I have a 2001 team and we have been playing for about a year and a half. We are now moving up to 12U. I have never really worked on throwing mechanics and the girls and they have all kinds of different throwing patterns. We as a team decided to have closed practices to work on throwing mechanics for the next 2 weeks. I'm teaching them what I have learned from you guys especially from the "Throwing" thread, and watching how the best players in college are throwing (Hanson principle). One of our players dad has an outside D1 coach with lots of experience that works with her throwing, catching and hitting. They left the team partially because of not wanting to buy into how we wanted the team to throw. Her throwing pattern was no where near what high level college throws look like. This was her basic pattern. 1. From glove take ball around and back to the "L" position. 2. Step and rotate shoulders and then throw hard in a downward motion.
This is a quote from him to our other coach in an email.
"Please be cautious with the other players on the team and watch closly what he is saying. As I mentioned to you about the throwing mechanics, if he is preaching thumb down or pronating you are looking to destroy the girls arms. That is for fully developed arms and pitchers that are paid millions of dollars to push their arms to the limit. There is a reason baseball pitchers have pitch counts and little league pitchers have inning limits."
Please let me know what you guys think of this.
Thanks
This is a quote from him to our other coach in an email.
"Please be cautious with the other players on the team and watch closly what he is saying. As I mentioned to you about the throwing mechanics, if he is preaching thumb down or pronating you are looking to destroy the girls arms. That is for fully developed arms and pitchers that are paid millions of dollars to push their arms to the limit. There is a reason baseball pitchers have pitch counts and little league pitchers have inning limits."
Please let me know what you guys think of this.
Thanks