HalSkinner: In your post #6 on this subject, the pictures show a hand gripping the ball. But holy crappola !! -- the hand looks like Andre the Giant has changed sports, and is now throwing risers instead of throwing his opponents into the risers.
The ball looks like an 11" size used by 10u-ers.
I really think all posts on grips for various pitches should include some consideration for the relatively small hand size of girls. I see Bill Hillhouse talking about emphasis on fingers to spin the ball. I see lots of recommendations for learning a drop to use the peel method. I look at all sorts of grip pictures and realize how irrelevent many are for small handed females. Sure, if you have 5" long fingers, it's a lot easier and more effective to spin the riser, or pull over the top of a peel drop. But let's work thru the realities of who the primary audience is -- PC's and dad's who are trying to develop better pitchers out of their 10-16 yr old clients.
Same basic argument about delivery techniques, e.g. hiding your grip from the batter. 98% of the batters facing the pitchers who may be looking for advise to improve are not going to identify a pitch and adjust to it by a glimpse of the hand grip in full acceleration. Let's not make a federal case of it.
Jim
The ball looks like an 11" size used by 10u-ers.
I really think all posts on grips for various pitches should include some consideration for the relatively small hand size of girls. I see Bill Hillhouse talking about emphasis on fingers to spin the ball. I see lots of recommendations for learning a drop to use the peel method. I look at all sorts of grip pictures and realize how irrelevent many are for small handed females. Sure, if you have 5" long fingers, it's a lot easier and more effective to spin the riser, or pull over the top of a peel drop. But let's work thru the realities of who the primary audience is -- PC's and dad's who are trying to develop better pitchers out of their 10-16 yr old clients.
Same basic argument about delivery techniques, e.g. hiding your grip from the batter. 98% of the batters facing the pitchers who may be looking for advise to improve are not going to identify a pitch and adjust to it by a glimpse of the hand grip in full acceleration. Let's not make a federal case of it.
Jim