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Jun 23, 2013
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LoL.... That's cult talk there!! :) Bottom line is this....by talking with her and seeing her interact with the kids.....she truly believes that she is teaching the best method. She's passionate in what she does. She's not just there raising money for the program. She LOVES what she does. It's obvious. I pointed her to the Jennie Finch sports science vid and the Amanda Scarborough Powerdrive vid. She said she would check them out and would touch base with me next week. Who knows....maybe she'll see the light. We talked a little bit about a few of HER pitchers as well. One is a true POWER pitcher. Granted...this is a D3 school. This girl is 6-2 Freshman and can BRING it. She did a demo pitch on the Rev Fire and hit 64. I could tell after the first pitch....the HE finish was a "fool the coach" finish. She doesn't bowl. She has an amazingly long lever and one hell of a whip at the end of it. I am going to bring my cam to the session next week and ask her if I can take a quick vid of her mechanics on the FB. Anyone wanna guess what I'll see?

So the obvious question is this: will you get permission to post the video here for "educational purposes" or not?
 
Dec 12, 2012
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So, second Saturday of the pitching clinic. They went 1 by 1 down the line and handed the girls a Rev Fire ball. This class had about 13 kids. About 6 were sub Junior High age and the rest Junior High... I think one was High School age. They had them throw 2 FB's and a Change. DD hit 50-50-32. All the other sub JH kids from what I heard were 42-46. During a break, the coach came up to me and said she was really impressed. She said something like, "her mechanics are very different from what I teach on the FB, but it looks like it works for her. I just wish I could get her to follow through and rip those hips into the pitch....she'd hit mid 50's" I explained to her what she was taught and why, and I demonstrated it for her and I give her credit...she talked it over with me with a relatively open mind....and said..."Who know's...you may be right and I may be wrong....none of the other young ones hit 50". She did play the injury card....to an extent. Advised me to listen for complaints about elbow or shoulder pain.... I told her she's been doing it for a year and a half...and she ALWAYS loses her legs before she does her arm. She finished the conversation with "I wont mess with her on the FB mechanics... I thanked her and told her we were there primarliy to be introduced to some of the movement pitches. SEE!!! We CAN all just get along.

U da man (or WOman) !!!!
I probably would not have handled it as well....
 
Dec 12, 2012
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Cuzmail...keep us posted on that clinic this weekend.

My 2 cents worth.
Overall = very good.

Impressive amount of involvement from Coach Evans. You don't see her much at the summer camp, but this one she was all over -and- giving instruction. Although it was mainly to the older (read near graduation) girls - imagine that !

She also gave a very nice recap of how recruiting works these days to the girls and parents after the clinic. Nice to hear and see because she actually went about 40 minutes over time talking to us.

This clinic was manned by by coaches and current or recent former players too so most of the girls knew who they were and this helped with the listening factor. The summer camps we attended were different.

Pitching:
> Introduction of some drills I had never seen or heard of to get the legs involved.
> Had the nice target I want (9 hole pitcher's pocket) which the girls really had fun with trying to hit the called spot.
> The pitching coach (Rhys) was insistent on finishing the follow thru with the elbow pointed at the catcher, but didn't mess with any of the girls who were pitching well (so they left DD alone :)).

Hitting:
> Run about like the pitching camp.
> Lots of drills to work on hand to eye, inside and outside pitches, keeping the legs involved..etc.
> Nice open field hit away on the main field with coach pitch to the players.
 
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Jun 18, 2012
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She said something like, "her mechanics are very different from what I teach on the FB, but it looks like it works for her. I just wish I could get her to follow through and rip those hips into the pitch....she'd hit mid 50's"

First, I think it's very rare for a coach to be SOMEWHAT open to a different style than they teach.
Second, rip those hips into the pitch? Obviously a slam the door type.
Third, "She'd hit mid 50's.." It's always very convenient to invoke either the injury card or the how-she'll-throw-so-much-faster card to support their suggestion to incorporate what they teach.

"Who know's...you may be right and I may be wrong....".

I think this would be extremely rare to hear from a coach. Given that, you are very fortunate that there is at least a hint of an open mind.

Advised me to listen for complaints about elbow or shoulder pain....

Of course the coach is going to think she'll injure herself. When someone who doesn't really understand IR mechanics watches it, they see the arm being contorted in ways they believe is unnatural, yet just the opposite is true. Getting the coach to realize that is unlikely, because, as I've said before, they are not generally all that curious. However, there may be hope with this coach, particularly if your kid greatly outshines the other pitchers.
 
Jul 17, 2012
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So the obvious question is this: will you get permission to post the video here for "educational purposes" or not?

I probably will not.... what I may do is crop the video to only show the last 1/4 of her circle....or a series of a few still images.
 

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