Pitching videos.

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Originally Posted by SC Ump

They are good and we have passed the links around our local association. Thanks for sharing.

One thing I would like to see more of, and learn more about, is a variation on the crow hop here. In the associated link, they show a style where the pitcher has his hands together, his feet leave the pitching plate and replant, his hands separate and he goes straight into the windmill. The base umpire is instructed to focus on the point of the feet at the time the hands separate for determining a crow hop.

What I think is not specified is the following situation which I see often in local NFHS ball: the pitcher has her pivot foot on the pitching plate, she separates her hands and moves her pitching arm back past the hip, her pivot foot drags forward. Then, as her arm start moving forward into the windmill, she replants her pivot foot and pushes off from that new spot several feet closer to the batter.

My previous understanding of the second situation was that it too was a crow hop. With my new understanding that for a crow hop it "only matters" where the pivot foot is at the time the hands separate, I am now calling it differently than I have over the last x years. I would just like further confirmation that I am understanding it correctly.

Any thoughts?

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hmnmm that sound crow hoppish to me, I wish you could find a video showing what you mean. I've never heard it phrased that way.