Appreciate the concept and advice on the end about throwing with half or no pivot. This relates to another concept you have about badly coaching new players by teaching them the “best/right” way to do something and limiting them. Like me telling new players to always pivot fully and step out on all their warm up throws. I’m so focused on getting them to develop one (admittedly useful) form, but I’m locking them into a long windup and their brain from thinking about a whole world of different releases and timings. They’ll have to unlearn my rule to add more throws later.
Yeah — actually I've recently experimented with teaching players right from the beginning that "the backhand isn't one throw, it's a lot of different throws". Personally I think people are capable of handling that idea right from the beginning. We'll see how it goes for my team...
Appreciate the concept and advice on the end about throwing with half or no pivot. This relates to another concept you have about badly coaching new players by teaching them the “best/right” way to do something and limiting them. Like me telling new players to always pivot fully and step out on all their warm up throws. I’m so focused on getting them to develop one (admittedly useful) form, but I’m locking them into a long windup and their brain from thinking about a whole world of different releases and timings. They’ll have to unlearn my rule to add more throws later.
Yeah — actually I've recently experimented with teaching players right from the beginning that "the backhand isn't one throw, it's a lot of different throws". Personally I think people are capable of handling that idea right from the beginning. We'll see how it goes for my team...