An Off-Season Drill to Increase Your
Pitching
Speed
Your Fastest Pitch Does NOT Have to be a Breaking
Pitch
Is It Wise to Use the Rollover Drop as Your
Fastest Pitch?
What Makes a Rise Ball
Rise?
Three Essentials for Fast
Pitches
What Pitch to Throw...and
When
Best Location - High or
Low?
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A FEW of the articles
for EXPERIENCED pitchers:
Better Speed off the Rubber - The
Body Lean
Make Your Breaking Pitches
Break Better
Throwing the Screw Ball - the
"Intimidator"
For Breaking Pitches
- Use a Striped Ball
MORE ARTICLES FOR EXPERIENCED
PITCHERS
Some selected topics
for INTERMEDIATE pitchers:
11-Years Old - With a Rise
Ball?
Increase the Speed of Your
Fastball
Avoid Pitching
Injuries - 10 Things NOT to
Do
Toe Drag...How to Correct the Leaping
Problem
MORE
ARTICLES FOR 1st AND 2nd YEAR PITCHERS
A few of the recommendations for
younger, BEGINNER pitchers:
The
Basics...Grip, Stride, Arm Rotation,
Release
How to Stop the "Leaning Forward"
Problem
How to Correct Low
Pitches
How to Correct High
Pitches
What is an "Average" Pitching
Speed?
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YOUNGER, BEGINNING PITCHERS
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ALL pitchers:
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the Coaches and Parents of female
softball pitchers.
New pitching
distance - 43-feet for 16u, 18u, & high schools
!
Most national softball
sanctioning organizations (ASA, USSSA, NAFA, etc.) and the
National Federation of High School Associations are moving the
softball pitching rubber in 2010 from the current 40 up to
43-feet for ages 15 & over.
Check for rules
applying to your games and
tournaments.
Click here for more information on the rule change
for high schools by the NFHS
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From time to time, pitchers from outside
of Colorado have requested to meet with Gerald and have a
one-on-one pitching evaluation when they visit Colorado.
For more information and details about a personal diagnostic
pitching evaluation session in the Denver
area, CLICK
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peel vs. rollover drop, rise ball techniques, avoiding the
crow hop, leaping vs. stepping-style pitching, selecting a
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