Pitching speeds from Champions Showcase skills challenge in Marietta, GA Nov 2012

[RubberBiscuit]

Wow bh really makes it clear and makes it sound easy to change (but we know it's not easy)

My only lasting thought here on getting speed as this girl does is maybe try to get the initial opening of the hips more open (as I was suggesting before,more open towards second rather than just open towards third)

 

[sc7475]

Is that the complete list of pitching speeds?
26 pitchers and at least 13 are in the 60's?
Check that gun. Seems it was a bit on the fast side.
60's isnt the normal.

 

[JAD]

Is that the complete list of pitching speeds?
26 pitchers and at least 13 are in the 60's?
Check that gun. Seems it was a bit on the fast side.
60's isnt the normal.

I cannot comment on the accuracy of the radar gun used, but to clarify, these pitching speeds are from the Champions Elite Skills Showcase. Participants paid $195 to 'showcase' their skills on Friday night, before the tournament, for the college coaches in attendance. These are NOT pitching speeds from actual tournament play. Regrettably, the list I was provided did not include the graduation year of the pitcher, but there were a number of junior and seniors in the mix, and at $195 each, I imagine only pitchers who thought they would 'benefit' from having pitching speeds posted, participated in the event!

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[Jojo]

So I would bet a shiny new dollar that here is and will be her story:
1. Her original PC does not know enough to teach a motion to steer clear of crow-hopping.
2. She accelled in youth SB.
3. With this success nobody ever saw the need to tell her she's illegal.
4. She may have been confronted at infrequent times that she is illegal but since by this time she was "acknowledged" as a talent and/or she was just doing Showcase tourneys no umpire ever got the guts to call her out.
5. With throwing 70mph she will automatically get a big D1 spot.
6. She will pound through her first regular season being "the amazing freshman".
7 Only to get confronted by the inconsistency of NCAA application of rules in the World Series and illegal pitch her team right out of the Series never to be seen again becasue, I believe, especially in the case of crow-hopping, it is not an easy timing fix to deal with at 18 yrs old for the first time.....

Shame cuz it's apparent she's an amazing athelete.....

She may be able to fix it.

I've had a student since she was 12, that I fussed at forever about her crow-hop. It was a tiny one that never got called and she was stubborn as all get out and wouldn't conform. I always told her the stories about how "one of these days", and she would not listen.
Flash forward to she's in college now--long story...red shirted, looking for a new school.....she's at an exposure tournament and the ump calls time out and goes over to talk to her. Tells her he's not going to call her crow-hop, but she might not get so lucky with another ump. She finally got the wake-up call and she busted her butt and fixed that hop.