- Apr 24, 2012
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Javas advice is spot on. Your daughter need to learn the wip instead of pushing guiding. Dont even worry about the leg drive yet. My DD pitched the same way when she started I switched pitching coaches to an I/R style. The first thing her PC did was took her legs out of it and had her kneel on her back knee her front leg was straight out towards the catcher(good old Dad). Then he backward chained the arm and ball position. He started out how the ball would roll of the fingers, Then he put her at the 9 o'clock position ball to the sky, then 12 ball toward catcher, 3 holding the ball like your holding a mug. We did this the first week by the end of the week she was throwing harder on her knee then if she was doing her full pitching motion. We also did the Football drill which is great because it gives instant feedback, no spiral with the tip of the football pointed up then shes doing something wrong. My DD hated the Football drill at first but know she can throw better spirals underhand then most boys her age throw overhand.