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    Fatty Grip

    The reason your fatty grip rise is high. Is the hand, and fingers are under the ball more. The up and out are her releasing late pulling up and acrossed. Tell her to get more aggressive pulling in on the back of circle. It will flatten circle out. Releasing ball flatter, and may increase her...
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    Hip Bruise

    Have her do crossfire drill, (basically, she moves to her right, throws low and away)this will get arm to roll around hip. Instead of into hip. This will also get her forearm to make contact more on the meat instead of bone.
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    Pitch progression

    Java, that is exactly how I teach. New students will ask me, what pitch are we working on. My response, all of them.
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    My rant against poor HE stlye instruction

    One of my students brought me in a picture of finch, from a camp, with ball over her head pointed at third base. While she is wearing a shirt with her logo on it, ball pointed at catcher.
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    Lower back maintenance - A question to you cagey veterans of pitching out there.

    All you have to do is watch a pitcher walk off the mound to the bench. One i noticed last year was Jackie Traina. You will notice her hip s don t move back and fourth. They move to the left but not the right. This is muscle imbalance. The right side glute muscle s are over powering the left...
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    Spin

    I have a student who can hit 36-38 on revfire, topping out at 38.4. If she just holds the ball in her hand, without pitching, she can barely spin it. I have always told them to use there fingers to spin the ball, but she has me rethinking some of that. I think finger action alone does nt do much...
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    16 year old pitcher -- back injury -- need advice!

    Most people would be shocked to see what a pitcher looks like trying to jump straight up in the air, off both feet, in slow motion. My kid thought she landed even. The camera showed , one foot on the ground, and the other was still a good inch in the air. She swore the were hitting at same time.
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    16 year old pitcher -- back injury -- need advice!

    Check for muscle imbalance. Went through something similar for 3 years. Back doc. , pt. , chiro., mri . , none of them figured it out. Turned out it was her glute medial. The pain was in her sacroiliac joint. Once we figured it out , did exercises for a month and it went away. Now I check all...
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    Advice on Pitching Coaches

    I think they both teach, wrist filp, hand on top ball. As far as I know im the only person teaching I R in this state.
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    Lightning strikes Indiana softball players at practice

    From what i have heard ,the girl at riley is having her breathing tube removed and may go home tomorrow. The other girls are ok.
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    Pitching Coach in Southern Indiana???

    Im in the Nashville /Seymour area, and teach IR. PM me if your interested.
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    9YO DD's pitching

    Look s like her hand is on top of the ball to much at 3 o'clock. Hand should be a little under or palm to sky.
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    Kristen Nottelmann at 120FPS

    Looks like an offspeed drop or change. Looks like her index finger is off the ball and does nt do much at release.
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    Follow through on a fastball

    IMO Bill s hand does the same thing at release as Paulys, the follow through is just different. If the arm circle is not taught right, nothing else matters. You can take a student with a proper circle and have her stand still and she will throw harder than a girl (leaping and pitching) who turns...
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    Follow through on a fastball

    Makes you wonder if they are teaching, show the ball to second base, wave down mech. That would be more of a concern if it were me.
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    Lookking for opinions/input

    Have your dd ask the coach to stand next to her for a few at bats. I bet they come up with a screen ! I would nt let my dd pitch in a cage, shes a pitcher, not a human pitching machine. Balls can come off the ceiling and hit the pitcher also.

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