My DD has the dreaded swim glove. Yes, it affects her pitching because the glove weight and power in the glove arm pulls her closed before ball release and she is losing power and accuracy.
when she consciously pushes the glove to the catcher her pitches are faster (2-3mph), more spin and extremely accurate. But getting into games, all the drills go out the window and the swim glove returns.
It is embedded in her subconscious. We have tried: noodle, thumb down, glove as sights on catcher, arm flaps, etc - but we can't get past it and it bothers us both.
She has tried pitching with no glove which has made her realize she needs to glove for balance and gets it that her glove is affecting the pitch, but we just can't get it fixed even after all the hours we spend trying to correct it.
Any tricks, suggestions, ideas. Anything. Please.
when she consciously pushes the glove to the catcher her pitches are faster (2-3mph), more spin and extremely accurate. But getting into games, all the drills go out the window and the swim glove returns.
It is embedded in her subconscious. We have tried: noodle, thumb down, glove as sights on catcher, arm flaps, etc - but we can't get past it and it bothers us both.
She has tried pitching with no glove which has made her realize she needs to glove for balance and gets it that her glove is affecting the pitch, but we just can't get it fixed even after all the hours we spend trying to correct it.
Any tricks, suggestions, ideas. Anything. Please.