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Nov 8, 2018
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Let’s talk drive mechanics.
No one seems to have yet.
First. She is strong. Real strong. Makes my 14u dd look like a 10 yo
Lmao.
I believe she could do way more with her drive. Notice how straight up and down she is as she Pushes off. Then she tends to go up and not out. How can we Tell? Her land foot. It slaps down and If you slow down the vid she lands on her toes not her ball of the foot or mid foot strike.
Get some hinge at the waist and have her drive straight out into her front leg. She could pick up a couple mph just with that.
Be sure her timing stays correct.


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Let’s talk drive mechanics.
No one seems to have yet.
First. She is strong. Real strong. Makes my 14u dd look like a 10 yo
Lmao.
I believe she could do way more with her drive. Notice how straight up and down she is as she Pushes off. Then she tends to go up and not out. How can we Tell? Her land foot. It slaps down and If you slow down the vid she lands on her toes not her ball of the foot or mid foot strike.
Get some hinge at the waist and have her drive straight out into her front leg. She could pick up a couple mph just with that.
Be sure her timing stays correct.


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Yes I’m having trouble getting her to grasp the hinge concept that the shoulders will be in front of her hips when she does it right. I’ve showed her diagrams and her videos. It’s something we need to spend more time on. Would standing long jumps be a way to help her feel the hinge and exploding forward or is there a better way.
 
Nov 8, 2018
774
63
Yes I’m having trouble getting her to grasp the hinge concept that the shoulders will be in front of her hips when she does it right. I’ve showed her diagrams and her videos. It’s something we need to spend more time on. Would standing long jumps be a way to help her feel the hinge and exploding forward or is there a better way.

Great question. My dd had similar issue.
2 things helped her. Split and git drill which is like the push back drill. And we changed her windup so she ends in a hinge position. Monica Abbott does too but my dd is nothing like hers. Haha.



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Oct 26, 2019
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Yes I’m having trouble getting her to grasp the hinge concept that the shoulders will be in front of her hips when she does it right. I’ve showed her diagrams and her videos. It’s something we need to spend more time on. Would standing long jumps be a way to help her feel the hinge and exploding forward or is there a better way.

The thing that seemed to click with my DD was relating it to running (I got the idea from Java and the drive mechanics thread). The push off from the mound is very similar to the push off when stealing a base. The foot behind the mound (left for for a righty) makes an initial push And then the right finishes the push/drive. The lightbulb moment for us was relating it to that trading out the base for the pitching rubber.
 
Apr 12, 2015
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She looks really good. I picked up the same drive issues as DrRiello.

My 2 cents:

1. Do 7 step run-throughs. Just like a walk through, but actually running. After about 1000, her body will figure things out.
2. Get her mind on her stride leg, specifically the knee. Right now she is reaching with her foot. She looks like she's a SWAT team member kicking down a door. Get her focus off the foot and on the knee. On the launch, really drive the KNEE forward. She'll find that its impossible to drive the stride knee out AND keep an upright posture. Focusing on the knee will bring her into a more desirable sprinters "H" posture.

A last note, check her landing foot. Hard to tell, but she looks like she's landing awfully perpendicular to the power line. The problem with this is as she increases the force of her drive that stride knee is going to take one hell of a beating. Not really a mechanics issue but more of a long-term health issue.

Again, she looks really good. Great job coach.
 

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