1st post.....Yah for me.....
Got a question and looking for opinions. I coach a 12uB team and have been coaching for several years. This is a first year start up team that was formed after tryouts with higest rated girls after all the other teams had their choice of players. When I coached the younger girls this was easy.....started at square one as most had never played...but some of these girls have been using these poor mechanics for years.....
We had a fall mini season with a few round robins and held several practices. Currently we are going twice a week in-doors at a gym.. First impression inf the fall was alsmost every girl has issues when throwing issues..... slot, sidearm, high elbows, low elbows, no hips, no follow through and so on. My thought was to break it down this winter and rebuild.....well we did break them down to square one and even broke out a big old stuffed anmimal for them to throw at like I did in 10u. I still have several girls that will go through drills on throwing and look great.....get them into a fielding position and live balls coming at them, they go right back to bad habbits.
Here is my question....Is it worth investing in a Throw Max. I had been searching-on line for additional drills and ran across this product and was looking for some feedback. I was thinking of throwing on on every girl, but did not know if this would work....anyone used this???
Or any additional ideas I can adapt to a practice setting????
Thanks for the help......
Got a question and looking for opinions. I coach a 12uB team and have been coaching for several years. This is a first year start up team that was formed after tryouts with higest rated girls after all the other teams had their choice of players. When I coached the younger girls this was easy.....started at square one as most had never played...but some of these girls have been using these poor mechanics for years.....
We had a fall mini season with a few round robins and held several practices. Currently we are going twice a week in-doors at a gym.. First impression inf the fall was alsmost every girl has issues when throwing issues..... slot, sidearm, high elbows, low elbows, no hips, no follow through and so on. My thought was to break it down this winter and rebuild.....well we did break them down to square one and even broke out a big old stuffed anmimal for them to throw at like I did in 10u. I still have several girls that will go through drills on throwing and look great.....get them into a fielding position and live balls coming at them, they go right back to bad habbits.
Here is my question....Is it worth investing in a Throw Max. I had been searching-on line for additional drills and ran across this product and was looking for some feedback. I was thinking of throwing on on every girl, but did not know if this would work....anyone used this???
Or any additional ideas I can adapt to a practice setting????
Thanks for the help......