Couple videos of my DD. Looking for some opinions on her form.

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Apr 15, 2016
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Hey everyone I have been reading and lurking this forum since last year. DD is on her second year of pitching in 12U in cold Canada so maybe gets in 3 months of practice and games a year, very long cold winters around here. Guess I am her pitching coach as no pitching coaches in our neck of the woods. Hopefully I added the videos properly. Would appreciate any advice you can give.

[video]https://youtu.be/nqDJT5XNEQE[/video]

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Mar 23, 2011
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Here's a GIF for easier viewing. Kind of a tough angle to work with. Maybe next pitching event get a video from her pitching arm side would probably help a little.

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sluggers

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Biggest problem is that she is bending forward at release.

She needs to do walkthroughs...lots and lots of walkthroughs. Amanda Scarborough did this video for DFP a couple of years ago.

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Your DD should do a walkthrough, and then keep her right foot up until she catches the ball on the return from the catcher. She should do a million of these or so...that should help get rid of the forward lean at release.

The walkthrough is a drill that every good pitcher does.
 
Apr 15, 2016
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Thanks guys. I can't seem to break her of the bending, sometimes she doesn't do it, then bam back to bending. Not a whole lot of circle time in our seasons, by the time snow is gone and warm enough to get outside we are well into April, winter is all about hockey for her so not much practice indoors for pitching. I'm sure the girls up here are way behind in development, our season starts sometime in first week of May and Provincial Championship are over first week of July and that's it. We had 3 team practices before season started. She has just started playing for our towns 14U team as well so will get a little more innings in.
 

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