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Recent content by MonkeyAbs
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Spinpitch or fastpitch?
riseball - just using the actual ages (11u = first year 12U) that's all. no baseball site. When her older brothers played TB and HS ball, sites like this were not big, so baseball not really in it. although there is a direct corollary to pitching baseball now that I think of it. LOL.- MonkeyAbs
- Post #17
- Forum: Softball Discussions
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Spinpitch or fastpitch?
The 4 S's in order (also age wise to progress from apprentice to journeyman to master): Speed: need speed to start with (not the fastest ever but you got to blow it by "average" batter in your age group) 8-11U starts it and DD should always work to increase speed. Spot: Speed don't mean...- MonkeyAbs
- Post #10
- Forum: Softball Discussions
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Softball revenge stories
Revenge story with several twists. My DD plays 4 years 10U and we leave at the end of the last 10U year because the head coach plays mommy ball to the hilt with her DD that frankly should not have been on that team. Assistant coach plays daddy ball with his DD as the pitcher even though my DD...- MonkeyAbs
- Post #60
- Forum: Being a Softball Parent
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pitch speed measurement: math vs radar gun
One quick technical question: using radar gun, better to take reading from behind catcher or pitcher (pointing at the point of relase as close a possible - assuming)? PS: to the response speed = k's. The most efficient pitcher throws 3 pitches an inning, not 9. K's are not be goal, outs are...- MonkeyAbs
- Post #22
- Forum: Softball Pitching
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pitch speed measurement: math vs radar gun
Pick a method to measure speed, then STICK TO IT OVER TIME as your DD progresses. Its the improvement over time that counts, not necessarily the speed as a raw number. Ultimately the improvement counts not the absolute value. Be consistent as possible with the measurement technique to be...- MonkeyAbs
- Post #21
- Forum: Softball Pitching
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IR1, IR2, and IR3 Getting better
does #1 look like she's closing a wee bit early? hips /shoulders seem a bit ahead of the forearm. Not much, but just a bit.- MonkeyAbs
- Post #6
- Forum: Softball Pitching
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Drive Mechanics
Good stuff JS, keep it coming. Devil is in the details!- MonkeyAbs
- Post #55
- Forum: Softball Pitching