It's there. I made one "perfect" swing in my life on a golf course. The aggravation was in not being able to repeat it.
lol, and how bad did your shoulder hurt the next day? No warmup and not in hard throwing shape...probably a bit sore.
Yup. It's all "ultimate outcome" coaching now. Not me. I teach all my kids to swing for contact and we win a lot of games that way. I'm good with station to station ball. At this age there aren't many teams out there that can make good catch + throw more than 70% of the time.
It's kids that have grown up on Hit Trax. My son does it, and I hate it. All he cares about is EV and LA. When his EV is >65 and LA >25 he hits a HR. That's all he cares about. And he hits bombs, but then every kid on the team tries to do that and we end up with a ton of K's. So I tell em to level it out and get behind the ball, not try to uppercut everything.
My seats at Petco were right by the Padres 'pen. I got to talk to all those guys as they left the pen.
My freshman year I went up against a dude who got drafted. Low to mid 90’s fastball.
I shot a 26 the last time I got hammered and played putt-putt in the rain.
Oh yeah I don't even let the kids use any of those tracker balls to see spin rate. We are still too young to get to any breaking pitches and I'm just trying to get the ball rolling out of their fingers. At 10u it's a struggle just to stop leading with the pinkie. But pitching is all about getting them to throw as hard as they can and then dialing in the accuracy. Too many want to get up and aim, and that's how you end up throwing instead of pitching.
Oh yeah I don't even let the kids use any of those tracker balls to see spin rate. We are still too young to get to any breaking pitches and I'm just trying to get the ball rolling out of their fingers. At 10u it's a struggle just to stop leading with the pinkie. But pitching is all about getting them to throw as hard as they can and then dialing in the accuracy. Too many want to get up and aim, and that's how you end up throwing instead of pitching.
Oh yeah I don't even let the kids use any of those tracker balls to see spin rate. We are still too young to get to any breaking pitches and I'm just trying to get the ball rolling out of their fingers. At 10u it's a struggle just to stop leading with the pinkie. But pitching is all about getting them to throw as hard as they can and then dialing in the accuracy. Too many want to get up and aim, and that's how you end up throwing instead of pitching.
Nope. During tryouts I have my assistants grade the kids and I watch/listen to the parents. Any of the overbearing ones just simply don't make the team. I've had at least 4 kids who seemed like good kids and were graded highly that I didn't offer just because I don't want their toxic parents. I had one my first year, and never again. That BS can ruin the kid, ruin the team, and drive good parents away.
Every season at the coaches meetings they have a local guy here who has all the fancy computer gear to analyze swing motion (think of the Sports Science show type stuff) come up and speak. And every year he talks individually with each coach after the meeting to get them to bring their kids up. Every year I tell him "Hey bud, when my kids have hair under their arms I'll worry about their swing mechanics but for now I just want them to stay back and push the bat". At this point he is expecting it and it goes easy, but when he was trying to get me to bring my kids at 8u up there I just shook my head.
