Mound time will be determined by results and has nothing to do with their method of pitching.
Would you talk to the rest of the coaches out there?
Mound time will be determined by results and has nothing to do with their method of pitching.
My 11 YO DD has been pitching 3 years. She is a step pitcher so far, and first learned mechanics from a local JC PC who taught her I/R with brush. She since took lessons from several DI pitchers. Several of her HCs since have tried to play PC and adjust her mechanics with wrist snap warm-ups and HE finish (oh no, not again in this thread, right?). When I see it I politely tell the coach in private that is not what her PC has taught her. I got varied responses, from "she's not a pitcher" to "okay, sorry about that." So like Ken B suggested, I tend to smile and nod. Then I tell DD later to follow direction from her PC or she'll regress.
I always tell them "The pitch is gone. Why do you want to make it difficult to field the ball?"
We'll see, if she does what she can do, then I am sure she will get enough innings, if she let's herself slip either mentally or mechanically then she will be fighting for innings against a coaches daughter and two girls with seniority on the team and she will get a lot less. As the surfer dude turtle says in FINDING NEMO.."let's see what squirt does flying solo"
That is BS!! Your daughter should not have to deal with something like that. I feel terrible for your DD and hopefully the same thing does not happen with JJ. I am the closest thing our team has to a PC. We have three IR pitchers and one HE pitcher. I do what I can to help all of them. And although I feel strongly that IR is the better method, I will not force the HE pitcher to change. Mound time will be determined by results and has nothing to do with their method of pitching.
DD had her first pitching workout with her new team. The three other pitchers on the team work with the ORG PC and my DD is the lone wolf working with another PC. They all lined up did their thing and all the girls were throwing with I/R. My DD just didn't finish with the artificial HE tack on the other girls were using. So the PC tells the HC in a derogatory way that my DD pitches with her hand over the ball (because of the palm down finish she has) and that she must have been taught this way because it is not natural.
I have half a mind to video all of his students to show him that they are doing the same thing arm wise as my daughter despite his teaching but she just doesn't tack on anything at the end. I won't do it, but boy do I want to. My patience with this stupidity is getting pretty thin.
... complimented her on her drop spin and movement, but said she needed to work on getting the hand behind the the ball to improve it...
The coach should only try and change something in a pitcher if it is causing health issues, poor performance, or in some other way is hurting the team (such as grunting). However, I can't stand certain things, like chewing gum, rushing all the time, not having 'mound presence,' and glove slapping, so those have to go, and I will change them. (I can't listen to 100 or more glove slaps every practice, but it comes under health issues anyway with the red leg.)
HE comes under health issues, so I will change it, but the fastball goes away by HS. I have been super lucky so far in HS, not a one has come my way.