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Well, as I said, I am wanting to learn because I find it fascinating, even when it goes way over my head.Jeannie, “being successful” in fastpitch is being able to put a good swing on the best pitching a hitter commonly encounters and hit balls hard. Hitting “good” pitching is all that matters. That’s my definition of success.
You gotta remember, the is is the “Technical Hitting“ section. Some people love the minutia of hitting. The threads here go on and on here about things most of us can’t see.
I don’t think most parents and even most team coaches need to know this stuff. While I read at least part of most of these threads, I feel bogged down by details here. The regular posters don’t. They thrive on the little things. That’s ok!
If the details in these threads don’t speak to you, that’s ok too.
I got both of my kids to D1 schools on their hitting. Neither saw a real hitting coach until they were out of hs and both set pretty much every hitting record there is at our small hs. My buddies two DD’s that I worked with were close #3 and #4. My younger dd sees a professional hitting coach now. She is a sophomore in college. He is super technical, way above my head. He has improved her. But she still hits with me most days she is home from school and I focus on “practicing” her, she works on her swing. All I care about is that she is seeing the ball and is on time.
You don’t need to know this stuff. In fact, I think a lot of people get bogged down in details and promote paralysis by analysis in their players. You don’t have to know anything to throw balls through a screen with a realistic trajectory and notice when the hitter hits a ball hard. You don’t have to be a hitting genius to notice when the hitter pulls inside pitches and takes outside pitches oppo. You don’t have to be a softball genius to know that pitchers really like to throw the ball low and outside, and if a young player can hit that pitch hard she will do really well.
I’m not bitching??? Leave me alone, bully.You came into a technical hitting forum to bi&$@ about technical hitting discussion ? Makes perfect sense..