What is your measurement/gauge?

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Yes, unfortunately I do think that happens; probably happens in TB as well. We had a young lady who can hit the heck out of the ball but who was told by her hs coach during try-outs that she needed to make several changes to her swing. The one change that I remember the best was to start rolling her wrists prior to contact.

She was a wreck mentally. We told her to nod and just keep doing what she had done for us all the previous summer, which had been tremendously effective.

She ended up hitting something like .360 for her hs.

We mostly tell our players that if they hit .300 we won't be looking to change their swings. But we are committed enough to the Carrier.Bustos system that we will strongly encourage players hitting less than .250 to make the change to that system.

I know coaches like this. I have even had a coach walk up to my daughters hitting coach and tell him he was teching the wrong stuff. And he teaches the exact same stuff as Leon Woods. The quote was " that stuff does not work at this level, only freak athletes can hit like that.......". And he went back telling his daughter to squish that bug or something similar.

Some people are just plain dumb and do not know it. I am not saying they lack intelligence, they are just knuckleheads who have the inability to take in information and process it in such a manner as to allow alternative veiw points to sink very far to their gray matter. And no amount of positve data or success will change that view point.

Ex: in this case my daughter hit for much more power and higher average than the poor girl in example(due to poor coaching on her father IMO) and the father has come up to me and basically said that if my DD would change to his way she would be doing much better.

People can only see what they want to see.

 

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ex: In this case my daughter hit for much more power and higher average than the poor girl in example(due to poor coaching on her father imo) and the father has come up to me and basically said that if my dd would change to his way she would be doing much better.

people can only see what they want to see.

for sure!

 

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I watched my poor college freshman daughter eaten alive by 8U parents. She learned a lot that day!

My oldest has been umpiring for the local rec league for a couple years. I have seen her being ripped on by some of the 8U parents yelling at her that she missed a call. She was 12 then. I was there, and the look I gave that parent was something else. Last year, a parent yelled at her saying she missed a call. She yelled back, "one call I won't miss is me calling the police if you don't shut-up!". I told her to be more polite about it in between innings. However, I also told her how proud I was of her when we got into the car to head home. A few games later, same team got her as the ump, the parent didn't say a word.

 

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IMO, every young lady who umpires should carry a roll of duct tape and a pair of handcuffs. Hang them on the backstop and make an announcement before the game starts that she's not afraid to use them... :yahoo:

 

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My oldest has been umpiring for the local rec league for a couple years. I have seen her being ripped on by some of the 8U parents yelling at her that she missed a call. She was 12 then. I was there, and the look I gave that parent was something else. Last year, a parent yelled at her saying she missed a call. She yelled back, "one call I won't miss is me calling the police if you don't shut-up!". I told her to be more polite about it in between innings. However, I also told her how proud I was of her when we got into the car to head home. A few games later, same team got her as the ump, the parent didn't say a word.

That Is AWSOME!!!! I will be stealing that line!!!!!!! No Doubt about it!!!

 

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It's fun to sit back and remember when DD's starting playing and how clumsy and nervous they would be. Looking at pictures when she had that what-am-i-doing look. They thought it was really cool to play under the lights at a 10U or 12U game.

Now, one's in college and one's in high school. They'd become so poised, balanced, and smooth. See the confidence level rise and them becoming solid players. The later pictures with the catch-me-if-you-can daring look when stealing.

Softball, and probably any sport, has really help my DD's grow into healthy and confident young women.