softball canada's canpitch program is best avoided. maybe it is good they are looking to improve it.
Well after spending 16 hours in a car over two days to attend a Rick Pauly pitching clinic, imagine my dismay when upon returning to Canada our top softball guy here in Manitoba tells me quite excitedly that Softball Canada (he's a director just returning from a weekend retreat with all the big wigs) has retained Cindy Bristow to help them with pitching.
So I google this person...find the following file. On page 8 of the file found at the link below, IR/whip is described as a "gimmick".
https://www.ncacoach.org/uploads/SBBristow3.pdf
So I mentioned this to our softball guy here and he said "Yeah, IR was really talked down by her." So my next point was that rather than argue the merits of one instructional method vs. another, why not just look at what the best pitchers in the world do and teach that? The response was "Well we can't expect kids to learn the same way as the best pitchers in the world."
Okay then. Now you know what it is like to be the parent of a pitcher 'round these parts...
Well it is hard to tell exactly what she is advocating in those slides there is as always some good in there just seems like the whole process after drive is not there? I like the slide with Ueno as an example of drive mechanics and she talks about how varying finger pressure and the importance of how you release the ball BUT what happens in between all that?
As with ALL instruction watch what the best actually do...take the good from the instruction figure out what is helping you become better and leave the rest.