by DD's Catcher » Fri Jul 10, 2009 1:57 pm
hammer, the 1st pic looks to be some pretty awesome leg kick and drive from #1! my 12u has very long legs and we work on that too! i think it is a great pic.
pic #2 does look like a replant or maybe really slow armwhip or maybe the pic is taken out of context? my dghtr did a replant. she even had a drag-line which proved she wasn't airborn or hopping. we occasionally caught S##t from opposing coaches which ultimately had blue closely spying my #1. The attention garnered from the opposition and blue was about 50% of the time. everytime they brought up the word crow hop or replant, it was a pain in the a$$ (and it pissed me off, too!). i video'd my kid and played it back in slow-mo. it was very evident that she replanted and released with a dragfoot push from about 2 feet off of the pitching plate. spotting it was the easy part, lol. fixing it was a whole other story. it took almost a year of, literally, sweat and TEARS (our sweat/her tears, she swore and beleived she was doing nothing illegal!) to fix that replant. ever since we fixed 'the hitch', we receive no negative notice of our mechanics, ever!
my response, in no way, is meant to take away from hammer or #1's luster. i was not even going to post until i saw the 2nd pic. that 2nd pic brought back a flood of nightmares for me. hammer can you post a video of #1?