Daughters batting Progress

_MIA_ · Sep 17, 2018

clemenslee1 said:
Awesome! video thanks for sharing. The sound at the end sounded like trouble LOL! I need to buys some wiffle balls myself.

She hit the garage door I think. Probably sounded a bit like my head yesterday when, in between tourney games for my DD, I was pitching those little golf wiffle balls to my 3 year old son from about 10 feet away and he hit me square in the noggin. He thought
it was funny and wanted to just hit those balls afterward and not hit the regular wiffle balls (nice kid, takes after his mother).

_MIA_ · Sep 17, 2018

clemenslee1 said:
She did a good job the high pitch there!

Thanks. She does fine, I expect too much most of the time. Your DD is doing great so far. Keep it up!!

Eric F · Sep 17, 2018

Young players being completely different between tee, toss, and games is very normal. Keep working at it. Have them pay attention to how their good tee swings feel in their own body, and ask them to duplicate that feeling in other situations.

clemenslee1 · Sep 17, 2018

pattar said:
She hit the garage door I think. Probably sounded a bit like my head yesterday when, in between tourney games for my DD, I was pitching those little golf wiffle balls to my 3 year old son from about 10 feet away and he hit square in the noggin. He thought
it was funny and wanted to just hit those balls afterward and not hit the regular wiffle balls (nice kid, takes after his mother).

That's great! The youngest ones seem to like to laugh at inflicting pain on the parents.

julray · Sep 17, 2018

I seen tempo mentioned a couple times here. The stride sometimes results in a jeryky/panicked type reaction because of the person tossing soft toss,

. For instance, a lot of girls who get in a batting cage for the first time have very awkward panicked swings because they do not get to see the delivery. We've always asked our coaches to make an arm motion before launching the ball in the pitching machine so out girls can go through their sequence in a natural fashion. So if you are doing front toss from a short distance with a very fast delivery, it could result in a jerky high tempo stride because you are catching her off guard and she's trying to compensate by cutting her batting sequence short. I only say this because you showed us a video a little earlier of your DD hitting off a tee and her swing sequence looked much better. No doubt front toss would pose more of a challenge for her in maintaining these mechanics, but I would make sure to have a some kind of back swing when pitching soft toss so she can time your delivery. Does that make sense?

Eric F · Sep 17, 2018

julray said:
I seen tempo mentioned a couple times here. The stride sometimes results in a jeryky/panicked type reaction because of the person tossing soft toss, . For instance, a lot of girls who get in a batting cage for the first time have very awkward panicked swings because they do not get to see the delivery. We've always asked our coaches to make an arm motion before launching the ball in the pitching machine so out girls can go through their sequence in a natural fashion. So if you are doing front toss from a short distance with a very fast delivery, it could result in a jerky high tempo stride because you are catching her off guard and she's trying to compensate by cutting her batting sequence short. I only say this because you showed us a video a little earlier of your DD hitting off a tee and her swing sequence looked much better. No doubt front toss would pose more of a challenge for her in maintaining these mechanics, but I would make sure to have a some kind of back swing when pitching soft toss so she can time your delivery. Does that make sense?

For sure. Hitting off a machine with no timing indication before ball launch is a terrible condition to put a young hitter in. ALWAYS provide some tor of timing indicator to allow the hitter to start their pre-launch movements on time without being rushed.

clemenslee1 · Sep 17, 2018

julray said:
I seen tempo mentioned a couple times here. The stride sometimes results in a jeryky/panicked type reaction because of the person tossing soft toss, . For instance, a lot of girls who get in a batting cage for the first time have very awkward panicked swings because they do not get to see the delivery. We've always asked our coaches to make an arm motion before launching the ball in the pitching machine so out girls can go through their sequence in a natural fashion. So if you are doing front toss from a short distance with a very fast delivery, it could result in a jerky high tempo stride because you are catching her off guard and she's trying to compensate by cutting her batting sequence short. I only say this because you showed us a video a little earlier of your DD hitting off a tee and her swing sequence looked much better. No doubt front toss would pose more of a challenge for her in maintaining these mechanics, but I would make sure to have a some kind of back swing when pitching soft toss so she can time your delivery. Does that make sense?

I don't know if you are referring to me or someone else, because you didn't quote anyone. But I will keep that in mind. I usually show the ball and swing my arm back and then toss. I try to keep a consistent tempo with my arm swinging back.

clemenslee1 · Sep 17, 2018

Eric F said:
For sure. Hitting off a machine with no timing indication before ball launch is a terrible condition to put a young hitter in. ALWAYS provide some tor of timing indicator to allow the hitter to start their pre-launch movements on time without being rushed.

My DD coach has done a little machine pitch with the team, to get them prepared for a couple machine pitch tournaments. From what I understand they do a lot of machine pitch in the western part of OK in 8u. Anyhow they usually tap 2 times and then swing their arm around to feed the ball. Kind of simulating a softball pitch.

julray · Sep 17, 2018

clemenslee1 said:
I don't know if you are referring to me or someone else, because you didn't quote anyone. But I will keep that in mind. I usually show the ball and swing my arm back and then toss. I try to keep a consistent tempo with my arm swinging back.

That's great! Would hate to see your DD working hard on the mechanics only to have them broken down because you weren't delivering the ball in a realistic type fashion. Keep up the great work! I think your DD is going to be a good little ball player

. Nice to see you working with her and building memories as well.

julray · Sep 17, 2018

Eric F said:
For sure. Hitting off a machine with no timing indication before ball launch is a terrible condition to put a young hitter in. ALWAYS provide some tor of timing indicator to allow the hitter to start their pre-launch movements on time without being rushed.

I've seen some awful batting instruction based on machine fed pitching.. coaches getting kids to change their mechanics to hit a pitching machine when their mechanics were great for game time and live pitching.. For example, stop striding and start from a loaded position, stay back and only go forward.. makes me cringe

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