DD "growth spurt" causing mechanical issues?
Hi...First time posting but been a huge fan of this site for many years. Need some advice. My 12 y/o daughter has been pitching for a little over 3 years. Most of her time pitching has been just me and her with the occasional high school pitcher in our area helping her some when we needed the extra help. Just not a lot of options for PC in my area. So this site has been a valuable tool to us over the past 3 yrs. She has been very successful since we started this journey with above average velocity and control. My dd who has always been small for her age, has recently hit a growth spurt. This was something I've been waiting on for a few years with great anticipation. I assumed since she was throwing 50+mph as a small frame 12y/o that when she hit her growth spurt that would only increase. Man I was wrong. Obviously some of her mechanical flaws she had going on that I was just to ignorant to see or address with more importance, greatly worsened as she grew. I believe her main problem is her drag foot. She has a tendency to slightly turn her foot during the load.. I have always noticed this problem, just never spent a lot of time trying to correct because honestly I didnt see many negative results from it. Secondly, she is dragging her entire drive foot now causing severe lean in her body and extreme loss of control and velocity. Once again the foot drag has always been a "little" problem but never nothing that she wasnt able to overcome and still be successful while dragging her foot. im guessing now that her foot as grown 2 sizes in just a few months it has created a much bigger anchor and brake affecting her much more than before. Heres my problem...She is well aware of the problem but just cant seem to break the habit. She has been "shadow" pitching with a ball in hand just not releasing for the past 2 weeks 100-200 times a day. Her mechanics look great and much faster from open to close when shadow pitching. As soon as she is told to actually release the ball, it goes back to "anchor" with poor mechanics and control. To me, its a lack of body control and concentration and should be a simple fix since she can perform it correctly many times in a row until shes told to actually release the ball. Obviously its much more difficult for her to correct. I've even placed a bow net in front her her to pitch into so she doesn't worry about control and every time it goes back to foot drag during an actual pitch. any help or ideas of drills I may try to help cross this hurdle? I hoping someone may have experienced similar problems with their DD or student that may be willing to offer some advice. Thanks and I can email video of her to anyone that request to see what im dealing with. I just cant seem to figure out how to post video onto this site. Thanks in advance and all ideas are appreciated..Ill keep working on posting videos of my dd.
Hi...First time posting but been a huge fan of this site for many years. Need some advice. My 12 y/o daughter has been pitching for a little over 3 years. Most of her time pitching has been just me and her with the occasional high school pitcher in our area helping her some when we needed the extra help. Just not a lot of options for PC in my area. So this site has been a valuable tool to us over the past 3 yrs. She has been very successful since we started this journey with above average velocity and control. My dd who has always been small for her age, has recently hit a growth spurt. This was something I've been waiting on for a few years with great anticipation. I assumed since she was throwing 50+mph as a small frame 12y/o that when she hit her growth spurt that would only increase. Man I was wrong. Obviously some of her mechanical flaws she had going on that I was just to ignorant to see or address with more importance, greatly worsened as she grew. I believe her main problem is her drag foot. She has a tendency to slightly turn her foot during the load.. I have always noticed this problem, just never spent a lot of time trying to correct because honestly I didnt see many negative results from it. Secondly, she is dragging her entire drive foot now causing severe lean in her body and extreme loss of control and velocity. Once again the foot drag has always been a "little" problem but never nothing that she wasnt able to overcome and still be successful while dragging her foot. im guessing now that her foot as grown 2 sizes in just a few months it has created a much bigger anchor and brake affecting her much more than before. Heres my problem...She is well aware of the problem but just cant seem to break the habit. She has been "shadow" pitching with a ball in hand just not releasing for the past 2 weeks 100-200 times a day. Her mechanics look great and much faster from open to close when shadow pitching. As soon as she is told to actually release the ball, it goes back to "anchor" with poor mechanics and control. To me, its a lack of body control and concentration and should be a simple fix since she can perform it correctly many times in a row until shes told to actually release the ball. Obviously its much more difficult for her to correct. I've even placed a bow net in front her her to pitch into so she doesn't worry about control and every time it goes back to foot drag during an actual pitch. any help or ideas of drills I may try to help cross this hurdle? I hoping someone may have experienced similar problems with their DD or student that may be willing to offer some advice. Thanks and I can email video of her to anyone that request to see what im dealing with. I just cant seem to figure out how to post video onto this site. Thanks in advance and all ideas are appreciated..Ill keep working on posting videos of my dd.
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