Shoulder/trunk rotation

[2pitchmom]

Good Morning looking for some advise for my daughter. We have been working on her drive for several months. I think she's finally getting the hang of it with continued work and strength training. so now it's time to work on the next problem.. she really rotates her shoulders and trunk when delivering the ball I have couple examples full pitch and one I have her throwing into her glove, which looks pretty good to me, but what are some other drills that you could recommend for her to help with this. She really still has a hard time feeling her body. Thank you everyone for taking a look!









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[RADcatchers]

Feeling body question~
What other type of exercising or Sports might she do?

 

[ninthgirl]

No advice but following because my pitcher also has a hard time feeling her body. It seems to have gotten somewhat better over time, but then she'll pop up with comments like, "Hey, I finally figured out what everyone's been saying when they say 'drive with your back leg,' I have just been stepping hard with my front!"

 

[2pitchmom]

Feeling body question~
What other type of exercising or Sports might she do?

Just a strength training program.


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[RADcatchers]

We learn motor skills by applying ourselves to movement.
Specific movements are included in that learning process.
Some movements become habit that we aren't necessarily thinking of doing they just happen that way. So we need to learn a process how to identify when we need to direct our body.

There will probably be other posters to offer pitching specific drills. I will leave them to offer those suggestions.

My suggestion is that there are things that are outside of pitching mechanics themselves that can help start learning the use of our body. Even things like simple dance routines can help learn orientation of limbs torso tushie shoulders arms Etc.

Sometimes the same routine like always focusing on pitching movements can tend to become a habit or have normalized muscle memory which when that needs to grow we need to break Beyond the Comfort level so to speak.
My suggestion is Branch Out find some other activities to have fun with to learn motor skills!
= Learn how to direct the body to do what we want it to do!


Enjoy!

 

[jdint]

Did a dog take the 2nd video? Form looks pretty good to me. Judging from the audio, sounds like she has good speed.

 

[2pitchmom]

Did a dog take the 2nd video? Form looks pretty good to me. Judging from the audio, sounds like she has good speed.

LOL the dog huffing in the background ‍‍ speed 56-58.


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[Jay Bolden]

Good Morning looking for some advise for my daughter. We have been working on her drive for several months. I think she's finally getting the hang of it with continued work and strength training. so now it's time to work on the next problem.. she really rotates her shoulders and trunk when delivering the ball I have couple examples full pitch and one I have her throwing into her glove, which looks pretty good to me, but what are some other drills that you could recommend for her to help with this. She really still has a hard time feeling her body. Thank you everyone for taking a look!









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There is some over rotation there. When I have kids like her we try to focus on the sequence of how to decelerate as well. You'll see her release is a tad late because of the over rotation/lack of deceleration in the hips and torso. Core work and stability will help her. I do a couple of feeling drills so they can feel the hip and torso stick. Feel free to send me a DM and I will send you a couple videos of some drills I use to help my kids with trunk and torso control.