- Aug 21, 2008
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First of all... it's not my wind up. It's just the one I use. Semantics perhaps... but I just hate to imply that I "invented" something in pitching. I didn't. All I do is what I learned.
If she is over rotating, then she's going back too far. But, I will never ever believe that a pitcher can generate as much forward momentum from ONE arm (backswing) as he/she can with both arms and both halves of the body. So, while it also has the added benefit of hiding the ball/grip, it also means he/she will get more momentum. Just think of doing a broad jump. Do you get more power swinging one arm or both arms for jump? Both.
If she's over rotating... have her start in the "ready" position. Where, she has her front knee bent, waist flexed and both hands backward past the hip.... then pitch from there. With enough reps of doing this, the pitcher will learn where the correct place to stop on the backswing is and when the explosion forward should start.
jdavitsky.... learning how to pitch with one arm swinging will make it harder to change to keeping hands together later if you were to decide you want to do that later. It's not easy to just change pitching motions. It's not an absolute to keep them together, but I absolutely would!!!!!!
You had mentioned'd Ty.... If my memory serves, Ty didn't have a backswing but, he did drop his hand out little early giving the batter a "snapshot" of the grip. But Ty threw so damn hard!!! It was almost as if he was saying "catch me if you can". In fact, at a tournament once, a good friend of mine led off an inning with double. Ty turned around to him and said "I'll bet you a six-pack of Heineken you don't score". My friend didn't take the bet, good thing for him. ha ha.
I see you're from Waterloo. I've had one of the biggest HR's ever hit off me in Kitchener at the ISC tournment. While it may have only gone 350 ft. it looked like it was out of a MLB park. LOL. We lost the game. Not because of the HR (but that didn't help) however, the HR just put icing on the cake, especially considering it was the Kitchener Twins who beat the be-Jesus out of me. LOL.
Bill
If she is over rotating, then she's going back too far. But, I will never ever believe that a pitcher can generate as much forward momentum from ONE arm (backswing) as he/she can with both arms and both halves of the body. So, while it also has the added benefit of hiding the ball/grip, it also means he/she will get more momentum. Just think of doing a broad jump. Do you get more power swinging one arm or both arms for jump? Both.
If she's over rotating... have her start in the "ready" position. Where, she has her front knee bent, waist flexed and both hands backward past the hip.... then pitch from there. With enough reps of doing this, the pitcher will learn where the correct place to stop on the backswing is and when the explosion forward should start.
jdavitsky.... learning how to pitch with one arm swinging will make it harder to change to keeping hands together later if you were to decide you want to do that later. It's not easy to just change pitching motions. It's not an absolute to keep them together, but I absolutely would!!!!!!
You had mentioned'd Ty.... If my memory serves, Ty didn't have a backswing but, he did drop his hand out little early giving the batter a "snapshot" of the grip. But Ty threw so damn hard!!! It was almost as if he was saying "catch me if you can". In fact, at a tournament once, a good friend of mine led off an inning with double. Ty turned around to him and said "I'll bet you a six-pack of Heineken you don't score". My friend didn't take the bet, good thing for him. ha ha.
I see you're from Waterloo. I've had one of the biggest HR's ever hit off me in Kitchener at the ISC tournment. While it may have only gone 350 ft. it looked like it was out of a MLB park. LOL. We lost the game. Not because of the HR (but that didn't help) however, the HR just put icing on the cake, especially considering it was the Kitchener Twins who beat the be-Jesus out of me. LOL.
Bill
