hittingcenter51
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Registered: 09/25/09
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Michelle
I have a very talented 14 year old that has pitched all her life and has been a very dominating pitcher at the 16 and 18U levels for the past two years. We attended you camp in Chicago two years ago and something clicked that has made all the difference. It was your teaching us of using the "wall" with the front leg and and keeping the hips from over rotating, staying back and forming a nice big arc. The way I practice this with my daughter is by calling it Knee to knee, bring the front of knee of the back leg up to the back of the knee of the front leg and staying in line and this keeps from over rotating. Working on this alone increased her speed consistantly by 5 miles an hour the first winter. If you watch all the best pitchers in the Pros and college, they all do this, yet almost all younger girls are still useing the open and close meathod and over rotating.
To my question, we have been woring on rotation with the use of a Revfire ball, even though my daughter can throw all of the movement pitches well, and they work most of the time; we do not seem to be improving with the rotational count. We are medium at best, we want to really work on this this side of her game and nothing seems to help. I read an article the other day that said rotation was accomplished more from pressure applied to the grip than from wrist snap. Do you agree with this, we have not been concentrating on the finger pressure and grips but more the wrist snaps and we are not improving. Would love your ideas regarding this. She is only a freshman, and I know that the rotational count in getting big in SPARC testing for pitchers.
Thanks
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