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First off, you'll learn the umps strike zone very soon in the game. If you can get really low, and I always trained my catchers to be as low as they could be, on their insteps, butt almost touching dirt, then a low pitch may come right to the mitt. If you have to cherry pick or turn the glove down, its probably a ball anyway, and you may be waisting your time trying to frame a pitch below the strike zone.
Sometimes I sits and I thinks, sometimes I just sits. Coachric
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| Posts: 1134 | Location: Orlando | Registered: December 22, 2005 |    |
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Soft hands.... that is the key to catching those tough pitches usually because you tense up, watch Brad Ausmus, especially he catches THE ROCKET aka Roger Clemens he just lets the ball come to him, no stabbing whats so ever!
~Come in clock to work, everyday I get bigger, stronger, faster and built to hurt~
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| Posts: 104 | Location: Orlando, FL, U.S.A | Registered: February 15, 2004 |    |
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strong wrists also help with framing the low pitch. just something i learned from getting really low. at about the 3rd inning my legs and hips are loose enough to touch my butt to the ground, but i rarely do becuase it takes away some "sway". i get really low but high enough to get to the wild pitchs. i only sway because when i call an inside pitch and its a foot outside then you have a hard time catching it. learn a good medium of how low you should get unless you can trust your pitchers to hit there spots consistenly then you can get as low as you want.
KayMart4 formerly known as Atl Bjs.
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| Posts: 320 | Location: Marietta | Registered: April 30, 2005 |    |
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