The Lean
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- Dec 17, 2020
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I replied to your other comment as well. The answer isn't a particularly fun one, but the answer is....more line drills. IF she is doing all the line drills 100% perfectly, achieving good brush, etc, then the problem lies in her muscle memory when she ramps up to full speed. This must be retrained, which means simply making slow but steady progress and reverting to the previous drill in the chain as soon as a breakdown occurs.
Every time she utilizes the full pitching motion at full speed and does it incorrectly is only serving to reinforce the incorrect motion. You have to break it down and hammer out the old muscle memory and replace it with the new. Its not easy, it takes time, and it is certainly boring, but its the only way to fix the problem.
Run down the basic IR drills I posted on your other comment. There are four of them in a progression sequence. Don't move on to the next one in the sequence until she can do the previous one correctly 100% of the time.
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Thanks for the response. We are still moving from ‘bowling’ to IR. I think we have made strides but posture and brush haven’t been mastered therefore everything else is ‘off’ also. We will pound the IR drills and see how it goes. Thanks again!
DD had the same lean for years.. eventually worked itself out. A lot of it stemmed from slowing her drag leg down when she was "aiming" pitches. As she got more advanced she grew out of that.
I tried for years to break her of that habit but was fruitless. Didn't hurt her shes headed off this fall to play college ball.
without video it is hard to nail it down but going to take a guess here based on what you said about bowling. A girl often will have a lean, also called "monkey butt" I believe, to get her body out of the way of her arm. From the pic you posted, that is what I believe I am seeing but again video would help confirm that.
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@TNgirl14 perfect! Thanks for posting the vid and you will get all kinds of advice (most will be very good). She definitely IMHO is getting her body out of the way of her arm, thus the lean. With that said, we try to fix so many things that are a "result" rather than the "cause" which can waste time and effort. I have been there, done that, a million times.
That said, the "result" IMO of her leaning is because of the "cause" which is she is clearing a path with her body so her arm gets through. Again, that is just what I see.
Her arm is in front of her body and not behind it so no BRUSH at all. I will revisit the video again in a little while and more than happy to help and look forward to what others say as well.
Good news is she has alot of good things going on!!!
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That said, the "result" IMO of her leaning is because of the "cause" which is she is clearing a path with her body so her arm gets through. Again, that is just what I see.
Her arm is in front of her body and not behind it so no BRUSH at all. I will revisit the video again in a little while and more than happy to help and look forward to what others say as well.
Good news is she has alot of good things going on!!!
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Thank s everyone for the feedback. These comments are confirming what I was thinking but it’s hard to know where to start sometimes. I am usually catching so it’s hard to get another angle. Thanks again!
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