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Generally, your DD looks like she is warming up, not pitching. She has to really put in an effort to throw the ball as hard as she possibly can. She is under pressure to "throw strikes"--but, throwing strikes isn't going to help her against good teams. Unless she starts putting 100% of her energy into *every* pitch, she isn't going to get better. When she first starts to do this, the ball is going to go everywhere. She will learn to control it, but she will get it.
She is at a real difficult point. If she continues to put only a 60% effort into each pitch, she will be a good, second string, HS pitcher. If she puts everything into each pitch, she is going to regress and won't have very good control for a few weeks. (NOTE: I'm not saying that she knows that she is only putting in a 60% effort. Somewhere along the way, someone told her to "just throw strikes", so she has been doing what she was told--"just throwing strikes". At her age level, the batters have caught up with her.)
She really doesn't have any time to mess around with this anymore. She has to decide whether she wants to be a pitcher. It is going to require a substantial amount of work and commitment, and she and her parents aren't going to see anything good for a while.
Here is drill that might help:
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The man is doing the drill correctly, the girl isn't. This is called a Carolina Walk Through. The object is to take three steps, throw the ball, and keep the right leg (the push off leg) up until after the ball is returned to the pitcher.
The guy in the video is not putting in a full effort. Your DD needs to be trying to throw the ball as hard as she can when she does the drill, and work on controlling her body rather than slowing down the arm.
Generally, your DD looks like she is warming up, not pitching. She has to really put in an effort to throw the ball as hard as she possibly can. She is under pressure to "throw strikes"--but, throwing strikes isn't going to help her against good teams. Unless she starts putting 100% of her energy into *every* pitch, she isn't going to get better. When she first starts to do this, the ball is going to go everywhere. She will learn to control it, but she will get it.
She is at a real difficult point. If she continues to put only a 60% effort into each pitch, she will be a good, second string, HS pitcher. If she puts everything into each pitch, she is going to regress and won't have very good control for a few weeks. (NOTE: I'm not saying that she knows that she is only putting in a 60% effort. Somewhere along the way, someone told her to "just throw strikes", so she has been doing what she was told--"just throwing strikes". At her age level, the batters have caught up with her.)
She really doesn't have any time to mess around with this anymore. She has to decide whether she wants to be a pitcher. It is going to require a substantial amount of work and commitment, and she and her parents aren't going to see anything good for a while.
Here is drill that might help:
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The man is doing the drill correctly, the girl isn't. This is called a Carolina Walk Through. The object is to take three steps, throw the ball, and keep the right leg (the push off leg) up until after the ball is returned to the pitcher.
The guy in the video is not putting in a full effort. Your DD needs to be trying to throw the ball as hard as she can when she does the drill, and work on controlling her body rather than slowing down the arm.
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