Just curious, why don't more younger kids adopt the no stride wide stance hitting style. We always talk about separation, walking the hands from the front foot. Well for simplicity sake, wide stance and no stride already takes care of this, load the hands, front heel is already planted, there's your separation. It seems like most kids biggest problem is keeping their hands back as their front foot moves forward, no stride would resolve this.
No Stride, Wide Stance
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Daughter does a no stride swing.
She had a bad habit of lifting her stride foot way to high messing her timing off.
1 other player, I worked with for a no stride swing.
Do not think it is one size fits all.
She had a bad habit of lifting her stride foot way to high messing her timing off.
1 other player, I worked with for a no stride swing.
Do not think it is one size fits all.
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The problem is our bodies don't like to work that way. A golfer could just start at the top of the swing it would eliminate all the things the go wrong before that right?
This moment, that I think is an absolute must, is just that it is a split second that we pause in videos but it is just part of the larger dynamic of everything going on with your body.
I'm not the kinesiologist that can explain it to you so I won't try but hopefully others can help.
Most I've seen is an up then down front foot that works consistently well...with today's technology a big girl can do pretty good without striding but there is probably a reason you don't see many elite hitters MLB or Fastpitch swing that way.
This moment, that I think is an absolute must, is just that it is a split second that we pause in videos but it is just part of the larger dynamic of everything going on with your body.
I'm not the kinesiologist that can explain it to you so I won't try but hopefully others can help.
Most I've seen is an up then down front foot that works consistently well...with today's technology a big girl can do pretty good without striding but there is probably a reason you don't see many elite hitters MLB or Fastpitch swing that way.
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Palouse is no stride I think.
(I am not even close to spelling his name right.)
(I am not even close to spelling his name right.)
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One of the most successful hitting coaches in our area teaches that to younger kids. You should see a 10 year olds face light up when during the first lesson he puts them in the 55 cage and they hit balls. I don't think they generate as much power and most begin to modify it around 12-14 but it works great for younger players. I think it simplifies the process.
I think they are just getting the bat in the way of the ball, probably wrong.
My daughter is 11 and hits the ball hard. Her swing is far from picture perfect, but she generates a ton of bat speed with the "no stride" approach. I tried to introduce a step or stride in her swing, but it completely screwed up her sequence and timing. Obviously this approach works for most, but for mine it helped with teaching separation. I might introduce the step again at some point, but if she keeps hitting the way she is now, I may not.
Did you give her time to figure out how to make a stride work for her swing, or just have her try it a few times, and give up when she had some timing issues?
shaker1
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I like the no stride. Check out Daniel Murphy. One if the best hitters baseball. We try to switch it up, if she's having trouble getting her timing on a certain pitcher, she takes the stride out. As long as she is getting the hip turned in (coiling ) it's all good.
We went at it the whole winter.. I would try it again this off season, but I am not sure how much it would benefit her. I think I will keep focusing on hip engagement and turning the barrel.
Like Quincy said above, "one size doesn't fit all".
BTW, anyone know any good drills or cues for turning the barrell?
