radness
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- Dec 13, 2019
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Good for her for taking initiative on her training!interesting post.....DD2 is at a 1.81 (high school JR)......she just started lifting last winter, will be interested to see if just weight training/increase in strength will have any effect on that time (assuming her mechanics don't slow down.....all other things being equal, will an increase in strength alone have an effect (her mechanics are pretty quick on transfer/release, especially considering she's mostly self taught/taught by me)
Agree with repetition and agree with get rid of the ball quicker. Nice simplified answer,Rad, I think the above is over complicating it.. I believe the question was simply, (paraphrasing), "what do you do with a long arm action on throwdowns to 2B"
There is only on thing to do, repetitive training for releasing the ball quicker, and do not focus on throwing velocity. Simply, catch the ball and get rid of it immediately. Sacrifice everything to get the ball out of the glove and on its way to 2B.
I think it falls to the catcher to be aware of their own metrics.. Pop time is really important: If they are trying their hardest but still have a slow pop time then it comes down to the exchange time. Just to provide an example, I've included DD's last mid-inning throwdown from this past weekend in FL. Its a very casual effort, but I think it can be useful to see what types of numbers for exchange time (.844sec) and pop time (1.862sec). Knowing the approximate length of the throw and flight time (pop - exchange) gives an average velocity of 56mph. It's a simple as that, work towards these times and speed and they'll be in the 1.8-1.9sec range.
When I was helping my DD when she was younger, I definitely did video analysis to see what needed to be improved on to get where she needed to be which as @RADcatcher had alluded to was less than 2.0.