Assuming you understand pitching talk to her about pitching and situations. What age is she? Is she able to throw multiple pitches and hit her spots at least with her fastball/dropball? If she can't implement what she is learning she won't likely take it to heart. If she can implement it, watch...
I have taught a hop for years with good success. The timing is key. They need to hit the ground just as they know where to go for the ball. If they are too early or too late the advantage is lost. Have them practice it on every day rolled grounders and on batted infield or outfield practice...
We had to send them back before we really got to test them well, but I will just say my daughter has broken two ghosts in the last 15 months and both times we got new ghosts. The Marucci didn't enter the conversation.
Returns take about a month, but I would expect they are behind with all of the returns right now. Everyone that I know who swings a ghost has broken at least one and most of them have broken a few. That said my daughter is convinced she hits the ball harder with her ghost, so we keep going...
Our post-practice circle is just like it used to be, except we are spread apart. We still break out, just with the girls pointing their hands to the center. It lacks the energy it had when they were packed in close, but it still works.
I am sure that the actual difference in the amount of drop could be calculated assuming a 12-6 spin at various speeds and spin rates, but I have not observed that any "contortion" is needed to get the best drop. I have played around with asking girls what would happen if you tried to spin it...
This is why I just suck it up and squat. You can't reasonably get low enough on a 6-gallon bucket. I have at times of hurt back or sore knees flipped a bucket on its side and caught on that, but only in desperate situations.
Baylee Klinger did look like the real deal as a hitter up here last spring. Not so much with the defense, but her bat! Wow, lead the team in BA, SLG, OPS, RBI.
This was part of coach Tarr's comment on Olivia Johnson "She's got an amazing personality, she's someone that we will be able to lean...
With today being national signing day for softball I thought a thread was in order. My team, UW, put together a great class with Kinsey Fiedler, Rylee Holtorf, Olivia Johnson, and Angie Yellen. Fiedler and Holtoft were listed as the #1 recruit by Flosoftball and Extra Inning Softball...
Have you actually looked for any research on this? In two seconds I found an article on the NIH website investigating the link between COVID and myocarditis. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7199677/ Like most COVID related questions there are still a ton of unknowns, but there are...
The football decision seems to be being driven more by the concerns over post-COVID myocarditis. This is what is scaring the presidents and chancellors. It isn't healthy 20 year olds getting COVID. It is health 20 year olds dying of myocarditis after getting COVID.
From the Easton webpage for the Stars and Stripes Ghost
The hottest bat in the game, the Easton Ghost Double Barrel is now available in limited edition stars and stripes design. Celebrating the Ghost’s double barrel design approved for all fields. Show your pride for our country’s national...
This is one I learned in my first year of coaching. I am always in a better position to see the play than any umpire. My assistant coaches in the dugout are in an even better position than I am, so please keep this in mind when I head out to have a discussion about a call.
We haven't had a lot of chance to test them because we are in Washington and under a stay at home order. We did get out once for some front toss on an empty field and the Echo performed ok. Compared to an Easton Ghost and a CFX I would say it was maybe a tick behind those two. It certainly...
While stride length and timing are related it is not an either/or proposition. You can have great timing and a short stride or great timing and a long stride. The most important part of the stride is not the distance the stride foot gets it is the distance the hips get forward. Long stride...