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You can't micromanage the arm like this. She should not be worried so much about her hand position there and starting mid-downhill does NOT reflect the real motion, same as starting at wrist flips does not mimic the real motion. People are using a curveball video and then putting that all over the Web as the FB hand position. Just towards third somewhere is fine. We have girls who are still growing, while also being flexible. They listen and try and do perfectly what is told to them. So you don't need to overemphasize this and put all that stress on the elbow, and overthinking into something that is done to harness momentum not "hit positions." And then new parents come in and get sucked into all of this.
She should not bang her elbow into her side nor try and time how she hits her hip. Just slot the arm where it falls and leave all the brushing and banging out of it. I would go and read the BHH site and watch his videos.
I am not sure the complication in all of this and the obsession with the back side of the circle. It is really damaging IMO to the development of pitchers. Like I have posted, I have kids telling me in the middle of games they are failures because they can't get some position their dad or PC told them to get.
A good pitch is evidenced by the velocity of it and after that, the location. Do we micromanage the overhand throw like this? If some adult pitcher wants to experiment with things like this, let them, but keep it simple for kids.
How does this look for 9 o'clock and Brush ??
I would suggest asking her to try to get the peach fuzz on the back of her hand to brush the quad muscle, this will delay the premature rotation and produce more whip.
you can't micromanage the arm like this. She should not be worried so much about her hand position there and starting mid-downhill does not reflect the real motion
She should not bang her elbow into her side nor try and time how she hits her hip. Just slot the arm where it falls and leave all the brushing and banging out of it. I would go and read the bhh site and watch his videos.
A good pitch is evidenced by the velocity of it and after that, the location. Do we micromanage the overhand throw like this? If some adult pitcher wants to experiment with things like this, let them, but keep it simple for kids.
I'm not sure I agree with this. Seems that Balswick would also disagree, given how he described it in his three clips.