Long story short...
My daughter- 14. 9th grade. pitcher (pitched since she was 8- on 3 different travel ball teams- little league all-star state tournaments. pitches on an A travel team this year for the first time).
...But she doesn't throw a rise yet.
She's been with the same instructor since she was 10 (local). She started going to a tincher instructor at the beginning of 13u (but a far drive away from us)...
Neither instructor has given her the rise ball to work on yet.
We don't question it. We trust the instructors & we've heard from both denny tincher plus his instructor that having a large quantity of pitches isn't the solution. We agree. At Tincher lessons she works on fastball, change & drop only- good location. Speed is ok.
At lessons with her longtime instructor from 10yo- she's also been taught curve & screw too. She has those both pretty good too and puts some time in on them.
But no one has even MENTIONED the rise ball to us along the way. We're just waiting. Whatever.
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Well... her first school practices ever were this week and ALL the high school coach cares about... is the riseball. Apparently it is ALL he calls. It is all he asks about. And sure enough he asked her this week. When she mentioned all the pitches she has and that she doesn't have the rise ball... apparently he walked away from her. Hasn't talked to her again.
My daughter is BEYOND upset. In her eyes... she's now pitcher#3 instead of pitcher#2 where she hoped she'd be. And so be it. And we're talking her through that.
My dilemma is what to do/think about the rise. Do we go ahead and seek out & search help with it. This year? For next year? I don't know anything about this? She's had fast, change, drop, curve & screw since she was 11! What causes the delay in YEARS to even be introduced to the rise ? What am i missing? Is she not even going to have the rise by next year? What would you do?
If she wasn't so upset- it would be a different story... it would. But she's inconsolable. She wants to know what in the world is so wrong with her that no one is teaching her the rise ball.
My daughter- 14. 9th grade. pitcher (pitched since she was 8- on 3 different travel ball teams- little league all-star state tournaments. pitches on an A travel team this year for the first time).
...But she doesn't throw a rise yet.
She's been with the same instructor since she was 10 (local). She started going to a tincher instructor at the beginning of 13u (but a far drive away from us)...
Neither instructor has given her the rise ball to work on yet.
We don't question it. We trust the instructors & we've heard from both denny tincher plus his instructor that having a large quantity of pitches isn't the solution. We agree. At Tincher lessons she works on fastball, change & drop only- good location. Speed is ok.
At lessons with her longtime instructor from 10yo- she's also been taught curve & screw too. She has those both pretty good too and puts some time in on them.
But no one has even MENTIONED the rise ball to us along the way. We're just waiting. Whatever.
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Well... her first school practices ever were this week and ALL the high school coach cares about... is the riseball. Apparently it is ALL he calls. It is all he asks about. And sure enough he asked her this week. When she mentioned all the pitches she has and that she doesn't have the rise ball... apparently he walked away from her. Hasn't talked to her again.
My daughter is BEYOND upset. In her eyes... she's now pitcher#3 instead of pitcher#2 where she hoped she'd be. And so be it. And we're talking her through that.
My dilemma is what to do/think about the rise. Do we go ahead and seek out & search help with it. This year? For next year? I don't know anything about this? She's had fast, change, drop, curve & screw since she was 11! What causes the delay in YEARS to even be introduced to the rise ? What am i missing? Is she not even going to have the rise by next year? What would you do?
If she wasn't so upset- it would be a different story... it would. But she's inconsolable. She wants to know what in the world is so wrong with her that no one is teaching her the rise ball.
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