No, I don't think I'm in over my head - admittedly the water doesn't have to get that deep for that to happen, but when it does, I listen and ask questions. You, on the other hand, lash out and make a fool of yourself and your argument. For example:
C77fastpitch wrote:Your dogmatic principles of pitching are ridiculous. I will explain it to you. I've work with some big name pitchers and bio-engineers , and I know what they say needs to be taught, and the sequence in which they need to be taught in. The junk that your talking about is great discussion for some on the internet, but doesn't hold water in the real world. Pitching, like any other position can be talked to death, but there are basic fundamentals regardless of what you think.
Let's take a step back, though, to a point that there is some general agreement on - young kids have the capacity to figure out a lot of the mechanics on their own through trial and error. If I was coaching an 8U team, I would spend a lot of hitting time at practice having hitting contests off a tee. Same thing with pitching, although I would begin with a restricted T or K motion, and (very) slowly build from there.
In the real world, there are a couple of problems with that approach, though:
- Some kids will go in the right direction, but some will just do the wrong thing even harder and exaggerate their flaws.
- Coaches are going to coach. There are a lot of misconceptions in rec ball softball and baseball, and coaches are going to impart them on all their players. Bad coaches, in fact, have a tendency to focus on their better players and ignore the ones that need the most instruction - this often leads to them effing up their good players' natural swings. I've seen that happen many times.
So, how do we improve this for the future generations? As PDad suggested in other of your threads, it would be through coaching the coaches. Before you can do that, a legitimate set of "best practices" needs to be agreed upon. You keep referring to them, but haven't provided much insight on what you think they are.