from what i understand a drag bunt is the same as what is known as a "bunt-for-base-hit" or "sneaky bunt". the idea is to bunt at the last second and surprise the defense, especially if the corners are playing back.
if your dd is right handed, you drop the right foot back as your bunting to get...
i will make an attempt to help. i am not a professional instructor, but am a softball player so take it for what it's worth. the videos worked fine with me, using firefox and downloading to windows media player.
my humble advice, and i will admit my bias is more of a rotational one (p-c-r)...
thanks so much jimginas for your encouragement! I believe practice makes permanent and perfect practice makes perfect, tho I agree its hard to be perfect :)
I personally lock my front leg for both hitting and pitching. my hitting coach doesn't like it tho. I guess some coaches believe when you...
my coach has always said the reason for not having a stiff front leg is it is not athletic. athletes don't lock their legs, but remain flexible.
otoh, other coaches have said if you have a stiff front leg your torso is less likely to move up and down, so your head and eyes don't move then. a...
ok thank you! I also want to read the physics of baseball by adair and charley lau's book. but mankin says a bat cannot whip like a towel, so he pans adair for saying that when adair says you take the knob to the ball linearly then slow up the hands to create whip. mankin prefers the double...
That's would be terrific! I have already read jack mankin's and chris o'leary's sites and have seen a lot of o'leary's clips and pics. I like the idea of rotational mechanics except I don't like the idea of (continuing to) rotate my arms during extension so I pull the ball. I want to extend back...
hands inside the ball
heel down, heel up (or foot down, foot up)
palm up, palm down
circular hand path
top hand torque
separation
quick to it, long through it
see it and hit it
hands back
wait on it
drive your legs
UCLA hole to China
snap your wrists
throw your hands forward
knob to the ball...
basically if the pump of the hands is causing a problem in your DD's swing, then it is a hitch and needs to be fixed. i used to pump once, then pause and swing or pause and reload and swing. however, if she has no problem in her swing, then it is a trigger, which is good. this came straight from...
absolutely! the longer the barrel, the higher the bat speed at the end of the bat and also at the sweet spot, since the end of a bat covers more distance than the knob during the same swing. this i the same reason why pitcher who are taller (and thus who have longer arms) throw with more speed...
thanks. i will find out for myself one of these days but the whip hit costs alot and my dad is not too mechanically inclined so he cant build one for me.
ok, maybe i should phrase my question in a different way:
as far as i can tell, rotational hitters rotate their torso into the pitch until contact while maintaining connection. then after contact they continue to rotate as they extend, but their extension is more towards left field. therefore...
does the whip hit and similar tools work with all hitting styles (rotational, linear, combinational, etc.)??
does it work if you pull the knob to the ball? does it work if you use connection and keep your hands in a CHP and the same distance from your back shoulder?
1) does anyone know if and when is it ok for a rotational hitter to disconnect her hands from her torso for a rotational hitting style? Immediately after contact is made? And when you extend your arms for a middle of the plate pitch, can I disconnect so my arms can extend straight back to the...