I come from baseball. The pitching is foreign to me to say the least.
Who knows their stuff? Is there much consensus?
Our league does clinics and they are at least consistent in what they teach but I have no idea if it's good or not.
I've been poking around here and see some immediate differences with names that have been thrown out.
For example, our league definitely teaches a fingers straight down, wrist snap type of a pitch, and straight up follow through.
I saw Bill Hillhouse's name thrown about, so I watched some of his interviews and lessons, and it was pretty mind-blowing. I can see his argument for following through across the body. I have a very hard time believing our 8U girls could have the strength to even come close to throwing pitches with their thumb to 3rd, but I could be wrong.
Another reference point is our league supplies coaches with Michele Smith fastpitch softball for beginners. Is it considered sound?
I guess I'm asking who to believe, although maybe I should first ask if beginning pitching is different than advanced pitching.
Who knows their stuff? Is there much consensus?
Our league does clinics and they are at least consistent in what they teach but I have no idea if it's good or not.
I've been poking around here and see some immediate differences with names that have been thrown out.
For example, our league definitely teaches a fingers straight down, wrist snap type of a pitch, and straight up follow through.
I saw Bill Hillhouse's name thrown about, so I watched some of his interviews and lessons, and it was pretty mind-blowing. I can see his argument for following through across the body. I have a very hard time believing our 8U girls could have the strength to even come close to throwing pitches with their thumb to 3rd, but I could be wrong.
Another reference point is our league supplies coaches with Michele Smith fastpitch softball for beginners. Is it considered sound?
I guess I'm asking who to believe, although maybe I should first ask if beginning pitching is different than advanced pitching.