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• Pitching: Preliminaries
• Start of the Pitch
• The Delivery

• Crow Hop
• Leap

The Delivery

The Pitching Motion and Hand:

• The pitch must be delivered in a underhand motion

• Release and follow-through of the hand and wrist must be forward past the vertical line of the body.

• When released the ball, the hand must be below the hip and the wrist not farther from the body than the elbow.

• You must deliver the pitch from the throwing arm side. You may not deliver the pitch behind the back or between the legs.

The Pivot Foot

• Female Pushing off and dragging the pivot foot in contact with the ground is required
• Male Pushing off and dragging the pivot foot in contact with the ground or If both feet are in the air, the toes of the pivot foot must be pointed downward

Delivering The Pitch

• The pitcher may not use a rocker action 
• The pitcher may not continue to wind up after taking the forward step or after releasing the ball.
• The pitcher may not stop or reverse the forward motion
• The pitcher may not make more than one revolution of the arm in the windmill motion (anything less than two revolutions is legal)

Legal Drag

Legal Drag - Slow Motion

Legal Pitch

Behind The Back

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