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    Asking for help again!

    I like the Rock the "U" drill I picked up on here a few years back. It helps keep the front shoulder closed and reinforces this hip pivot. Rock the "U" - Form a "U" shape with your front arm & bat; Forearm is the bottom of the U, the bat is one side of the U, and your upper arm is the other...
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    Bunt coverage differences

    Pitcher is an important fielder and a deterrent for a long bunt or a push bunt and because she's not charging hard, she has the ability to move laterally especially with 4 covering 1st. Reminds me to add "push bunt" to our practice plan at some point.
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    Bunt coverage differences

    This is what we use, it's simple and effective and really starts to take advantage of your athletes, I like to keep it simple and set expectations for positions/players versus a bunch of different if/then situations, if/then situations take lots of precious time on the infield. This is why your...
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    In need of a strategic direction for pitching 16U

    Met last night with my coaches to discuss our situation plus some additional comparisons from 16U teams from last summer. We agreed pitching is our main emphasis this year and especially this winter and started in on a 3 part plan: 1) Start in on a plan to improve pitching specifically in...
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    In need of a strategic direction for pitching 16U

    This is an excellent idea, I'm going to see what I can do here. We are located in Upper midwest so stuck indoors for most of the winter and even when they do get outdoors for HS, they play in some pretty bad weather come April.
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    At what age does slap hitting start to loose effectiveness?

    I agree, the ideal candidate is both; super fast and cannot get on base. When our leadoff slapper gets on base it's the same as a double because we steal her 99% of the time on the first pitch to the next batter, teams know its coming but most times there's nothing they can do even with a pitch...
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    In need of a strategic direction for pitching 16U

    Thanks for the feedback, I don't have a ton of desk time this weekend but will sit with this and comeback with a summary of what I'm hearing here. Re-reading my earlier post this was a little misleading "As far a coaches this year, there is some basic knowledge but overall we are green." This...
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    In need of a strategic direction for pitching 16U

    We did have tryouts. As always there's more below the surface. Our organization was going to have 2 16U teams but the other HC stepped back and ours was the only one. We did the best we could at the time and I still feel we did good. Also worth mentioning that some of the girls (A & D)...
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    In need of a strategic direction for pitching 16U

    Thanks for responding. D is new to our team (she is on our team) which we formed at tryouts in August, played with many of our girls in HS. We played one 3 game friendly scrimmage in the Fall and she pitched 75% of 1 game, she had a rough outing. Besides one practice, she probably hadn't...
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    In need of a strategic direction for pitching 16U

    I am about to jump into pitching head first but I'm way behind the curve (pun intended). Here's the situation, I'll try not to get too, wordy; Current info - 16U team moving from 14U last year. My latest focus (and thus this thread) came from asking a very successful HC to share his team...
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    Any good "situational" fielding drills?

    Just realized the OP was asking specifically for situational. Here's a specific situation I like running, maybe for older teams working on cutoffs/extra bases/balls in play but also base running. 2 buckets with balls (or just 2 piles of balls) in LC and RC (deeper than the outfielders). Full...
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    Any good "situational" fielding drills?

    Love this, this is one of my top 3 drills. At lower ages you may want to really work on form first and in that case I would point you to these 2 videos; 1. Infield progression (starts at 3:20) - We do this even at an older age to remind them about the basics again, we do it indoors with small...
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    Thoughts on powerlifting

    Sounds awesome, my DD wont touch weights unless we have the whole team doing it. Now if you can get her to cycle between weight lifting and SPARQ (jump/explosive) training you can really make some gains in speed and dynamic power. Although if they are doing explosive lifting (like cleans or...
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    At what age does slap hitting start to loose effectiveness?

    That's awesome! I learned the hard way. It was 2 years ago at the State Tourney, a team we had played 4 times already earlier in the summer knew that our 2 1st year slappers were unable to hit hard line drives. This was the game to go to the championship and they played the outfield on the...
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    Outside pitch

    If she's trying to soft slap into the 5/6 hole then I'd recommend a progression, do it a couple of times a week and I think it will help. Something like this; Equipment; tee, throw down plate, bow net, 1) From batter's box perform foot work (front foot back then crossover) and sprint towards...
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