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    Airline Travel

    Looking for some advice. How do players who are accustomed to airline travel pack their equipment in order to protect from damage and theft during air travel? What about team gear? Go ahead and give me your horror stories while you're at it. Thanks!
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    Question for College Coaches or others who know

    Is it a good idea to put information about college camps a player attends or plans to attends on their player profile sheet? I am concerned this can be detrimental for an uncommitted player. If they go to a lot of camps does that look bad? My concern is that if a coach is really interested in...
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    NAIA vs NCAA

    What are the major differences between member institutions of NAIA vs NCAA? I have this perception that the NAIA has lower academic standards. Fact or myth? DD has been recruited by a NAIA school that is funded for 10 full softball scholarships but the NAIA affiliation has been a bit of...
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    NCAA rules question

    Was talking with a parent at Scenic City last month who was telling me that a certain organization gets sponsorships to cover all player fees including travel expense. Basically he was saying that none of the players / parents had to pay any fees to play with the team and went further to state...
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    Extending through the ball

    Have a player who recently switched to the left side primarily to slap. However she doesn't want to be one dimensional so we're also working with her on straight up hitting. Took some video because her swing is really lacking power. Video confirms what I thought, she's not getting extended...
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    Over-Training vs. Proper Rest

    Has anyone got any study data on how much rest pitchers should have between workouts? Talking 12 year olds. My girl typically works out 45 minutes 3-4 times a week unless its a tournament week. During tourney season, she could pitch in games 2-3 days in a row, then get a couple days off with...
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    Captain Positive put his paw on me

    Coaching a game
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    do girls outgrow pin trading?

    Planning our trip to Nationals, is there an age where the kids outgrow the whole pin trading and just don't do it anymore or does it continue through 18u?
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    Buzzsawed!

    Unfortunately
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    Throwing Mechanics Problem

    Once again I come to the forum seeking assistance with a problem. Got a 13 YO player with terrible throwing mechanics. The two big problems I see but have not been able to correct are: 1. Does not push off sufficiently on her back foot when throwing and the biggest problem 2. Leads with her...
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    what exactly is "getting slotted"?

    Reading on here and other forums about elbow positioning in the swing and I read a lot about "getting slotted" or "getting in the slot". Can someone please explain or post video/photos illustrating the meaning of this phrase?
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    What to wear?

    My dd is a HS Freshman pitcher. Next month she is going to a pitching camp at a Major D-1 University where she is hoping to get on the coaching staff's radar. Should she wear her full travel uniform? Tournament tee shirt? Practice jersey with her name on the back? Obviously I know her...
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    I think I maimed my player!

    Last spring I was hitting grounders to my players out between second and first like I've done a million times. One ball I hit just came screaming off the bat and hit my catcher square in the knee - on the fly. Clearly she was hurt and we went and checked her out. She limped around and walked...
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    Coaching in sandals / slides?

    I have arthritis in my feet and despite my efforts to get the best orthotics and most comfortable shoes, nothing is more comfortable for me than my open toed slides when I have to be on my feet for extended periods of time such as coaching in a tournament. (Actually barefoot is most comfortable...
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    NSA World Series in Chattanooga

    Today I am posting not as a coach but a dad of a younger player on a team I don't coach. We arrived for our 8am game at Camp Jordan for our first world series game at the NSA Nationals in Chattanooga, TN to pristine, absolutely beautiful diamonds. However, when we arrived later in the day I...
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    Cardinal Sin of Coaching?

    As a travel ball coach I have listened with curiousity as parents explain why they pulled dd off a team because the coach benched her in the middle of an inning for "making an error". I have heard another coach make a public apology to his team for doing that to a player. Is this an unwritten...
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    I never accused her of being smart

    So we're doing a little intrasquad scrimmaging yesterday and I notice that the girl I had pitching wasn't throwing at full capacity. Far from it actually. I was standing behind her calling balls and strikes and I said "when did you start throwing that Rainbow pitch?" My daughter who is 11 and...
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    Arms & Hands lagging behind Hips

    I have player who shifts her weight, opens her hips, and turns on her back foot before she starts her swing. The result is she is often late to the ball and is losing power when she makes contact. Right now she is a decent contact hitter for average (11 years old). This is an odd habit in...
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    Pouting

    Could use a little advice about a situation with one of my players. We are a 12u travel team and this kid has been with the team going on her 3rd year. Unfortunately in that time she seems to be going backward. She leads the team in striking out and has been beat out for the starting 1b...
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    Psychology of young hitters

    I have been using video to analyze our 12u girls and find it interesting that girls with good mechanics hitting tee, soft toss, and even off a machine act radically different when faced with a live pitcher. With live pitching many girls revert to dropping their hands (after loading and just...

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