Thread: Hitting

Diagnosing problems in a complex motor skill over the internet without at least seeing a video clip of the hitter in question is a matter of guessing. And yes, much of the advice on the net and down at the local batting cage does not stand up under scrutiny when checking said advice against slow motion video of the best in the world. If that makes you angry rather than sending you to video of the best in the world to help me learn what I don't understand then perhaps you should consider comparing everything you believe about swing mechanics to slow motion video of the best in the world?

My pet peeve is people who take money to teach kids things about hitting that a few minutes with slow motion video of the best in the world would show to be NOT what the best in the world actually do. No doubt you may have the resume you claim. I can find others with equal or better resumes who say you are wrong. Then I can find others with sparkling resumes who say all of you are wrong. So how's a dad or mom supposed to figure out who to believe? I suggest of course, comparing everything anyone says to slow motion video of the best in the world. It's not a perfect test for reasons that deserve a thread of their own, but it's the best truth detector the average parent or young hitter has.

Originally Posted by SoftballGirl#18

Hello I have been having success at the plate for almost three months but lately I have been told that I am "dipping my shoulder" and that is causing my shoulders to open wrong or to soon which is causing me to take my eyes off the ball. They countinue to tell me this but never tell me how to fix it. In other words I am confused about what I am doing wrong and I have no idea how to fix it. I would love for some advice please!

There is dipping the shoulder and then there is dipping the shoulder. If your dipping looks like 1 through 8 on this link, then no problem. Analysis

Here's a hitter doing something that many would call dipping the shoulder. Photo 11 of 16, Fastpitch

No need to get mean, thank you all for the help. Sorry I don't have the skills to put a video on here lol. That is probably very complicated. Agian thanks for all the input on my problem. I have elimination games tommarow so wish me luck.

Good luck and hopefully you learned something or at least found some interesting questions. I hope I didn't come across as mean. I do know I can sound arrogant and I'm making an effort on here to avoid that.

Thank you all sooo much for taking interest into my problem. You all really helped.

But whoever said Samantha Findlay could hit?

Watch Findlay's back foot in that clip....

I saw the foot come up, but I believe the right foot came up because of such a tremendous weight transfer to the left foot. Her travel coach told me when she was 11 that she was the best hitter he'd ever seen, and he had coached two Olympians and a 1000+ college players.

That's what I think too, but it still looks odd to me, that it goes backwards (towards the third base side of the box, not towards the catcher).