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    The Ethics of Softball. Your Input.

    Men can crow hop. That's how they throw 85mph. Why not just let the girls do it too at 46ft and move on?
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    Water Bottle Drill Question

    Your arm should be relaxed coming from the break from the glove into the cocked behind the ear position. It doesn't matter how you get there, but you shouldn't waste energy trying to use momentum from a big circle. Even if it's not working for them in the beginning, if they stick with it...
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    Not Allowed to Video my Team???

    NFHS allows videotaping: NFHS Rule 3-3-1: What It Means for High School Baseball and Softball You can videotape from the dugout or set up cameras in stands or a dead ball area, but can only view from the dugout or dead ball area, not from the stands. But then it depends on state associations...
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    Swingin' for the Fence...Horse Power Fastpitch

    I noticed the same thing coaching CIF. Every coach talks the same way to their players, criticises the same things, and all of their players have the same exact swing. It's like they all went to the same coaching seminar. That's because coaches want to win at the expense of player...
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    Myth of the A/B/C teams

    They should set up high school divisions by rankings too. Our division 7 league has three teams that are ranked among other D7 teams, two teams ranked with D2 teams, and one team ranked higher than a D2 champion.
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    Making hitting lineup

    I noticed that hitters 1-5 get pitched differently than hitters 6-9. #2 got the most difficult pitches. 7-9 would routinely get something fat over the middle. My 7-9 hitters were batting 1-3 in the beginning and struggled
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    Making hitting lineup

    1. Best eye. That means never taking a called 3rd strike. I don't care if she puts it in play and is thrown out. She'll get the rest of the team some quality looks at pitches. 2. High OBP with no fear of stealing home. She gets on base, she's going to 3rd and possibly home. 3. Next best...
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    Ump says DP can't play defense?

    It's not, but the wording is confusing. And the numerous websites that try to explain the rule can't clearly explain it either.
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    Ump says DP can't play defense?

    This is why teams don't use DP/FLEX. If by reading the rulebook it's still difficult to grasp, then it's just too complicated. They should just get rid of DP/FLEX and make a DH-type rule for both offense and defense to allow two extra players. DH and DF. DH hits for anyone. DF fields for...
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    30 days to make a pitcher

    Did you get every single pitcher to try pitching? I found my two best pitchers halfway through the season. I had a PC work with every single girl 1 by 1 over 2 hours. The one with the most potential didn't want to pitch. She threw as hard as I did. Another hard thrower just couldn't get the...
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    What powers the barrel turn?

    I hit better/harder when batting left handed. That's because I'm 100% focused on mechanics and put less trust on natural ability. It's all timing, stride, no armbar. Front knee initiates uncoil. Back elbow dug into the ribs, upper body initiates barrel turn. Minimizing the use of my hands...
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    NFHS Rule on presentation

    If the glove and hand touched for less than 1 second or as you described, only the ball and glove touched, not hand to glove, it sounds illegal. However she doesn't have to stop her motion when hands touch.
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    Back to the HC

    I like the swing. Why mess with it
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    Show bunt then swing

    Switch to 90ft bases, a 60ft mound and play with an 11" ball. Why do we have to play with large, heavy, high compression balls coming at us at 100+ mph (equiv) smh
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    CIF-SS allowed practice calendar

    Sounds like we can practice?
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    CIF-SS allowed practice calendar

    Ok, our team didn't make it to the playoffs so we're done. However, the girls still want to practice. I'm not coming back as their coach next year but I'm still working at this school. I will be helping out whenever I have time. So my question is, as our season is finished, are we still...
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    Coaching and scorekeeping

    I don't have anyone who knows how to keep score. I doubt any parent of our kids knows either. So I just jog down abbreviated stats (only important ones) under/next to their names as it happens in real time. I write the names smaller so I have more room.
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    Online HS stats

    My girls couldn't care less about stats. They only look at who's Player of the Game. My best hitter didn't even know she was batting over .400 and yesterday asked me why I put her first in the batting lineup. One of my worst players statistically, who had not gotten a hit all season but was...
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    Question re: DD not playing HS ball senior year

    I received more "coaching" from my PE teachers than my sports coaches. I expect head coaches to teach you their strategies and fine tune your talents a bit, but not to teach you how to play the game.
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    I need a gadget built

    Wasserman's backward throwing should do the trick. When you teach them something totally new they don't have any bad habits to start with. Start with tennis balls so it's easy for them to get their arms up, then baseballs then softballs. It should translate to forward throwing. I think it's...

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