- Mar 11, 2018
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I have been lurking and reading for about a year. My 10 year old daughter pitched for her Rec team last year. She struggled throwing strikes consistently. I knew there had to be a better way. I starting searching and found this site.
So we started changing from HE to IR last July. She hated me. Couldn’t do this “new” pitching style. After about a month pitching 2-3 times a week she started getting the hang of it. Then football season started for me and we slowed down to maybe once a week until late February.
I could see small improvements but she didn’t notice. Once March came around we started working hard. Pitching 3-4 times per week.
Now our season has started. Our team is 3-0. She has pitched 6 innings in the 3 games. 18 strikeouts. 3 walks. Throwing much faster (no clue how fast). A total of 88 pitches. She had some troubles tonight with a wet ball (spring rain) but still pitched lights out. 3 innings 9 strikeouts and 2 walks. Only 2 foul balls in the three games we have played.
She is throwing a decent change up and we are working on hitting corners now with the fastball. I have had 3 travel coaches ask us to join their team in the last week.
I understand the batters that she is facing isn’t great but I am so proud of her and her hard work.
I wanted to say thank you to all of the posters here. I have learned so much. It has helped my daughter so much. We have a long way to go but I know we are heading in the right direction.
So we started changing from HE to IR last July. She hated me. Couldn’t do this “new” pitching style. After about a month pitching 2-3 times a week she started getting the hang of it. Then football season started for me and we slowed down to maybe once a week until late February.
I could see small improvements but she didn’t notice. Once March came around we started working hard. Pitching 3-4 times per week.
Now our season has started. Our team is 3-0. She has pitched 6 innings in the 3 games. 18 strikeouts. 3 walks. Throwing much faster (no clue how fast). A total of 88 pitches. She had some troubles tonight with a wet ball (spring rain) but still pitched lights out. 3 innings 9 strikeouts and 2 walks. Only 2 foul balls in the three games we have played.
She is throwing a decent change up and we are working on hitting corners now with the fastball. I have had 3 travel coaches ask us to join their team in the last week.
I understand the batters that she is facing isn’t great but I am so proud of her and her hard work.
I wanted to say thank you to all of the posters here. I have learned so much. It has helped my daughter so much. We have a long way to go but I know we are heading in the right direction.
