Well after spending 16 hours in a car over two days to attend a Rick Pauly pitching clinic, imagine my dismay when upon returning to Canada our top softball guy here in Manitoba tells me quite excitedly that Softball Canada (he's a director just returning from a weekend retreat with all the big wigs) has retained Cindy Bristow to help them with pitching.
So I google this person...find the following file. On page 8 of the file found at the link below, IR/whip is described as a "gimmick".
https://www.ncacoach.org/uploads/SBBristow3.pdf
So I mentioned this to our softball guy here and he said "Yeah, IR was really talked down by her." So my next point was that rather than argue the merits of one instructional method vs. another, why not just look at what the best pitchers in the world do and teach that? The response was "Well we can't expect kids to learn the same way as the best pitchers in the world."
Okay then. Now you know what it is like to be the parent of a pitcher 'round these parts...
So I google this person...find the following file. On page 8 of the file found at the link below, IR/whip is described as a "gimmick".
https://www.ncacoach.org/uploads/SBBristow3.pdf
So I mentioned this to our softball guy here and he said "Yeah, IR was really talked down by her." So my next point was that rather than argue the merits of one instructional method vs. another, why not just look at what the best pitchers in the world do and teach that? The response was "Well we can't expect kids to learn the same way as the best pitchers in the world."
Okay then. Now you know what it is like to be the parent of a pitcher 'round these parts...