My son is in 8u. We just started practice about 3 weeks ago for LL - machine pitch. Last week he started complaining about a soreness in his throwing arm.
I've kept things light, mainly working on confidence catching the ball. Today, I was trying to get him to work on the hand over ball start position and he did about ten. He went back to loading from his ear.
I asked him why he wasn't doing the drill and he said it hurt too much. But cocking it from his ear did not hurt.
He says proper mechanics hurt the most and the ear loading mechanics hurt only a little. The soreness is up and down the arm on the inside.
He hasn't reported soreness in BP or when hanging from the monkey bars.
So far I've put this down to conditioning, but should I have it examined? Or should I try resting him some more?
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