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    Example of 12U coach pitch calling--please, don't be this guy.

    I have been working with a 13 year old flame thrower for the past 3 years. Last summer she invited me to a softball tournament that was being played near the city where I live. I told her that I would try to sneak away from my wife on the weekend and watch her pitch. The 1st game that she...
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    Example of 12U coach pitch calling--please, don't be this guy.

    I am a basketball guy. When I teach basketball, I teach kids to dribble with their dominant hand and their weak hand. The plays I set up can go left or right. When we play weaker teams, I don't coach my kids to blow by the kids using their dominant hand time and time again and only dribble...
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    Recruiting Out of JUCO

    I know that Triple Crown offers an unsigned Seniors and Junior College players camp at the Sparkler in Colorado. The list of college coaches that attended in 2019 is not bad.
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    How do you choose a 2nd pitch?

    My dd threw her 1st change up in a rec game at age 9. There were only 2 or 3 people in the stands that could tell that a change up had been thrown. I taught her to release the ball when she brushed from the very get go. When she brushed with her fastball, her pinky finger was closest to her...
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    Arm circle problems

    Without looking at any video and from what I picture in my mind from your description above, my two cents from the peanut gallery would say that if you want to improve your dd's arm circle, have her cup the ball when she is bringing the ball up in front of her body. The back of her pitching...
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    What in tarnation is this this ?

    No one was injured during the melee, as all takedowns occurred on the wrestling mat.
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    dd want to move to pitch only

    The problem that I see with kids that pitch only is that often times they develop the yips when making overhand throws to the bases. Kids who play SS and 3rd on occasion are required to throw the ball with some zest to throw a quick slapper out at 1st. This hard throwing overhand transfers...
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    New rules everyone

    I thought that ASA and USAA should have made the pitching rule change back when they moved the pitching rubber back to 43' for the 16U and 14U divisions. Hopefully the NCAA adopts the rule soon.
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    Hand position at 3 O'-Clock?

    Years and years ago(before youtube and DFP), as I sat on a bucket and caught my dd as she pitched, I could see that a crappy arm circle correlated to a crappy pitch. The farther that my dd's arm got away from her body from 3:00 to 12:00, the slower that her pitch would be. I experimented with...
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    How to ask “Do you teach Hello Elbow”?

    My dd knew she was in trouble during her first pitching workout in college, when the pitching coach told the pitchers to start warming up with wrist snaps. My dd had never done them and watched as the other pitchers started doing the wrist snaps. The pitchers stood about 4 feet away from the...
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    Leaning on the drive

    I taught my dd Brush Resistance first. I told her to let go of the ball when her forearm hit the inside of her hip, about where her 1st belt buckle would be if she was pitching in jeans. I wanted my dd to have a consistent release point. 13+ years ago, when I started teaching my dd how to...
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    Being trown out of game

    I went to one of my dd's away basketball games when she was a in high school. My dd's team was up 10 points with less than 10 seconds remaining in the game. One of the girls on my dd's team was dribbling out the clock, when a girl from the opposing team put two hands in her back and shoved...
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    Being trown out of game

    I was tossed from a softball game after our 1st baseman picked up a fair ball and went to apply a tag, with both hands on the ball, and the runner threw both hands up, through the glove and hand on the ball, and dislodged the ball 6 to 8 feet in the air. Next pitch, the runner led off and there...
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    Opinions needed

    When my dd was younger, we would watch the other teams at the tournaments and observe the talent level of athletes that were playing for the various organizations. We would also observe the pitchers that the current team had and the quality of the pitchers that feeder teams currently had. We...
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    Allister Departing Minnesota for Stanford

    I don't know. The previous Stanford coach took Stanford to the NCAA tournament 16 times out of the 18 years he coached there. Stanford went to the WCWS in 01 and 04, I believe. Stanford had at least one all American in 15 seasons of that 18 year time frame. I am sure that there are several...
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    Illegal Pitch?

    I call it a second push because that is what my dd understands when she releases the ball against front side resistance. My dd's first drag is created by her leg drive (aka Drive Mechanics) and her second push is created by pitching against front side resistance. Comp's post alludes to drag...
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    Illegal Pitch?

    I am interested in why you think that she is pitching illegally. Is it because other posters have said it is illegal and you are going with the flow? The original poster said that the conversation at the ball park was some thought it was illegal and some thought it was legal. I watched both...
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    Either my Pocket Radar is inaccurate...

    The only radar gun that I will believe is the one the ESPN uses at the WCWS.
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    Illegal Pitch?

    I've watched both of these videos and I don't see anything that would give me cause or concern for calling these pitches illegal for leaping. It looks like she drives off of the rubber, lands on her left foot and gets a second push against her front side left foot. So, like the guys at the...
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    Improving the pitchers defensive play

    I have witnessed this in both men's and women's fastpitch softball. I witnessed it this year with Florida at the Super Regionals, where the Florida pitcher sailed a couple past first base after fielding semi-routine balls. I also witnessed it with the Florida pitcher in the WCWS, where the...

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