StormChase
3 Daughter's, 3 Athletes
Hey everyone
I've been teaching my 11 year old daughter to pitch over the last 6 months and she shows major potential. She's a natural with everything she does. Her IR is decent and she has a pretty good understanding of the mechanics. Even Rep coaches have commented how good she is for how short of time she's been pitching. I've been trying to get her to be aggressive on the drive and it's forcing her glove hand to swim, front side collapses and her stride turns into more of a leap. I've noticed with the other girls on my team that they do the same thing when I try to get them to be more aggressive on push off
My question is...is it ok to put "aggressiveness" on the back burner and to allow them to just step off the mound while they focus on the rest of the mechanics until their cores develop a little more? Or should I keep pushing them to explode while fine tuning their mechanics to suit their less stable cores?
I've been teaching my 11 year old daughter to pitch over the last 6 months and she shows major potential. She's a natural with everything she does. Her IR is decent and she has a pretty good understanding of the mechanics. Even Rep coaches have commented how good she is for how short of time she's been pitching. I've been trying to get her to be aggressive on the drive and it's forcing her glove hand to swim, front side collapses and her stride turns into more of a leap. I've noticed with the other girls on my team that they do the same thing when I try to get them to be more aggressive on push off
My question is...is it ok to put "aggressiveness" on the back burner and to allow them to just step off the mound while they focus on the rest of the mechanics until their cores develop a little more? Or should I keep pushing them to explode while fine tuning their mechanics to suit their less stable cores?