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    Excessive bunting?

    We played a team in Reno TCS this summer and the coach made each batter bunt to 2 strikes and hit away. We ended up losing, but that's for a variety of reasons, our team is still "young". Honestly, I admired the coaches ability to get everyone on board...as a parent I'd be pissed off. But it's...
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    Indoor hitting areas for small space.

    You could buy the Powernet brand. We have the powernet XLP 8' x 8' and the base folds, is heavy enough to not tip over. We use it in our small driveway and on the field with our team. You could tie the mouth of the net with rope so the ball doesn't go too far back when balls are hit into it.
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    Louisville bat blowout

    I ended up going with the PXT -10 32/22. Even though the reviews are a bit mixed on the PXT I always wanted to have dd try it out. Plus I figure it's end of year so if she really doesn't like the PXT then I should be able to pick up an LXT or Xeno at a 2018 close out price somewhere. We have...
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    Coming Back From Injury - Unconditioned Pitching Arm

    Thank you for the video links! I have the $99 version of the softball throwing book. Funny thing is I also have a bag full of 1/3 filled water bottles in my trunk that got used a few times but the girls seem very disinterested in the water bottle drill. Thank you for the reminder to dust off...
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    Coming Back From Injury - Unconditioned Pitching Arm

    She has a set of the jaeger bands that I know aren't being used. She's supposed to be using them prior and post practices/games but I haven't been on top of that lately. Thanks for the reminder on that to help along with the rehab.
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    Coming Back From Injury - Unconditioned Pitching Arm

    My starting pitcher hasn't been able to play for the last 3 weeks due to a wrist injury on her throwing side. Total injury time was about 5 weeks. No fracture. She's been practicing with the team the whole time but most throwing and all swing away was shut down till she had no pain. This past...
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    Swing out from the body

    Gif of Bonds is clearly swining away on an outside pitch pulling back towards RF...not sure what else most players would do other than to "wrap" the barrel back around on the adjust. To me, it's just what was done in that situation at bat at that particular play. On Rdbass: First gif pair isn't...
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    HE vs. IR apprehensive of switching 9yr. old

    Short story, my DD started learning IR at 8u. Never got to pitch till 10u - she was the starting pitcher. Moved up to 12u (she's still old enough for 10u at the time) she beat out 2 older, starting pitchers who use HE. Now, she's playing with another team for the state tournament and looks much...
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    RightView Pro Users

    You could try Power Chalk - free and has paid options for cloud storage and all that.
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    Hitting the riseball

    On other occasions the riseball is thrown as a presentation pitch or setup for the next pitch. This comes with knowing your pitcher who is on the mound and if she throws them or not. For people like me who live in a small area (Hawaii) then yeah you have a great ability to know your opposing...
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    My daughter has struck out 6 times in the last 7 at bats....

    I completely, whole-heartedly disagree. I wouldn't ever ask my DD to slow it down, just make contact, just put it in play...especially in a slump. My DD is coming out of a slump that has been about a year or more. She went in 10u hitting pretty good for doubles and some triples, home run, etc...
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    When is "Go"?

    This "Go" falls into the Angle and Acceleration phase with 2 sub-phases (complicated, I know). First sub-phase is setting Angle/tilt of the shoulders to get on plane/path with the incoming pitch. Typically, I would say this comes after the "scap load" love it or hate it and the batter is just...
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    My slapper working hard on swinging away

    That's looking much better than the first few swings imo. The only thing I'd say is with the leg lift maybe not so high and/or across the body with the knee. Into the body is fine, but you don't need that much. If you're worrying about "coil" then rest assured, that leg left isn't super...
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    Scap loading

    Money. Right. There. We teach this without a bat in hand through hundreds of repetitions, DD hates it but we grind this sequencing every single practice, daily if I can force her to lol. If I could re-do DD...I'd spend much more working this sequence when she was 8, just turned 12 and I hope...
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    Slapping: I need some help understanding

    I've also seen umpires distinguish bunts between slaps by the position of the hands at contact. Bunt if hands are separated (and obviously in a bunt-like grip) and slap if hands are together. Also, did the batter retract the bat back, like a tap/soft slap. I don't necessarily agree nor disagree...
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