- Dec 5, 2017
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Two questions: My dd is 9 and just started pitching about a month ago. We are going to a lady that teaches IR and while we've never discussed how fast dd may be throwing she preaches to always throw as hard as possible, conversely her team coach tells the girls not to worry about velocity but throw strikes. Pitching coach seems right to me as her thought is that if mechanics are correct and you throw hard the strikes will come. Second, we practice at home twice a week and she gets some pitching in at team practice, should we incorporate long toss in both at home practices? Actually I have a third, at the risk of sounding stupid is long toss done as if she were pitching/underhand? I have noticed that when she throws hard, more times than not she throws strikes or close. When she just goes through the motion, she has less control.