- Feb 17, 2009
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A Better Attack Posture ? ? ?
Hello Everyone, I'm new to this forum and I need some help. My DD just turned 13 and she cruises with her fastball from 47-50, less often at 51-52. She has a nasty back-hand flip change, and we are just now starting to work on the turn-over drop. My question is about her pre-motion. She started out 3 yrs. ago with the Michele Smith, and I believe the Bill Hillhouse pull the arrow back motion, now she is using the swingback, I know Hillhouse doesn't like the swingback. I will try and describe how she loads and can someone please tell me if she is losing drive off of the rubber with her move. She starts with her right foot on the top of the rubber, toes hanging off, and the left foot on the backside touching the rubber, with her left heel raised up and on her toe. She then presents the ball, then comes together with ball in glove about waist high. From here she pushes her hands out in front, ball and hand still in glove, and then starts down with her hands to her right leg with glove and hand, then ball in hand comes out and swings back. As she does this her left heel goes down, her weight goes back, standing tall with no waistbend, shifting her weight to her back foot. Then she starts back forward with her wieghtshift and her swingback hand. She seems to be coming off the rubber to tall and upright with not enough right knee bend. She does have some attack angle posture coming off the rubber, but it seems to me, not nearly enough. She does get a decent push-off, but it just seems that she is leaving a lot of power on the rubber. I know that everyone says that it is mostly style until toe touch, but shouldn't she explode off the rubber? I was just hoping that maybe some of the pitching coaches could explain the rocker move and weight shift a little more in detail, and how to get more in the attack posture. Some pithers just bounce down it seems. Just trying to learn to be more efficient. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, ThundersDad.
Hello Everyone, I'm new to this forum and I need some help. My DD just turned 13 and she cruises with her fastball from 47-50, less often at 51-52. She has a nasty back-hand flip change, and we are just now starting to work on the turn-over drop. My question is about her pre-motion. She started out 3 yrs. ago with the Michele Smith, and I believe the Bill Hillhouse pull the arrow back motion, now she is using the swingback, I know Hillhouse doesn't like the swingback. I will try and describe how she loads and can someone please tell me if she is losing drive off of the rubber with her move. She starts with her right foot on the top of the rubber, toes hanging off, and the left foot on the backside touching the rubber, with her left heel raised up and on her toe. She then presents the ball, then comes together with ball in glove about waist high. From here she pushes her hands out in front, ball and hand still in glove, and then starts down with her hands to her right leg with glove and hand, then ball in hand comes out and swings back. As she does this her left heel goes down, her weight goes back, standing tall with no waistbend, shifting her weight to her back foot. Then she starts back forward with her wieghtshift and her swingback hand. She seems to be coming off the rubber to tall and upright with not enough right knee bend. She does have some attack angle posture coming off the rubber, but it seems to me, not nearly enough. She does get a decent push-off, but it just seems that she is leaving a lot of power on the rubber. I know that everyone says that it is mostly style until toe touch, but shouldn't she explode off the rubber? I was just hoping that maybe some of the pitching coaches could explain the rocker move and weight shift a little more in detail, and how to get more in the attack posture. Some pithers just bounce down it seems. Just trying to learn to be more efficient. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, ThundersDad.