By the way if your DD plays or will play school ball you need to ask her what they are doing and adjust accordingly. DD was pitching batting practice 4 days a week, lovely.
DD was pitching batting practice 4 days a week, lovely.
By the way if your DD plays or will play school ball you need to ask her what they are doing and adjust accordingly. DD was pitching batting practice 4 days a week, lovely.
Outside of pitching lesson how much time or pitching reps does your A level 14U and up pitcher/s put in? Or is the extra time spent on strength,agility or/and conditioning training
My $0.02...
1) DD took a private 30-min pitching lesson one day a week.
2) We would spend an hour/day @ 3 days/week on "bucket time" working on what she learned that week.
3) Down time is important for a pitcher.
4) We shut down every year - no pitching, just speed/agility, between Thanksgiving and New Years.
5) We paid for the lessons between Thanksgiving and Christmas just to keep our reserved time slot year round.
My $0.02...
1) DD took a private 30-min pitching lesson one day a week.
2) We would spend an hour/day @ 3 days/week on "bucket time" working on what she learned that week.
3) Down time is important for a pitcher.
4) We shut down every year - no pitching, just speed/agility, between Thanksgiving and New Years.
5) We paid for the lessons between Thanksgiving and Christmas just to keep our reserved time slot year round.
JAD, so you did 4 days a week of bucket time and the pitching lesson? I assume you did not do bucket time on a lesson day.
When it came to a week with a tournament did you cut back on bucket time? The approach I have been taking is my DD should skip bucket time the day before a game or tournament, and rest the day after a 2 day tournament. She seemed fine practicing with me the day after her team had only a doubleheader for the weekend and she pitched one of those games.
There is a fine line between pushing a pitcher to be the best she can be and pushing her over the edge.
I am reluctant to push my pitching DD even to the point of being the best she can be. Before she started pitching this past summer, she saw softball as simply a fun thing to do with friends. It has long been her sister who has pushed herself to be the best she can be. My pitcher does not know if she wants to college ball. Right now she has set her sights on being the best pitcher on her MS team (not a challenge) and the best on her TB team. She is close to that, if she isn't already the best on that team. I imagine I could easily end up pushing her over that fine line without even realizing it.
Somehow we keyed onto timing her practice with me for 40 minutes, including warm ups. Some of that time is spent with the two of us being silly. I want the practices to be fun, and more important, I want them to be time we enjoy being together. I doubt we are near 100 full speed pitches.