Lockinging elbow and pushing during full motion

I know the answer to this is probably buried in several threads, but have not had the time to search through all of them. My 10 yr old dd has been pitching for about 2 years. I was lucky enough to stumble onto this site after our first couple of clinics with our local high school coach teaching HE and have been hooked on the I/R mechanics ever since. I am having a hard time getting dd to keep the elbow unlocked during the full motion. She does the lock it in, 9:00, liberty, and show it and throw it well, but as soon as we go to full motion, she tends to lock the arm and push to the catcher. I keep telling her to pull down the circle with a relaxed arm which will work for about 2-3 pitches, and then back to the same push. During game last night, I told her to work on this idea only. She walked 1 and mowed through the other 6 batters in the first 2 innings. Then inning #3 comes and she starts pushing to try and throw strikes and walks 7 batters. Any other ideas to help get this concept down other than me wanting to bang my head against the fence while telling her to relax and pull the ball down the circle?

Do you have any video? There may be some things she can do better to promote the flexion in the elbow....and vice versa, she may be doing some things that will make it difficult to maintain the bend. It can be something as simple as her path, or palm orientation on the way up the front of the circle.

I will try to post some video, if I can figure out what format to upload it in.

The pattern of first 2 innings performing well and the next inning bad is similar to my DD.

I'm sure there's some scientific label or description, but I just call it muscle and mind fatigue. The repetitive motion like pitching or golfing (needing to perfect the same swing over and over again) merely take a lot of patience and mental and physical stamina, and I'm not talking about physical conditioning per se.

At some point the body and mind hit that threshold (two innings or 30 or 40 pitches) and then the mind and body start to rebel cuz they're not used to being so disciplined for such an extended period. They loose the "groove."

My DD will get through and find her groove again but not after walking a handful of batters.

Our goal is to just build that mental and physical stamina week after week.

Personally, I wouldn't get too tweaked or stressed. There may not be anything to "fix". It will improve itself with more reps and circle time.

I am thinking it might be more mental fatigue as well. When I asked her after the game if she was concentrating on staying loose and pulling down the circle in the 3rd inning, she said "sometimes but not every time". She then went on to tell me how there were several pitches that the umpire should have called strikes. I just nicely told her that she would start getting more of those calls if she would stop pushing the ball in the dirt or over the catchers head!

Is this her wind up?

Full Count said:

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I put my thick skin on, so I am ready for you guys. This what it looks like too often when pressing to throw strikes. Maybe they will just let us pitch from the show it and throw it drill next game.

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Actually, that just looks like a screen shot. What you want to do is upload it to YouTube (or another site) first, then click on the Share button and use the Embed option. Copy the gobbledygook here and it should show up. Then someone will turn it into a GIF.

Trying to get the gif to work. Works fine on computer, but only uploads as a picture.

https://youtu.be/8ZFelUSwVhk


Try this again.