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    Front toss - keeping weight back drills

    Win win!! Thanks all Sent from my SM-G991U using Tapatalk
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    Front toss - keeping weight back drills

    Sure, here's the one: Also found this one: Sent from my SM-G991U using Tapatalk
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    Front toss - keeping weight back drills

    Thanks. I don't like to post videos of my kids (I'm weird like that). She has a classic "flaw" (in quotes because she is 11 and obviously still learning) in her swing of her front leg/knee collapsing (call it lunging, not keeping her weight back, weak front side, etc). Results in a lot of weak...
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    10U speed vs accuracy vs experiece

    Is there a local HS varsity or jv coach that might be able to come for a practice or two? Dad of a pitcher and even after a few years, the mechanics are still tough for me to grasp (luckily DD is light years ahead of me). Her experience as a 10u travel pitcher, she threw strikes (mid 30s so not...
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    Front toss - keeping weight back drills

    Thanks for the reply. I'm trying to imagine this and having trouble with it. Won't the very bent front leg reinforce her already issue with collapsing the front leg on her swing? Sent from my SM-G991U using Tapatalk
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    Pitching practice - drills or full pitching? (12u)

    We did some underhand catch at our last bullpen just for fun. Just some easy underhand tosses, not pitching. Good way for her to poke fun at my technique. Sent from my SM-G991U using Tapatalk
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    Front toss - keeping weight back drills

    Working with my 11y/o on keeping her weight back and stop lunging. She's getting it on tee work and soft toss but any good drills or ideas for front toss? Couldn't find anything online. Thanks in advance Sent from my SM-G991U using Tapatalk
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    Pitching practice - drills or full pitching? (12u)

    Thanks for the replies and ideas everyone. Sent from my SM-G991U using Tapatalk
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    Pitching practice - drills or full pitching? (12u)

    My 11y/o takes an hour lesson once a week and we do our best to go to the field and pitch twice a week on our own. Our sessions are usually a warm up and then full pitching (locations, fastballs, changeups, a simulated inning or two) and end with some long toss. We don't do the type of...
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    Games for a fun pitching practice?

    Thanks for the ideas, I like the baking sheet idea. Noise!! We already have an 11 yo-curated playlist for pitching sessions. I may also look at building one of those 9 pocket targets and do some games with that. Sent from my SM-G991U using Tapatalk
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    Games for a fun pitching practice?

    Anybody have fun ideas for games that might make my 11y/o DD pitching sessions (me, dad as catcher) more fun. She does a lesson every week and then we go to the park twice a week on our own. After warmup we usually do some long toss, work on corners, and then pitch a couple of simulated...
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    Front foot - up on toe?

    Thanks for the replies. I can see it both as a bandaid but also as a maybe simpler forcing mechanism and step in the right direction to stopping lunging, at least in the younger batters. Sent from my SM-G991U using Tapatalk
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    Front foot - up on toe?

    Another hopefully not so dumb question from a 10u dad. I noticed some of the better hitting players on her team have their front stride foot raised up on the toe(s) in their stance. Not something I was ever taught in little league decades ago. Obviously flat footed is the wrong answer but is...
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    Hitting lesson the day before tournament

    Excuse the potential overthinking and silly parent question here but is doing a hitting lesson the evening before a one day tournament a bad idea? 10u player who when she connects can drive the ball in the gap but she is in a big time hitting funk. Late, lunging, all the bad habits. The only...
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    Move up in length and weight...or just only one?

    Thanks for all the replies. Ended up getting a good deal on a 29/18 2020 lxt so stayed with the same length but added an ounce. Now just have to get her to use it this winter so she has confidence swinging it. Probably move up to a 30 after the spring and try and sell the 29/17 lxt. Sent...
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    Move up in length and weight...or just only one?

    Thanks for all of the replies. I'm leaning towards same length but move up to drop-11. Moving up 2 oz seems questionable for her at this point as she continues to work on just having a fundamentally sound swing. Not looking to spend more than 125-150 so not the end of the world if she needs to...
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    Move up in length and weight...or just only one?

    10u, contact type hitter has been using a 29/17 lxt for a season plus. I'd like to get her away from the -12 but not sure if I should just look for a 29/18 or 30/19. I wish there was some place close to us to try bats but no such luck. Some good deals on used right now, maybe because of the...
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    Lxt or CF - does it matter?

    Thanks for all the replies. Yes, definitely used. Bought her current 29/17 lxt and her previous bustos on facebook marketplace. Great price, still in great condition. I'm sure it happens but I can't imagine many 10u players breaking or cracking bats. Great note about the Wilson bat day. Will...
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    Lxt or CF - does it matter?

    My 10u daughter uses the x19 lxt -12 (29/17) as her first higher level bat and hits it well. But I think before the spring she probably should move up to a -11. I'm considering a used x19 lxt (29/18) or a 2020 CF Zen (29/18). Is there a noticeable difference assuming both are in good condition...

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