Glove Action Important

[Rick Pauly]

Thought I'd post this clip of Sarah's glove action. So many people are posting video of DD where the glove never gets up close to even shoulder high......contributing to poor timing and balance, not to mention poor landing posture.
The old instruction "drive the glove out toward the catcher" really is not a good teaching method.
Happy to take comments and questions.

 

[TNdad]

Great video! She looks like both arms are working together. Obvious that you can create more power and whip action with a strong glove side. My daughter has some of Sarah's videos. Great training aides.

 

[JJsqueeze]

Thanks Rick. Both of my DDs get to what I think is the right glove position during drills, the glove is about head high. But in the full motion they both stop below the chest. I've never cued them with a glove shove, I have been trying to get them to think of more of an X position, but it does not seem to take root. Any magic drills for how to slay this dragon? I'm not too concerned with the little one as she has only been pitching for a few weeks and I have ben reinforcing it quite a bit so it hasn't set as a flaw yet, but the older one is further along and it is one of her top three flaws. I actually think that if she fixes this then her posture at landing will improve and her leaning over after release will be improved.

 

[FrozenRope]

Original post edited in quote for effect

Both of my DDs get to what I think is the right glove position during drills........But in the full motion they both stop below the chest..........Any magic drills for how to slay this dragon?

Things that make you go Hmmmmm. Here's the drill.... position yourself comfortably on a bucket about 40' away from your daughter. Tell her to fire away...... you simply say... "Get the glove up higher" ...... or "Awesome!!!"
By the way.... Ducky post killed me.... hysterical.....but your DD definately was focused.....in fact, decapitating poor Dexter didn't seem to distract her at all....lol

 

[JJsqueeze]

Things that make you go Hmmmmm. Here's the drill.... position yourself comfortably on a bucket about 40' away from your daughter. Tell her to fire away...... you simply say... "Get the glove up higher" ...... or "Awesome!!!"

I have actually tried the verbal cues FR. over and over and over again. They don't work, "get higher" just is not doing it. Or rather, it does it temporarily. There has to be a smarter way/better cue.

 

[Perfect Circle]

I have actually tried the verbal cues FR. over and over and over again. They don't work, "get higher" just is not doing it. Or rather, it does it temporarily. There has to be a smarter way/better cue.

Not smarter ???... but outside the box way? Been there....worst case ???

 

[Stand an]

Do you want the glove hand to loosly fall down, is it pulled down, or is it something else? In that video it looks like her entire glove side rotates from thumb up/bicep in to a palm up/ bicep up. Is that a style thing or does that have purpose?

Thanks

 

[GatorGirl]

Good to see this. Our PC actually has DD do "Ks" like an "H" or "X" just for the purpose of getting the glove nice and high like this. Kind of the theory of putting it a little higher than it will go so when you are at full pitch it doesn't start to low. Thanks for validating!

 

[Rick Pauly]

JJ
I am going to post two videos I have put up previously. To train the glove whirl needs to be a repeated action in warm up drills. These two videos are similar to the warm up positions I have all my students perform at. In the case of your DD's you may have to exaggerate the height of the glove whirl to get it to where you really want it to be when they throw off the mound.
This glove whirl up to 2 o'clock is very integral to getting a backward spine tilt at landing (about 8 degrees behind vertical). So when you go to the mound for your warm ups encourage both the glove whirl and landing with tilt.
It is not easy to modify an ingrained movement so be patient with this.

This "K"/Slingshot position is the third progression step I use in a warm up.

Thanks Rick. Both of my DDs get to what I think is the right glove position during drills, the glove is about head high. But in the full motion they both stop below the chest. I've never cued them with a glove shove, I have been trying to get them to think of more of an X position, but it does not seem to take root. Any magic drills for how to slay this dragon? I'm not too concerned with the little one as she has only been pitching for a few weeks and I have ben reinforcing it quite a bit so it hasn't set as a flaw yet, but the older one is further along and it is one of her top three flaws. I actually think that if she fixes this then her posture at landing will improve and her leaning over after release will be improved.

 

[Rick Pauly]

The fourth progression is from what I term "Parallel Powerline", similar starting position as this drill(not the crossfire/cannonball part of the drill though). Many pitchers skip over this progression, but I think it is important...another link in the whole backward chaining type teaching.

JJ
I am going to post two videos I have put up previously. To train the glove whirl needs to be a repeated action in warm up drills. These two videos are similar to the warm up positions I have all my students perform at. In the case of your DD's you may have to exaggerate the height of the glove whirl to get it to where you really want it to be when they throw off the mound.
This glove whirl up to 2 o'clock is very integral to getting a backward spine tilt at landing (about 8 degrees behind vertical). So when you go to the mound for your warm ups encourage both the glove whirl and landing with tilt.
It is not easy to modify an ingrained movement so be patient with this.