Is crow hopping now legal

She is pitching legally.

uncdrew said:

... and sometimes you see a whole room of girls doing the same "stride foot on a beach ball, back foot on a balance beam, throwing a 10 pound ball" and you think "They all have the same issue?"

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that would be one heck of a DUI checkpoint

Under the new rules, what stops all the high school pitchers from doing this? Seems like a couple free feet and mph unless I'm missing something.

Tazman said:

Under the new rules, what stops all the high school pitchers from doing this? Seems like a couple free feet and mph unless I'm missing something.

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Front foot doesn't move from what I can tell.

RADcatcher said:

And could be different looking on a field with a hole in front of the pitching rubber.

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Amen. Amen. Amen.

Pitchers do things indoors that they don't always do when outdoors. Why? What's the difference? Well, when you're indoors there's nothing to push off of. When they look for something to push off, and nothing is there (even when pitching off a mat like in this video) then pitchers typically do 1 of 3 things when indoors: 1. start crow hopping. 2. take a "gym step" off the rubber. or 3. start crow hopping. This is reason #23, 246 that pitching indoors is 100x different an pitching outdoors which is what makes it harder to adjust. Pitchers can work all winter on perfecting various pitches motions, mechanics, etc. and it can feel like it's a waste of time when you step outside and you're not landing on the same flat spot each time. So what's the alternative, don't pitch during the winter? Of course not. But manage the expectations and know there will need to be an adjustment when going outside.

A crow-hop/replant is not allowed. This is the area that causes a lot of confusion. The uninformed think that a leap is a crow-hop. Some have even gone as far as to say that: "with all leaps there is a replant." And that is not the case, as with the WBSC interpretation.
A crop-hop is defined as a second impetus prior to the release of the pitch. Merely landing from a leap and releasing the pitch does not provide a second impetus. Most crow-hop violations are when the pitcher steps forward with the pivot foot prior to breaking their hands, thus "starting" the pitch from closer than 43' for women.
It is nearly impossible to crow-hop if you break your hands and begin your motion while the pivot foot is in contact with the pitcher's plate. I say "nearly" because it is uncommon and difficult bio-mechanically. Not to say it doesn't happen, just rare.


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Yet another problem that I have with defining "the start of the pitch" as the moment the hands come apart. Bunk. There is a whole lot of pitch that happens before the hands come apart.

Baseball has it right: the pitch starts when any motion associated with the pitch starts.