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    Building Strength...advice...

    Hi, This Fall and Winter, we're looking to build the right kind of muscle to assist my daughter in her goals to throw harder. I am familiar with the right softball drills to build speed but am curious if anyone could comment on specific weight lifting activities that have produced more...
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    Demarini CF5 Hope? Anyone got one of these?

    What do you think?
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    Xeno -vs- Catalyst

    Both of these bats this year have the discs inside the barrel. Does anyone have an opinion on the differences. My daughter has a 32x22 xeno and we've got about 5 on the team now. The xeno is really, really good. Just curious about it's sister, the Catalyst...
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    Need a laugh? ( fastpitch-related )

    Every team has a girl or two on it who bring that energy in the dugout. They are a little loud, wild and goofy. All good teams have them. A couple weeks ago at the Tri Cities Ice Breaker in washington state one of my girls, faith, hit one out. It was her first ever and the 2nd hr in the...
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    Need some ideas...

    Hi there, In the past I've sent in some videos to the forum. You've all been really helpful. My daughter's really taken some nice steps the past year and I believe she's going to have her best year yet. My daughter is 14, a 4.0 student, a great kid. She is a multi-sport athlete and a...
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    Helmet Snaps

    My team uses the Easton Natural Two-Tone helmets. The chin-strap snaps are separating on many of our helmets. It's a two piece design with part inside the helmet and the actual snap part on the outside. Has anyone had this happen? Is there a snap repair kit? I have an email to Easton but...
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    Update on Coach's daughter thread from last week...

    With the help of this board and also, the advice of her pitching coach, my daughter came out and pitched great this weekend. We were playing in the Tri Cities Ice Breaker tournament this past weekend and my #2 got drilled in the throwing hand trying to protect herself on a line drive. I went...
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    Mental help for the Coach's daughter. :)

    My daughter is a pitcher and I'm the head coach. I coach a first year 14U team. We have 3 girls ahead of her pitching better right now. My daughter contributes greatly on the team outside of pitching as our starting 1b and #3 hitter. She's a great hitter and a solid 1b. She has a fantastic...
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    Stumped

    Posting this to the pitchers forum because my daughter is a pitcher and you all have been so helpful in the past. It's about overhand throwing...I've read on this forum that you can't pitch harder than you can throw overhand. Well, this is not true with my daughter. Generally speaking I...
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    Cleats for pitcher

    My daughter is 13 and has waterskis for shoes. She's a 11.5 or a 12 womens. She goes through cleats due to all the pitching practice. We've never had a "pitcher's cleat". I see 3n2 makes some. What do you guys all recommend for cleats? Thanks Mike
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    Tips for bringing out intensity in an athletically gifted, yet timid 13 year old...

    I have been coaching this girl for many years in both basketball and fastpitch. She is a bright kid and has the genes to be a total wrecking machine on the basketball court and on the diamond. She's physically strong, bright and has average speed. Mechanically, she's pretty solid with...
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    14U team...increasing overhand throw speed...

    What are your best drills to do this and as a 14U team, what is a reasonable goal? I've set the goal at 50MPH and we have 4 of the 12 over the goal...
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    Pitcher #3 -- Front/Side/Back Slow Mo...

    This girl is a gamer. She's the kind of girl who throws 3-4mph harder in the game than you can ever get her to do without a batter. She has a lot of intensity to her. Too much at times. She has developed more control or her stuff but at times was my higher risk/higher reward pitcher last...
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    Front/Side/Back slo mo of another pitcher on my team...

    Hi there, You all gave great feedback for my daughter a while back. I really appreciate it. I the coach for our 14U team and have a couple more pitchers I'd like your thoughts on. Each of them has different coaches... This girl was our most successful pitcher for us the past year from a...
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    Suggestions -- Best Indoor Hitting Drills

    I coach a first year 14U team and we have a large indoor gym we can use. It has a hardwood floor. We have squishy 12" balls, a ton of Jugs 12" Lite Flight Balls, a bunch of wiffles. We have Portable screens to pitch behind...a couple pitching machines ( single wheel jugs-style and a lite...
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    SloMo catching/side/behind for my daughter ( update )

    Update from my post last week. Daughter turns 13 on October 2nd...5'8" 125lbs. OK, we're trying to keep those shoulders square and the arm to go back so the ball doesn't disappear to improve her circle. Work in progress, but I see a little progress here. I've included side and behind also...
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    Slow Mo of my daughter pitching ( first year 14U )

    Howdy, I stumbled upon this forum and it looks like the best one on the net for fastpitch technical details. If you have time, could you comment on my daughter's pitching form. She's 5'8, 125lbs, turns 13 in October. ( DANG! I HAVE A TEENAGER! ) She throws her fastball around 46-48 which...

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