Now lets throw in a couple differences....spine attachment and angle differences, narrower and round shoulders, carrying angle of the girls elbow, wider hips, however flatter and thin in structure, knees more under them causing the Q angle differences, ham string is not as balanced as to the male knee causing ACL issues, front of foot is usually wider however heel of foot is narrower.
Good points. Lots of physical differences. Some are obvious, some are not. I know when I swing a bat some of my girls use I feel very out of control. It's just too danged light for me. But I forget it might be heavy for them.
Ken John and I are friends and we have exchanged many ideas on using martial art as a way to teach. I took two years of before heading into the Navy back in 68 and the balance we were taught was first and foremost the most important aspect of basic understanding of how our body works when doing a complicated move. My wife is an RN in OBGYN so I have a lot of material to read and sources available. I have people at Children's Hospital Cincinnati Sports Med as I use as resources on drills etc so I can find out if the drill will or can hurt my girls. John teaches kick boxing at St. Thomas and we were talking about using our martial arts as to punching and pulling the glove in to add additional force when throwing the ball. John said he ties the kick boxers hands behind them to isolate the lower half of the body for balance techniques. He asked me to try what he has done by having a girl throw with their hands behind their back so they just feel the legs and hips and what their shoulders must do without using the arms or hands. Same thing with hitting when your hands are behind your back. A lot can be learned when you work with other people who have a common interest in teaching and do not have a paradigm of it only works one way.
I took a year of it back in college. Was pretty good, too. I had no trouble sparring with most higher belts. But then I changed colleges and that was that. Still, the principles are there. Balance is really key, especially when you're doing bigger kicks. That's some of that cross-training a lot of boys and girls miss these days because they end up specializing so early.
I keep hearing about the golf swing and let me regress slightly...Tiger Woods is teeing off and a photographer is using his camera to take a series of shots and Tiger turns around and says come on guys can't you see I am teeing off! I will have you removed if you do it again! Wow! I bet AP would make a great golfer as he can stand in front of drunk fans, yelling and screaming, flash bulbs going off and facing a ball that is going 90 MPH and never loose focus and hit it out of the park! That is all I need to know about the golf swing. Give me someone I can relate to to teach a kid who knows nothing about a swing and has to hit a moving ball and then we have something to talk about!
Not to mention Tiger doesn't have to do it with parents, coaches and fans all yelling advice to him! "Keep your head in, Tiger!" "Hands back!" "Watch for the trap on the left!" It's a wonder the average girl can hit at all with all that stuff rattling in her head.
One last story...I worked with a person last night using Skypes an on line real time video service for 1 hour and 25 minutes.I could see her and she could see me. He had made the connector and hand path device and had a cut off bat handle and a rubber cord in it. She hit a few balls and basically pulled everything and had a poor weight shift and poor balance and no hand separation. When we were done she could hit the ball exactly up the middle into our zone and then we worked on her hitting the outside pitch with authority. During the outside lesson I stopped to get in the throwing technique and after about 15 minutes she was throwing much harder and we went back to the outside pitch and dad was all excited as was she.
Nice! Best feeling in the world -- except for maybe winning the Lottery.