- Jan 25, 2011
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Went to a clinic at Robert Morris University near Pittsburgh yesterday. The assistant coach starts giving her hitting instructions to the girls, starts out talking about the load, thinking, okay, she has that down not to bad, keep the bat knob pointing towards the other batters box, I don't completely agree with that, I like the knob pointing more towards the catchers feet, but maybe it is just me. Coaches demos, looks like she doesn't like any negative move, hands static, I'm starting to think I just wasted $80 bucks, dd has a slow negative move walking a way from the hands. Then coach starts her swing driving the knob down towards the ball, I'm like crap, should of spent the $80 bucks on a pile of horse crap to fertilize the garden. The coach teaches an A to C swing, keeping the shoulders parallel and snapping the bat at the ball, reminds me of a power V look.
Coach breaks the girls out in stations with the current players running them. Dd gets to a station with a tee and starts hitting, of course dd doesn't follow their instructions. Dd turns the barrel behind the corner she creates with the hips and is crushing the ball. The coaches comes over and tells her she needs to line up the door knocking knuckles, tells her she needs to be palm up, palm down, I don't teach the door knocking grip, I tell dd to have a comfortable grip that she likes, dds top palm is up, but bottom hand on the bat doesn't have to be palm down, most of the time it is more like showing the pitcher her wrist like she has a watch on. She doesn't roll her wrist over at contact, so to me it isn't anything I stress about, dd knows when she rolls over to soon anyways by the path the ball takes after contact and adjusts it.
They start trying to change her load and her stance. Dd has a low stance, similar to Pujols, they want her to load her weight way back on her back leg, but when they demo what they want, I can see that the way they load it takes the weight back and places it on the outside of the knee and not balanced on the inside of the knee. Dd shakes her head, says okay and continues the way she has been taught. Dd gets into the cage and they adjust the pitching machine. Dd doesn't even swing at the first 2 pitches, the balls are low and outside about 4" off the plate and down around her ankles, she ask for them to adjust it and they don't, so dd just starts fouling them off, fouls off about 6 of them and miss a few. They stop and try to get dd to swing like they want, now I'm like I can see way they suck as a div. 1 team. They finally brought the pitches up and dd crushed them.
The only thing my dd got out of this extreme waste of money, is that there were some of the bigger TB orgs there and it just proves that just because you play for these high dollar teams. Mom and dad's money only goes so far.
Coach breaks the girls out in stations with the current players running them. Dd gets to a station with a tee and starts hitting, of course dd doesn't follow their instructions. Dd turns the barrel behind the corner she creates with the hips and is crushing the ball. The coaches comes over and tells her she needs to line up the door knocking knuckles, tells her she needs to be palm up, palm down, I don't teach the door knocking grip, I tell dd to have a comfortable grip that she likes, dds top palm is up, but bottom hand on the bat doesn't have to be palm down, most of the time it is more like showing the pitcher her wrist like she has a watch on. She doesn't roll her wrist over at contact, so to me it isn't anything I stress about, dd knows when she rolls over to soon anyways by the path the ball takes after contact and adjusts it.
They start trying to change her load and her stance. Dd has a low stance, similar to Pujols, they want her to load her weight way back on her back leg, but when they demo what they want, I can see that the way they load it takes the weight back and places it on the outside of the knee and not balanced on the inside of the knee. Dd shakes her head, says okay and continues the way she has been taught. Dd gets into the cage and they adjust the pitching machine. Dd doesn't even swing at the first 2 pitches, the balls are low and outside about 4" off the plate and down around her ankles, she ask for them to adjust it and they don't, so dd just starts fouling them off, fouls off about 6 of them and miss a few. They stop and try to get dd to swing like they want, now I'm like I can see way they suck as a div. 1 team. They finally brought the pitches up and dd crushed them.
The only thing my dd got out of this extreme waste of money, is that there were some of the bigger TB orgs there and it just proves that just because you play for these high dollar teams. Mom and dad's money only goes so far.
