altogether. As far as recruiting, I am pretty sure most colleges could care less...
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    So many colleges - how do you pick ones to consider?

    The first thing to do is consider academic interests. Then decide what schools have those academic interests. Then decide which of those schools would your daughter love to attend. This is SO important. Your daughter has to love the school and want to go there even if (or especially if) she...
  6. J

    Question about the TCB balls

    FFS....what are your thoughts on the bold?
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    Should we consider Gold teams?

    Hi everyone. Been a while since I posted. I wanted to run something by everyone in hopes that those who have been down this path can help us out. My daughter just finished her freshman HS year. She did well against a pitcher in District playoffs whos father is a coach for a Gold team in our...
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    Trouble hitting the slower pitching

    The only thing that's ever worked for my daughter when facing extreme slow pitchers is to focus on trying to hit the ball opposite field. You'll find more often than not, that that approach to hitting slow pitching is just enough to keep them loaded just long enough to drive the ball hard.
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    Digital video recorder recommendations

    To get a clear shot of the ball and the bat or golf clubs etc with no blur requires high shutter speeds, not so much how many frames per second it does. I learned that a while back when I was looking for a video camera. However the faster the shutter speed, usually requires better and better...
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    Reverse Chaining/ Backwards Chaining

    How stupid of me to want to talk about backward chaining. As per normal on this forum, by page 3, FFS takes over a thread and goes on and on about material irrelevant to the original topic. If you guys want to talk about heavy bats and "feel" and "underhood actions" and throw, etc, who am I to...
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    Reverse Chaining/ Backwards Chaining

    Clear enough?
  12. J

    Reverse Chaining/ Backwards Chaining

    I have the Epstein material and the only thing I would consider Backward Chaining is the Torque Drill. Everything else is performed in a normal progression. Finally, no one said Backward Chaining is new. I myself have not found any work on it specifically for hitting and the steps involved. It...
  13. J

    Reverse Chaining/ Backwards Chaining

    As it pertains to Backward Chaining? I didn't see any discussion on backward chaining and hitting and the techniques involved in my searches yet. Can you link it for us, so everyone can read it?
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    Reverse Chaining/ Backwards Chaining

    Tom also said that if you can throw you can hit. Therefore, if backward chaining is highly successful with throwing which the literature would indicate it is, there is no reason it shouldn't work with hitting. Combine isolation drills with backward chaining and I think you could greatly...
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    Reverse Chaining/ Backwards Chaining

    DId you even bother to read any of the material I linked? This makes no sense and is not even what I am seeing in the material I have been reading and quoting here. You ALWAYS include the end point and pass through the step (or steps) you just mastered. For example first target the swing...
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