Outfield Guidance and Training

"The stepping I mentioned earlier might feel difficult for beginners."

Sendou also considered many things, not using his own standards, but thinking more about how to break down the movements if his teammates couldn't do them.

He himself only heard Coach Nakanishi explain it once in middle school, and then after watching the Wildcats' Outfield during defensive practice, quickly complete an Outfield direct throw to Home Base for an out, Sendou was able to do it.

"But it doesn't matter, I will teach you a technique unique to Outfield players, called the Crow Hop."

"Like this, when catching the ball, hop, and at the same time as catching the ball, use your left foot to take a big stride forward, then after your body jumps up to the maximum extent with inertia, let your weight carry the ball instead of your wrist and arm strength, and swing your arm with inertia! Even if you fall afterwards, it doesn't matter, it won't affect the quality of the throw.

What you have to do is turn these into your body's instinct, and even with a bouncing ball, you have to throw quickly and accurately.

These are things that can be quickly achieved through training, so that even if your shoulder is weak in a real game, directly shutting out the opponent will become possible, if you are willing to work hard, you can do it in a short time!"

Perhaps for Sendou, this was just explaining something he didn't need any process for, something he could learn just by looking at it once, and even didn't understand why others couldn't do it, step by step, but for his teammates, it was like opening the door to another world.

"Then Eijun, you come and demonstrate!" Sendou said with a smile!

"If I remember correctly, this guy couldn't even play Outfield defense in the fall of his first year, although Seidou's Coach Kataoka couldn't teach it either, like the Crow Hop, a professional technique!" Sendou thought with ulterior motives, waiting to see a joke.

Why did he think so? Because Isashiki used a normal small step for his direct throw technique, not this very professional Crow Hop. The final stride of the Crow Hop is a big stride that turns the entire weight into assistance, which will greatly increase the ball speed. After all, Kataoka had not been in the professional world and had not undergone professional training. It can be said that after graduating from high school and entering the draft, basic techniques and postures must be corrected by real professionals.

Even those that cannot be corrected in a short time, such as batting stances, will be demoted to the second team.

This shows how useful Coach Nakanishi's techniques are. Many are techniques that cannot be understood without personally explaining the details, and even others cannot see the details.

Otherwise, Japan would not still be training a large number of people with various professional postures and some problems after so many years.

"Hahaha! Sendou, you already understand how outstanding I am, right!"

"That's right, looking forward to your 'performance'." There was no change in tone, except for his teammates who understood him, oh, except for Sawamura, that idiot, no one could possibly hear the hidden meaning, so only Sawamura thought Sendou really wanted to see his performance instead of knowing that Sendou just wanted to see a joke like the others.

The filming in the field was done with a camera that had been set up in advance, while this one was just placed by Sendou, so Sendou would be sorry for this high-pixel camera if he didn't find some fun ways to record it.

After Sawamura laughed, he ran over happily, and then...

"I'm going to throw!"

"Eh, whoosh!" Sawamura made an exaggerated strange sound, then...

"Big wild throw!"

"Oops!"

"Hahahaha!" Sendou was very happy!

"Sure enough, it didn't disappoint my expectations!" He muttered to himself, but he didn't want it to end so early.

"What a pity! Did you throw it like that on purpose to liven up the atmosphere?"

"Eh? That's right, that's right, please call me...!(Author, I really don't have Sawamura's talent for naming)" Sawamura said with a red face.

"What is that? I don't understand at all!"

"Watch me throw another ball!"

"Okay! Okay!" Sawamura quickly agreed.

"Eh, heave-ho!"

"..."

"Hahahaha! I can't take it anymore, that ball of yours was off by a good 5 meters! Just as I expected!"

Sendou finally couldn't hold back anymore, clutching his stomach as he squatted on the ground, laughing hysterically, as if he was trying to cough something up. He decided to end this farce, so he said the last sentence.

"Sendou, you guy... what did Wakaba call that just now?"

"Hahaha!" Sendou laughed even harder!

"Baka!" Even Wakaba said, supporting her forehead with one hand.

"Even Wakaba?"

"Hahaha...!" After Sendou had laughed enough, he finally got down to business!

"Alright, Eijun, you go practice by yourself over there. Wakaba, you three, form pairs and start training!"

"Baka, how can Sendou and the others form pairs of two? Can't you count? Or should I do it?" Sawamura immediately interjected.

"No need, your wild pitches will only reduce practice time. You throw by yourself, that way you can also train your stamina.

I'll go call A Shin over now, that way there will be enough people!" Sendou interrupted him directly.

"Then why did you ask him to come over just now?" Sawamura began to get angry!

"Oh, I just thought of it!"

"..."

"Haha, you are our ACE, so we must increase your training volume!" Sendou said, patting Sawamura's shoulder!

"Eh? Really! Yi ye! Yi ye! Yi ye! (These have no meaning, they are just interjections, I believe Sawamura said a lot of this in the original work!) Is that so?!" Sawamura said triumphantly upon hearing this obviously cute remark.

"Of course!"

"Yi ye! Yi ye! Yi ye! Is that so!!!"

"He's completely being played!" the others said in their hearts!

"He really is a cute and simple child!" Sendou thought in his heart, looking at how easily Sawamura was handled.

Seeing that he had obviously fooled one person, Sendou prepared to call A Shin.

But before that, he didn't forget to shatter someone's beautiful dream.

"Even someone as bad as you is worth teaching! Hahaha," Sendou said, then strode away.

"Like hell!" he retorted in his heart at the same time!

And Sawamura, maintaining his triumphant appearance, instantly petrified. (Imagine Sawamura joining the team, being fooled by Miyuki, and being petrified when Coach Kataoka discovered it! Hahaha!)

After A Shin came over, Sendou re-explained it to A Shin and demonstrated it, then let these four people form pairs. As for why A Shin, it's because a catcher's quick throwing technique is somewhat related to this Crow Hop!

Even Wakaba, whose shoulders were very weak, could easily complete a direct throw of more than 50 meters with the help of the Crow Hop and the correct technique, but the accuracy was still a bit of a problem, but the difference was very small. Sawamura was purely stupid, his ability to control his body was below average.

As time went on, they began to gain accuracy. This is actually not that difficult to practice. Of course, it is not something that can be fully mastered in a few days. There is still a long way to go to achieve no mistakes, unless it is a genius like Sendou or Amakusa who can throw tricky pitches without practice. This is what everyone has to go through.

At Sendou's request, they began to mix in alternating practice of a rebound, two rebounds, or even a rebound ball straight to Home Base, as well as normal non-rebound Home Base throws.

Sendou was simply enjoying how stupid someone could be.