Does she have a change up? That can help set her apart if she needs to work on her fastball....
12yo Pitching Eval
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Does she have a change up? That can help set her apart if she needs to work on her fastball....
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Yes she does. Drops about 15-20 MPH from the FB. The issue is she throws all her pitches with the same form. We are working on IR now but she keeps reflexing back to stiff arm.
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One drill I find effective with pitchers that have trouble keeping the arm flexed is to focus on making small circumference ball circles. If she makes small circles she will have to keep her arm flexed. Have her initial focus be more on the ball itself and less on the arm. If she does it right the 'whip' feel coming into release will become obvious.
"Arm like noodle" is a good thing.
"Long and loose"
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Little update, so I found a new pitching coach for my daughter in our area and she has had two lessons so far. They are Tincher certified the woman who runs the facility has trained multiple young women, one of which is now coaching. My daughter has always been excited about pitching but she is giddy now after the lessons. I will try to video her over the next several days. We own a lot to our original coach but she has improved her mechanics tremendously in just two days. Now she just needs 200 or so more lessons and 10k pitches to practice 
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Dd has been working on a few things. Still needs to clean up a few things, glove arm control, right foot drag and stacking a bit more but she has come a long way in a short time.
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I watched that first video again and she could very well get called for an illegal pitch for not bringing the ball and the glove together when she comes set. In general, the ball needs to be in the glove when she grips the ball to hide her grip anyway. It doesn't seem like she is doing it in the last gif so maybe it isn't an issue anymore.
It also looks like she is starting back instead of stepping back which is probably a good thing. As long as the NCAA doesn't allow stepping back there are going to certain tournaments that will not allow it.
It also looks like she is starting back instead of stepping back which is probably a good thing. As long as the NCAA doesn't allow stepping back there are going to certain tournaments that will not allow it.
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The first video.
