Pitch, Please

Thanks to all the parents! I feel your pain because I too have the kids that don’t listen. 😆

Any one else’s child?! ⚾️🤪 #realhousewivesofselectball #travelbaseball #selectbaseball #baseball #baseballmoms #littleleague #baseballmom #selectball #sportparents #travelball

Always know where the ball is😆😆😆

Yes!!!

Wrist flicks 🥎 I see a lot of pitchers transitioning to IR who struggle with the concept of snapping/flicking the wrist. Yes; you still snap!!! Understanding forearm pronation & bicep deceleration is huge when transitioning and leveling up your release 💯 I’d love to help guide you inside my DR3Fastpitch APP for academy members 📲 dr3fastpitch.com

Mechanics are the FOUNDATION to success. Master them🔒 I saw a ton of pitching styles this Summer at the Pro level. Mechanics from @yeahh_jo_ @floridavibesb are clean! Some major points ⬇️ Load - Knee over toe, nose over knee, pushing from BOTH legs to launch Reach- Chest/shoulders forward, arms reaching toward the catcher, flamingo leg HIGH, knees forward Stacked K- Firm front side, ball at 12 O’clock, arm bent

Coach Sam discusses the importance of having a good start off the mound as a softball pitcher. Check out more great drills from Coach Sam on our website! https://www.hitrunsteal.com/blogs/news #softball #softballpitcher #softballplayer #softballmom #softballlife

Good food for thought

There are girls that would be able to field a ball while in a headstand- but there’s not a ton of girls that can make it at the highest level while practicing bad self-talk or not being about to control what’s going on inside of them. These kids have a lot of softball on their schedules- make sure there’s time inside those practices for things like this 🖤 More inside Defense Club.

I am so proud of all of my girls! Way too many great things for a video! 1st, congrats to the 16u and 10u Storm softball teams for coming out tournament champs!!! Teams played hard and fought through the cold all weekend. Overall, we had 109 strikeouts this weekend, only 47 walks and a strike percentage of 58%!!! Congrats to Timberly on her perfect game for the 12u Storm on Saturday! Congrats to Keagan on her no hitter tossed for the 10u Storm in their championship game (just shy of a perfect game)! My group of hitters averaged . 750, .541, .500, .500 and .429! Outstanding job girls! Keep working hard!

Monica Abbotts form is perfection😘

Here are some thoughts from a Monica Abbott email I received this week…

Monica Abbott
Lets Talk Pitching
Faraimo, Abbott, Fouts World Games
2022

Over the last weekend I was able to watch so much College softball! YAY! 🧡… it’s Awesome! So, I thought, 👋 wouldn’t it be fun 🤩, to talk about some of my observations:

The best and the most competitive pitchers in college softball right now have ~2 dominant pitches. That’s right, just 2!! not 5, not 7, not variations of everything 2 dominant pitches.
Big Lesson Here: Simplify to Grow
Usually they have a third pitch that is well it’s not quite as consistent, but they continue to use it… let’s call it the “complimentary” pitch. What does that mean exactly? … it means it has it’s good days and “so-so days 😬” days but when used correctly it makes the two dominant pitches look a million times better!! Whether, it’s a good day or a so-so day the complimentary pitch improves the quality of the “dominant pitches. ✅. Got it? It compliments my two dominant pitches: by changing eye line, direction, speed or giving the wrist a change movement patterns and… on a rare day… it just might steal the show.
Pitching is like real estate… location location location! And the pitchers that are struggling, giving up hard hits, are missing that. Sure 🤷‍♀️ we all get away with a missed spot here and there 🤫, that’s normal. But if you consistently are missing locations it’ll catch up to you. So Consistentcy matters not just in movement but in intention and in location.
🎶So Laaaaddies, “Yea”🎶 Laaaddies, “Yea” the Lesson here : in your practices, focus intentionally throwing to your location.
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Curve Ball!

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PO Box 7351
Spreckels CA
USA

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