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RayR
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Instead of trying to answer your post - let me summarize:
The barrel should be turned rearward (for a righty the direction will somewhat away from where the second basemen plays). And again I will use this analogy. If you think of the very tip of the bat as the hand when you windmill - the path is very similar - meaning the hand goes around a circle to pitch....same as the tip of the bat goes around a circle.....
If I had mad GIF skills I would place a hand with a ball on the tip of Kemp's bat
Now - the Kemp clip shows a low pitch - but IMO that is the best way to practice with a tee - low and deep so you learn to do what Kemp is doing.
Here is the front view
And here is view of pitch up and out
Did the bat get launched any differently? I don't think it did - bat went rearward first....the hands did not push forward, they turned the barrel rearward first. They basically stayed in place for a split second so as to not get ahead of the hips, but the barrel was moving...
He does this efficiently by moving his back arm with the barrel turn - meaning as the barrel goes rearward the elbow comes down and forward as the front elbow elevates (all connected to start - a triangle).
And in the case of this thread and the OP's daughter - she starts to try and move the bat with the back elbow as the barrel gets turned in the wrong direction and the front elbow stays down forcing her to barrel to go around her rear hip which.....tada!.....makes front arm lengthen.....causing the arm bar everyone sees.....that's why I said fix the way the barrel is launched with the back arm and the front arm will fix itself...
The barrel should be turned rearward (for a righty the direction will somewhat away from where the second basemen plays). And again I will use this analogy. If you think of the very tip of the bat as the hand when you windmill - the path is very similar - meaning the hand goes around a circle to pitch....same as the tip of the bat goes around a circle.....
If I had mad GIF skills I would place a hand with a ball on the tip of Kemp's bat
Now - the Kemp clip shows a low pitch - but IMO that is the best way to practice with a tee - low and deep so you learn to do what Kemp is doing.
Here is the front view
And here is view of pitch up and out
Did the bat get launched any differently? I don't think it did - bat went rearward first....the hands did not push forward, they turned the barrel rearward first. They basically stayed in place for a split second so as to not get ahead of the hips, but the barrel was moving...
He does this efficiently by moving his back arm with the barrel turn - meaning as the barrel goes rearward the elbow comes down and forward as the front elbow elevates (all connected to start - a triangle).
And in the case of this thread and the OP's daughter - she starts to try and move the bat with the back elbow as the barrel gets turned in the wrong direction and the front elbow stays down forcing her to barrel to go around her rear hip which.....tada!.....makes front arm lengthen.....causing the arm bar everyone sees.....that's why I said fix the way the barrel is launched with the back arm and the front arm will fix itself...
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