OK Pitching Coaches...

[DThompson]

Here are some progressions of my 11 year old from this weekend. What are you seeing, both good and bad.

Thanks.

[DThompson]

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[DThompson]

.....my apologies, I do not know knpow to resize the pics.

[shake-n-bake]

Lots of good things.

I see some things that need work. The first would be what he's doing with his stride leg foot during his leg kick and stride. I'd having work on pointing the toe and overall being more deliberate. Very common to see kids hang that foot like its a club foot.

[CircleChange11]

1. Love the stride length and the foot path (takes side of his foot toward the catcher).

2. The pitching arm goes far above the rear shoulder, not good. Looks like this results because of bringing the ball back with a straight arm.

3. I like that he lands closed, but maybe too closed. It's hard to tell from the pictures, but his hips haven't rotated much before the arm starts to come through. What we'd like to see is belt buckle facing the catcher and the pitching shoulder still facing RF/1B.

I wouldn't advocate pointing the toe toward the catcher at foot land because then the tendency is tool open the hips far too early and lose the contributions of the lower body.

Video would be much better than pictures. I'm interested in seeing how he gets his throwing arm into position to release the ball.

Also good .... chest out (Power curve position of back/leg), and nose is over front knee.