I don't have the pro glider, but was looking to get one. coachbob, was it easy for the girls to 'cheat' and still send the balls up the middle? If I did get it, I would have seen myself having the girls use it, after instruction, largely unsupervised because of the feedback that the bat claims...
Chris, thanks for your input. They are interesting and insightful.
But, this girl doesn't have varus knees. She has pretty neutral feet supination too. She walks as such because she has monster thighs. Lol. This girl competes in powerlifting in her free time and squats 242lbs. She's a beast...
Yeah I think so too.
I have been using more cues that have her drive more of her weight into the front hip, but her rear foot/leg remains as such. I don't see anything broken, just that its not something I see other good hitters do, and I am not sure if I should be explicitly changing it.
Chris, that's an interesting question. She walks || but with her feet further apart than usual. She walks as if there's something in between her thighs.
Here's something that might interest you guys.
They start referring to an action called 'brushing' at around 12:59. It carries on with slow motion videos of Ueno. It is quite an old video, and Ueno must've been only 23 or 24 then.
I have been having her focus on weight transfer during the loading phase and swing phase, finding the correct slot with her rear elbow (I do quite a bit of the enforcer drill), and keeping both elbows equidistant during the swing (and maintaining the box/triangle) in her arms.
Some of the...
Hi, I work with national softballers where i'm from and this is one of the girls I work with.
Here is where she's at currently: http://youtu.be/smO-vI-PPKI
If anyone's interested, this is where she was just a couple of months back.
Her main coaches subscribe to the Japanese style of batting...
Hi, i'm new but i was just watching the wcws between arizona and tenn 2 days back and cheri kempf just mentioned off the top of her head that pitchers should aim for a 45-52 degree hip angle
hope it helps