Also slowing it down can really help too. Depending on how they learn best, you can visually cue them, manually help them go through it, and/or verbally cue them. Or they start in this position and then immediately move their arm out to the side to fling it. What we see a lot of times is the throw coming from the elbow so that they are just throwing the ball straight down. This can still result in a fling but they are starting close to the position you want them to start. Next we generally work on bringing the arm up by the ear.Use a spot for the child to stand on so that they know where they should be and have a place to return to! From there you can start adding in pieces. This lets you see how they typically throw. Start with standing in front of the child and asking them to throw the ball to you. This blog is going to go over some of the ways we break down throwing to help kids begin to get a more mature overhand throwing pattern that involves stepping into the throw, and trunk rotation. Often it can come from the side of the body and it all comes from the arm, maybe the trunk moves around but it is not driving the movement. When some kids start to throw a ball purposefully it can be more of a fling. We’ll talk about underhand at another time. In addition, underhand and overhand require different processes. You are also going to want to consider the distance you are starting out at. You want to consider what ball you are asking the child to throw with. If the new student has had some previous experience in tossing, I'm sure it's a lot easier but in this one's case, before seeing me, she had never tossed a ball.Last week we talked about practicing catching in this post! Some of the same ideas are going to be applicable. I talked with another parent about this later in the evening and his son is 10 and plays LL, said that they always work on tossing at practice. And I realized, if she can't toss that ball over to her mom from 5' away, how is she going to pitch it? She's to keep working at home on it this week. But we made progress, and was able to keep her back leg on the ground by the end of class and get it over to her mom. I asked if her coach ever had them work on tossing. Her mother went on to say all of last year those scenarios happened on her team and every single time the ball was then fired right at the first baseman's face, who never caught it and the runners ran and ran. I had her try it again, she still couldn't do it. All the scenarios that call for it in a game. I then went on to explain the importance of being able to throw underhand. She would bend over, raise her back leg in the air, snap the ball with her elbow and drive her arm into her chest.-The ball went way outside of her mothers reach who was just 5' away. It was just her 2nd lesson so I thought we'd really work on tossing for a bit.Įven after I gave her a simple demonstration of just a low release toss off my fingers following trough toward the target. Wanted to share what happened in a lesson I night with a young 10yr old. When they can do this then they're ready to start learning the art of pitching. You'll catch them trying to pitch when doing this, tell them to stop, we're not pitching, we're throwing. Nice, relaxed and smooth overhand delivery is exactly the same as the underhand delivery-nice, relaxed and smooth. On the backside the ball will point up, release somewhere around mid thigh, and a finish with the palm down. A proper underhand throw is using body rhythm to assist in an arm whip that uses the elbow joint as a pivot point. But I will give it a shot and demo with a video. What is a proper underhand throw? Boardmember has explained too many times to count on this forum, he is the master and made me aware of its importance. Yet, time and time again we see fathers and mothers posting videos of their daughters starting the pitching journey asking what's wrong with their pitching technique when in reality they can't even throw underhand properly yet. Never in a million years would a PC try to teach a boy to pitch without first ensuring they could throw overhand properly. In fact, the amount of time it takes to teach a boy or girl to throw overhand properly is comparable to the time it take to learn how to throw underhand. Before learning to pitch a girl should first learn how to throw a ball underhand. I offer this video to help those learning to teach their DD how to pitch.
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