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This is the catcher's up-down drill. The purpose of this drill is to teach a catcher to block balls efficiently that are essentially straight at them. Balls in the dirt directly at them. The idea is to replace your feet with your knees. So she will go down and as she does this you do not want to sit down in here. There will be space between the hamstrings and the calves. She stays fairly straight. If she has replaced her knees down here -- replaced her feet with her knees then she will have created an angle or kind of a bowl (ph) up over the ball. The idea is the ball hits here. She wants to make it ricochets of her and drive straight down in to the ground.
If she is up the ball hits and flies and ricochets out into areas that we don't want and allows for balls and runners to advance bases. So she is here the glove comes back in to between her knees. Her throwing hand is behind the glove, so to avoid injury and she is smothering the ball and trying to drag it back down towards home plate. Down.
Now I'll say ‘up’ and the idea is to hop back up into your stance; this is to help strengthen your legs, to help increase your mobility and agility. Down, up, down, up, down, up. What we like to do is time it for a minute. How many they can do in one minute. Now, again, the purpose of this is you have to maintain mechanics as your body fatigues. This will help strengthen your legs, help perfect your mechanics, your speed, agility, and quickness in blocking balls.
If you don't have the strength to go for a full minute is to start in 15 second increments. Go 15 seconds, maybe take 30 second brake, go 15 seconds again. As you strengthen you go 30 seconds as many as you can. Take a 30 second break, go 30 seconds again. Do this for three sets.
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