I'm a former softball player, parent of a 10 year old softball player, and unofficially helping coach my daughter's 10U travel team. One of my biggest annoyances that I see as a coach is young players not being taught the proper way to throw a softball. It drives me nuts to see girls, year after year, not being corrected and taught how to fix poor throwing mechanics. I see coaches working so hard on all the other parts of the game but just glazing over bad throwing techniques or even worse yelling at girls to throw the ball the right way but never instructing.
My point is this...I want to help girls throw accurate and hard. I am passionate about throwing correctly! So many errors are made from bad throws and games are lost due to over throws. I've looked all over YouTube for good drills for young girls and I can't find much. I am a big fan of throwing from one knee to isolate the arms, making an L shape with the throwing arm, and pointing with the glove. This drill seems to really help but I need more ideas to help these young girls!
If anyone has any drills to share or good advice, please do! Thanks
My point is this...I want to help girls throw accurate and hard. I am passionate about throwing correctly! So many errors are made from bad throws and games are lost due to over throws. I've looked all over YouTube for good drills for young girls and I can't find much. I am a big fan of throwing from one knee to isolate the arms, making an L shape with the throwing arm, and pointing with the glove. This drill seems to really help but I need more ideas to help these young girls!
If anyone has any drills to share or good advice, please do! Thanks