by aparent » Sun Oct 04, 2015 7:08 pm
I've watched a bunch of Phil's stuff, never found it very useful. Seems like he is just a bucket dad like the rest of us who got lucky with his DD doing pretty well and decided to become a coach. I think he misinterprets a lot of things and just teaches them slightly wrong. He talks about Forearm Fire and then demonstrates a motion that is not part of a pitch, he talks about there being a Throw Zone as if there is a window where the pitch can be released and still hit a spot, he never talks about the contact with the rear hip you see in all the great pitchers and he talks about how the riseball is an ineffective pitch. At least he doesn't recommend wrist flips and tell the girls to point their elbow at the catcher though so he is a step above total pitching stupidity.
Rich Balswick has a couple of videos on his site that lay a much better foundation as do a lot of the Bill Hillhouse videos, Rita Lynn Gilman has a lot of good info and Discuss Fastpitch has a good pitching forum. Those resources are far better than Fastpitch Power as far as internet pitching info goes.
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aparent on Sun Oct 04, 2015 9:11 pm, edited 1 time in total.