Coach asked me why I teach I/R!!

[Dukhunt22]

It was funny yesterday. My DD isn't a pitcher by no means, but she wants to pitch so bad. So I told her we would for 10U. After that if she doesn't get any bigger we are gonna just work on fielding and hitting. She's the smallest on her travel ball team. She gonna play park ball just to pitch some.

Travel coach been watching and asked why you teach that style of pitching. Because they are straight hello elbow. My little bitty DD already throws as fast as our number one, but hasn't quite have the control yet. Even a former D1 World Series pitcher we know teaches hello elbow. I told my wife I bet she didn't do it when she pitched in college.

Have any of ya'll been asked why you teach I/R instead of Hello elbow? And what was your response???

 

[JJsqueeze]

Just ignore everyone, as they get older the unsolicited advice falls away. DD used to get a lot of input at 10/11 years old, it magically stopped last year and i haven't heard a peep of advice since then.

 

[sluggers]

Swinging a golf club is the closest athletic motion to softball pitching. Did you ever see Tiger Woods finish a drive with HE?

 

[javasource]

Come on, Ray... we all know the closest thing to pitching is bowling...

 

[coach james]

My response is, if we want to become the best, does it not stand to reason that we practice like the best?

 

[BoardMember]

Swinging a golf club is the closest athletic motion to softball pitching. Did you ever see Tiger Woods finish a drive with HE?

Hence my index hovers between 1.5 and 3.

 

[Doug Romrell]

Travel coach been watching and asked why you teach that style of pitching.

This is the true translation of what he/she said to you....

 

[ian]

Sounds like you have a good coach hes asking questions. Atleast your coach isnt barking at your DD every pitch saying 'Finish here! Finish here!" While doing the HE motion.

 

[Phathead]

Just ignore everyone, as they get older the unsolicited advice falls away.

Then it starts again in HS with the former college coach tried to change everything.

 

[grcsftbll]

Watching all the 10U tournaments I do now, it's kinda crazy how many girls use HE. And a lot of them you can actually see them pitch IR, then remember to bring their hand up to their ear after a second, which makes absolutely no impact on anything. It seems so obviously stupid. A girl on our ex team is taking lessons from the girl I posted on here about, who said how crazy it was some PCs teach turning your hand over when you pitch. I want to say something about it but I don't want to seem like I'm butting in, ya know? Blah.