My DD switched to regular stance with a small pick up and put down. Was doing open. She seems to be enjoying it and it seems to have simplified things for herYou need to figure out the style of load that your DD is most comfortable with. Bonds uses a toe tap. Sosa too. The majority use the knee lift. Some load styles are quicker. Some take a little longer. What style loads are y’all using?
I love pitching machines. I use them for fly balls, ground balls, and bunting ha ha. I very rarely if ever hit off of them. When you are hitting off the machine you have to take an almost 2 strike approach to hitting. Go ahead and get the foot down real early and just be ready to throw the hands. I could see that messing up your timing of a live pitch for sure.She was killing the ball and then Covid came. Moved to a new team and they broke out the pitching machine and before I knew it she went no stride. Very little movement and can’t find the before rhythm. Very good point. I’m not against a pitching machine but I always had more trouble hitting off of them. She hits really good off a machine. We are wired completely different
I love pitching machines. I use them for fly balls, ground balls, and bunting ha ha. I very rarely if ever hit off of them. When you are hitting off the machine you have to take an almost 2 strike approach to hitting. Go ahead and get the foot down real early and just be ready to throw the hands. I could see that messing up your timing of a live pitch for sure.
I try to explain to hitters that you would not time a Randy Johnson fastball the same as a Jamie Moyer fastball. My load for Randy Johnson may be earlier shorter or a little quicker. my load for Moyer would be later slower and a little bigger. That’s why I asked if she had a waggle or some rhythm before the pitch because a body in motion tends to stay in motion and that can help with the rhythm of the load to have some rhythm before.
Have you ever tried backing up and throwing really slow to over exaggerate? Sometimes that forces the body to adjustIt looks like she gets locked into a speed and can’t adjust that day. Pull hitter that has days where she is late. Speed and really slow gives her issues. When hot, she’s hot. She’s 14 and 52-56 she hits fairly consistent. If you move out of that range she either great or terrible and tends to be bad.
It looks like she gets locked into a speed and can’t adjust that day. Pull hitter that has days where she is late. Speed and really slow gives her issues. When hot, she’s hot. She’s 14 and 52-56 she hits fairly consistent. If you move out of that range she either great or terrible and tends to be bad.
Tango, my daughter has been seeing a really good hitting coach since she got home from school. (Added to that, her college team coaches are pretty damn good. She came home for winter break better than she left. Not everyone thinks college coaches are great hitting coaches...)
Anyway, he has been working on many different things but one is a ton of drills that start from a stretched launch position. The “coiled rubber band” so to speak. She has never looked more sudden. Her timing currently seems to be very good.
BTW, what Towney9 said is interesting. This hitting coach doesn’t use the machine for all students but when he has used it with dd it is close (25’-30’ away?) and the speed is pretty low. Pretty much the exact opposite of how I have seen everybody else use a machine.