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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]12-year-old DD started pitching last year and seems to have some ability. Her coach suggested she start doing private lessons. But between her travel practices and other child’s activities we have no more bandwidth for another thing after school. (We did reach out to the coach he recommended who was 45 min away, cost $90 a lesson and was only free around 430pm- how do people do this?!?!)
Are there things she can be doing at home to improve? [/quote]

The most successful softball pitchers have buckets of balls, a tarp with a strike zone painted on it, and worn-away grass from throwing 100 pitches every day in their back yard.

That said, proper instruction is critical. Not just technique — are you going to do internal rotation or Hello Elbow? (I recommend IR). This could have an effect on arm and elbow health long time. An instructor will also help teach different kinds of pitches (drop curve, an effective change up, screwball, rise)…

An instructor can also help ensure bad habits aren’t acquired, especially those that involve illegal pitches (for example, stepping on the plate without the hands separated, separating the hands more than once, replanting, landing wide of the two-foot lane, having the hand outside the elbow on release). I call a lot of 14U games and can already see pitchers who have bad and illegal habits that will get them in trouble later.

Long story short, if your kid has the passion, you will know it because they will be throwing every day and want to throw every day. The only way they will rise to the top is work and instruction. [/quote]

Not sure a good pitching coach will always keep a girl from stepping on the mound with her hands together. I watch a lot of softball games, including ones with decently high level, experienced pitchers and I can't tell you how many girls I've seen called for that one...

But to be fair there are lots of other ways to illegal pitch that a good pitching coach will keep girls away from. And more importantly a good pitching coach will teach the girls to stay stacked, with good front side resistance, and not to steer the ball.[/quote]

What softball are you watching where there is a "mound"?[/quote]

Oh come on. PP before me called the rubber a "plate." I've heard circle and mound used interchangably more times than I can count.[/quote]

The proper term is “pitching plate.”

Not rubber. Not mound. But “pitching plate.”

See USA Chapter 2, Section 3, subsection F. To wit: “The pitcher’s plate shall be of rubber or wood, 24 inches long and six inches wide …”[/quote]

I admit, I haven't read all of the USA rulebook. I mean, I'm just a parent here.

Good on you, though.[/quote]

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