Hey everyone! I'm looking for some advice on how to make pitching practice more enjoyable for my daughter. She's 11 playing in her second season of TB and she is doing phenomenally in the circle. Her top speed clocked in games is 50 mph with her cruising speed at 48, in her last tournament which her team won she pitched 10 innings over 3 games, struck out 24 of the 30 outs, gave up 0 earned runs and only 4 walks. That's pretty much been her experience since she's started in TB which was surprising to me and her coaches because she didn't pitch in rec games before, just went to a coach to learn how to pitch with the idea that she'd be ready to go when she moved to TB. Anyway - I feel like she's getting complacent and losing interest in the practicing part even though she's seen that when she takes time off it takes a bit to get back dialed in.
Are there any practice routine that you guys/gals have used that make it more interesting and fun? I'm over the arguments that happen a) to get her to even go out to the driveway with me, or b) to get her to engage fully when she gets out there. Current routine is overhand throw, stretch, wrist snaps, 9 o'clocks, then underhand toss w/o full windup/not on plate, then walkthroughs and then pitch from plate. We do this for an unspecified amount of time before we do a little game of get 3 simulated strike outs. Then we work on her flip change with wrist flips, then pitching it until it's consistent, then fast ball/change up and then 3 simulated strikeouts with me calling pitches. These workouts take about 30 - 45 min. She's starting to learn the drop ball from her pitching coach who she sees once a week so that will add some time to the workouts as well once we really start working on it. We try to pitch 4 days a week including the workout with her PC and then take Fri off before tournaments. Non tournament weeks I try to get one day on the weekend with her as well.
Please let me know what you guys think will help. Having a talk about it once or twice a week is wearing me down and probably not helping with her psyche.
Thanks in advance!
Are there any practice routine that you guys/gals have used that make it more interesting and fun? I'm over the arguments that happen a) to get her to even go out to the driveway with me, or b) to get her to engage fully when she gets out there. Current routine is overhand throw, stretch, wrist snaps, 9 o'clocks, then underhand toss w/o full windup/not on plate, then walkthroughs and then pitch from plate. We do this for an unspecified amount of time before we do a little game of get 3 simulated strike outs. Then we work on her flip change with wrist flips, then pitching it until it's consistent, then fast ball/change up and then 3 simulated strikeouts with me calling pitches. These workouts take about 30 - 45 min. She's starting to learn the drop ball from her pitching coach who she sees once a week so that will add some time to the workouts as well once we really start working on it. We try to pitch 4 days a week including the workout with her PC and then take Fri off before tournaments. Non tournament weeks I try to get one day on the weekend with her as well.
Please let me know what you guys think will help. Having a talk about it once or twice a week is wearing me down and probably not helping with her psyche.
Thanks in advance!