8 months in to working the backhand CU and she struggles with consistency and slows her arm down, but every great once in a while I will have her throw the horseshoe CU she is much more consistent, arm circle looks like her fastball. The issue is the PC teaches the backhand, she is a good coach...
So my 14U DD is a very hard working perfectionist, who thinks errors or mistakes are the end of the world, hung head, tears, . . . She can make 10 tough plays in a row but make 1 error and it's on, no throwing of bats or helmets, just flat out sulking. Our family mantra for sports is to do...
DD is 9 almost 10, she has been working at pitching for over a year now, talks about pitching, walks around pitching imaginary balls, all good!! But the first 5-10 minutes of every practice makes me want to want to bang my head into the wall!! "But why do I have to do that drill", "I dont like...
So runner on third, ball 4 to backstop, walked batter takes off and is most likely going to second. Before the walked batter gets to 1st, could the catcher pick up the ball and call timeout, resulting in the walked batter to stop on first?
Soon to be 14U DD has several flaws in her swing that I want to work with her on over the winter, lower half over strides and dips, not enough front side resistance, top half has poor follow through with early wrist roll, hits off the ball of the foot of front leg . . . .
So the question is...
I have 9YO, first year 10U pitcher who has been working hard for the last year, pitched 10U Rec last summer, some good outings and some had control problems. She was picked up by a travel team and they started fall ball, I have seen 5 of the 7 girls on the team who take lessons pitch, other...
In between my older DD games this summer my 10U DD would want to work on pitching drills, but would forget her 11 inch balls, so we worked with 12 inch balls, had many slip out of her hand at 5 oclock position, but eventually started throwing better with them. Just made me wonder if there is...