Internal Rotation Feedback

To Boardmember:

Just wanted to give some feedback on internal rotation. Before I read and thought through your posts on i.r., I understood it to a limited degree but really did not give it the priority it deserved and did not do nearly enough to develop it. Since your posts on the subject I have stressed it in lessons, especially with certain students. As would be expected, the older students find it more difficult to adjust and correct this aspect of the motion, but I have already seen positive results in my 10-13 year old students. In the case of an eleven year old who I have had for three years, I would call the results transforming. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. This is the reason I read and occasionally participate in this forum – to gain knowledge to help my students. Thank you for helping me to accomplish that.

Steve

Wow, sjsss - that is great. A post just to say "thank you". I want to jump in and do the same - I hope others will follow. I have found myself telling people about this board and how "selfless" the people here are, how WILLING they are to share their knowledge and help these kids succeed.

Kudos to all of you!

Absolutely - this board is fantastic! I was directed to this site about 3 weeks ago, and it's been the single most important factor in my daughter's development. I never knew what internal rotation was, and my DD's first pitching coach coached away her natural tendency to throw this way. In the last year, she'd struggled to add 6 MPH to her fastball, and the physics of how she was told she would add speed didn't make sense to me. We were both frustrated and honestly about ready to pack it in. We immediately made these changes, and she's added 8-10 MPH in the last 3 weeks. I think she's got a few more to get as she gets the mechanics better. The change is natural for her, she has better control now than 3 weeks ago, despite making a fairly major change in her motion, and is much more confident and enthusiastic. For me, just this little bit of information transformed the pitching process from some mysterious thing that made little sense to me, to a process that I think I understand pretty well now. Still lot's to learn, but there is always expert insight here to find the answers to the questions we are asking.

Seriously, thanks everyone!