Testimonials

TESTIMONIALS

Our daughter expressed interest in pitching when she was 10 years old. After it became clear that she was motivated to improve, we sought out an instructor and were lucky enough to find Coach Perlotto. Our daughter will soon be 14 and has thrived under George's instruction and guidance. She still enjoys and looks forward to her weekly lessons. As a pitcher, she has improved beyond our expectations. George is an excellent instructor who is dedicated to his students and truly cares about them as people.

- Steve and Michele Pallotti

"My two daughters, Kelsey and Whitney Tuthill are both students of Fastpitch Dynamics. George Perlotto was recommended to us when we were looking for an instructor who could help advance them beyond where they were.

With George, we definitely accomplished that and a lot more. Not only did George teach Kelsey and Whitney advanced pitching techniques, he did everything in his power to prepare, not only Kelsey and Whitney, but our whole family about what it takes to play at the college level. I’m not sure that we all believed what he was telling us in the beginning, but now that both kids are playing in college, there’s no doubt that his advice was timely and relevant.

Another thing that George does for all of his students is that he takes on the whole student, including the whole family. This means that it’s not just about pitching lessons. He cares deeply about each student and their families. He goes to high school games to watch. Through the years he has developed a large list of college coaches with whom he keeps in touch. As his students get to the point where they are ready to start looking at colleges where they might want to play, he makes those contacts, and does everything in his power to get his students seen by the schools they might be interested in.

In our case Kelsey was convinced that she wanted to go to school as far away from home as possible, so she didn’t look at nearby schools that were interested in her. In addition, she had chosen a major that was not offered at a lot of schools. During this process, George made a connection with the coach at Division III Emerson College, which had her major. Also during this time she applied to Division III The University of Redlands in California. She made up her mind that she wanted to go there, but the coach couldn’t promise her a spot on her team because she hadn’t seen Kelsey play. The coach at Emerson had seen her, and made it clear that he wanted her to play for him. Three days before the deadline to commit to a school, Kelsey decided that playing was very important to her, so she chose Emerson. In 2009 Emerson won the GNAC conference. Kelsey’s pitching record was 21-7, with a 1.26 ERA, and a .333 batting average. Kelsey was Conference Pitcher of the Year; Conference Rookie of the Year; GNAC Tournament MVP; Emerson College Spring Sports MVP, and three-time GNAC Pitcher of the Week. Without George, Phil McElroy not have ever heard about Kelsey, and none of these things might have happened.

Whitney recently was having trouble throwing her screwball with as much velocity as she would like. George suggested she take her follow-through step at a 45 degree angle, instead of a 90 degree angle. This immediately generated three more miles per hour on this pitch. After that lesson, when we got in the car, Whitney looked at me and said “That man’s a genius!”

Whitney, by the way, wasn’t sure she wanted to play in college, so she made sure that she got into the academic school that she wanted. Once she did that, she then tried to walk onto her school’s softball team. She’s now a freshman member of the Division I Boston University Softball Team, and may have a pretty good chance to pitch as a freshman."

Thank you, George. - Mike Tuthill

"George teaches that anything is possible when you visualize your goals and work tirelessly towards them. He applies this philosophy to softball while using tools that provide instant feedback and assist pitchers master the techniques required to pitch at the college level. The training studio allows George to work with his students one-on-one in a teaching environment and he uses many tools to help the student learn the “feel” of the pitches required at each level. I would highly recommend George Perlotto to any softball pitcher motivated to improve their game and learn the Fastpitch Dynamics that make a softball move."