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My daughter currently has been working on pitching for apx 2+ years. She started with drills only for her first year when she was 8 playing on the 10u team. Last year she went with a common instructor for the organization. Very nice lady, experienced, college coach and well priced. My daughter really worked hard all year on her fastball and the drills to go with it. She dabbled in change ups towards the end of the summer with the instructor. I was a little concerned because she had my daughter trying different grips for the change. Knowing my daughter she loved changing things around to find her own thing, but I saw small issues with it, again, knowing my daughter.
This year we started again with the same instructor and before we started I told my daughter I wanted her to really work on corners, locating and one grip for her change (back hand flip). I found a good drill on You Tube that we practiced in the basement for it. She would do the arm motion from close and drop the ball in a bucket. Slowly she would move back until her arm speed increased. Her issues was that she would turn her hand to late causing her to role over the ball, kinda like a drop. She did this because she was taught the slip change first and really could not master it. Now, enter this drill. She does about 150 balls a night for 3 weeks and she is good to go! Speed is slow, height is good, dad is happy, daughter is happy. I just hijacked my own thread.
Back to the question. Over the last two years she has attended lots of different clinics and seen plenty of other instructors. In the process I have gathered a few names of different instructors that have come with high praise from other pitchers of all ages. I feel like I want to shop the market but does doing that hurt my daughters progress? Will different instructors that change her mechanics make it worse for my daughter? Naturally I want whats best for her, not me.
This year we started again with the same instructor and before we started I told my daughter I wanted her to really work on corners, locating and one grip for her change (back hand flip). I found a good drill on You Tube that we practiced in the basement for it. She would do the arm motion from close and drop the ball in a bucket. Slowly she would move back until her arm speed increased. Her issues was that she would turn her hand to late causing her to role over the ball, kinda like a drop. She did this because she was taught the slip change first and really could not master it. Now, enter this drill. She does about 150 balls a night for 3 weeks and she is good to go! Speed is slow, height is good, dad is happy, daughter is happy. I just hijacked my own thread.
Back to the question. Over the last two years she has attended lots of different clinics and seen plenty of other instructors. In the process I have gathered a few names of different instructors that have come with high praise from other pitchers of all ages. I feel like I want to shop the market but does doing that hurt my daughters progress? Will different instructors that change her mechanics make it worse for my daughter? Naturally I want whats best for her, not me.