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Do you think her hip is closing too soon? Kind of seems like it’s getting in the way of her arm to get to her release point. Just wanted to see if you taught their release point being on their hip or in front of their hips.
@@thecatielynne the hips need to rotate through before the hand comes through while the shoulders stay open. It’s called upper and lower body separation and it’s critical in every athletic movement in maintaining stacked posture and correct arm slot. When the hips are left too open it creates issues like drag foot collapse, poor posture and arm getting stuck behind the body
Very nice technique and releasing the ball. At the same spot as a fastball, the change up is a very unexpected pitch. Definitely would fool me as a batter.
What you are demonstrating and calling “slingshot” as what young pitchers are often taught to do is really not “Slingshot” which is an older but legitimate softball pitch. What you demonstrate is a “rocker-style” pitch. What you say about the windmill pitch is right and true. But you shouldn’t disparage an older style of pitching. It is true that the slingshot style is seldom used today, but calling what 7-9 year olds are taught “slingshot” is highly inaccurate. It is a rocker style.
So you can see her fatigue on the Last throw Basically, the moves up into the right on my screen They were all excellent throws Keep an eye on trapezius muscle stretches
@@NotJames37 well for starters its legal Now, but secondly, she’s not leaping. You can quite literally hear her toe dragging in this video so not sure why you felt the need to comment that
I don’t know much about softball but seems like I’ve heard the pitchers foot supposed to be in touch it’s the rubber when ball is released. Is that true?
Even done by the best, it doesn't move much. The amount of sidespin that can be put on the ball with hands up release is minimal. As I've watched it in slow mo, it appears more that the pitch is thrown across the body and outside to a righty (physically thrown sideways - and gravity causes to drop) and that acounts for most of the "movement". In other words, it's a fancy name for an outside pitch with a little spin.
Just recently started working with my 10 y/o daughter on this transition. Started off with “Hello Elbow” then learned about this, which they call it Internal Rotation. I also noticed that she was doing the whole “leaning forward” and was able to get her to not do it as much. We have a long way to go with her to get the mechanics more consistent, but I will say in 1 year’s time, she went from rainbow dropping the pitch into the strike zone to much more flat fastball-type pitches.
