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    Advice needed

    Are we on the right track for adducting? https://youtu.be/IpbTf6EiYk8 Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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    Advice needed

    Thanks for the replies. We will definitely start working on those things. What cues have you used to help with the flailing glove arm? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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    Advice needed

    This video is from about a month ago. Since then, we have been working on trying to get her shoelaces straighter to the plate and pulling her knees together (adducting?). We have also been working hard on trying to be free with the arm after release. In this video, she looks like she is trying...
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    Advice needed

    Definitely willing to travel a little further, unfortunately the closest 10U teams I have found are 3+ hours away. That may be a little further than is feasible. I definitely have thought about starting my own team and will be attempting to gauge interest during our rec ball league to see if I...
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    Advice needed

    At the moment, I am her PI. Closest PI that teaches I/R is hours away and until I have a firm grasp on if DD is going to stay interested in softball, I really am hesitant to spend the money to drive for instruction. I know that probably sounds horrible, but DD hasn't even thrown a pitch in a...
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    Advice needed

    DD has recently started participating with the only 10U travel ball team within our area. The coach is adamant that she learn to pitch her (HE/slam that door) way since she was a college pitcher, knows what she is doing, coached many girls, been doing it for 20+ years, blah blah blah. Recently...
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    Hitting the stride leg

    Although her hands are smaller, I don't see a grip problem when she is throwing unless it may be overgripping. She is 9 and using the standard 11 inch ball. During these occurrences, it definitely doesn't seem to be a grip issue, cause she whips the ball pretty hard into her knee or just above...
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    Hitting the stride leg

    Thanks Chris....I hadn't thought about the landing angle as being a possible cause, however that is something I can definitely see from the bucket and will pay attention to. It doesn't happen frequent enough to catch in slo-mo, so I haven't actually caught it on camera to identify a cause...
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    Hitting the stride leg

    Is it common to occasionally throw the ball off of your stride leg? DD does this at least once or twice every few throwing sessions. Is there something specific that I should be looking for in her mechanics that may be causing this? Stepping across the power line perhaps? Sent from my iPad...
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    Pocket Radar Battery Life

    So by the sounds of it, ~2 hours is the time frame to be expected while running in CON mode. I guess I am just gonna have to buy stock in Energizer
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    Pocket Radar Battery Life

    For those that have them, what is the average battery life that you get when using the Continuous mode? I have had mine for about a week, used it twice, and gone through 2 sets of batteries. Is my device defective?
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    Game Ready?

    We did this drill/game once. I noticed as we were doing this that she began to get more focused on throwing strikes than throwing the ball with the proper mechanics, so we have delayed the use of this for the time being. I have not abandoned it forever, but for now I feel that DD and I need to...
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    Game Ready?

    Thanks for all the replies. DD is practicing 2-4 times a week into the net/tarp and then Sunday's is the day that we head to the field to see how the weeks throwing translates to 35 ft. To make Sunday's a little more interesting for her, we have started to keep track of how many balls I catch...
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    Game Ready?

    At what point do you consider your DD/students ready to step in the circle for actual game action? Do you wait until they can command the strike zone? Do you have a certain percentage of strikes that you require before letting them into game action? Here in Southern Arizona, kid pitch starts...
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    9 year old critique

    FrozenRope.....do you have a link to a discussion or video of the reciprocal adduction drill?
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    9 year old critique

    I meant to cut all of the audio out of the clip, but must have missed some. However, that was her response to me telling her to relax and take her time. She was more frustrated at herself than anything else and I believe that throw may have been just after she planted one into her thigh...
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    9 year old critique

    @Amy....thank you for the reply. The chicken wing thing might be my fault. She has a really bad tendency to just stop her arm on her torso. I have been attempting to get her to just let her arm go and at this point in time, that is the arm action that she is doing. I am hoping that as she...
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    9 year old critique

    DD and I have been working diligently for the past 6-7 weeks. Was hoping for some constructive criticism from the DFP experts. Are we on the right track? Where should we be focusing our efforts the most? https://youtu.be/MmNvS_Kb_aI
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    Drill Duration

    We have attempted to glove snap with no success. DD still isn't confident with her catching skills, so she spends more time thinking about taking the glove to the ball than whipping the ball into the glove. Currently we are pitching into a net, but I believe I may put up a tarp in front of the...
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    Drill Duration

    Thank you for taking the time to write a reply and I hope you are feeling better. The drills we run are just to ingrain the concept of palm-up'ish at 9'oclock and pulling the inside of the elbow/forearm into the side to ensure that those mechanics exist within DDs pitching motion. I have been...

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