12 u hitting help.
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Cannonball
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The Tee is too far in front to get a good read on the swing. JMHO
I certainly do not advocate spinning on the toe/foot. But I also don't place much emphasis on the toe/foot. My focus is higher anatomically speaking. The term "result" seems correct to me. It is quite possible to have the "look" in the foot and get there correctly. But it is also possible to have the same "look" and get there incorrectly. It's the "getting there " that I am concerned about.
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For me it stops at coil. I don't think about "releasing" or "uncoil". I keep pulling back. Tightening the torsion spring......Launch....
IMO as soon as you start thinking about releasing the coil or uncoiling you are in trouble, you lost the SNF....
Some have said Bonds was close to a spinner/bug squishier.
Yee is spinner here:
Both were great hitters. So, spinning rear foot doesn't prove it's bad in all hitters.
That's why I don't place emphasis on the rear foot/toe.
Here is where the 'emphasis' should be 'placed':
Yee is spinner here:
Both were great hitters. So, spinning rear foot doesn't prove it's bad in all hitters.
That's why I don't place emphasis on the rear foot/toe.
Here is where the 'emphasis' should be 'placed':
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Some have said Bonds was close to a spinner/bug squishier.
Yee is spinner here:
That's why I don't place emphasis on the rear foot/toe.
Here is where the 'emphasis' should be 'placed':
Good Post.
Three people with a different "looking" rear foot. All have torsion spring. All have their weight back at launch. All have deep barrel turn. All shift and swing....
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I see that you are trying to get the thread back on track. So, you think that moving the tee back will change this hitters swing and take away the spinning, top down swing.
RD, I think that I am not smart enough to know how a hitter's swing looks if they are hitting off a tee when not in an optimum position for that tee. LOL Get that tee far enough out in front and the hitter will look like someone made them look silly with a change up.
- Dec 11, 2010
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Not only too far out front, it looks to me like she is getting stretched out to hit an outside changeup too far out front. Using a tee wrong is why so many people get the idea that telework isn't beneficial IMHO.
Saw a coach Jack up a whole team of good hitters with putting a tee way out front "to work on extension" last winter. That's pretty much what it looked like. And it caused all kinds of other problems. (Along with setting the Jugs machine on 70 mph at 30' "to improve bat speed". Long winter.)
Google fast pitch batters box for dimensions and use $4 worth of white tape to set up a batters box. The river is only 6" wide, the plate is only 17", how far away is she? Not very technical but might prevent problems before they even start.
Where is the ideal location to place the tee relative to the plate if just working on basic mechanics?
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Take a look at Eric's Post and the video of Stone's foot at the beginning of the video. (Go to 1:13 and look at where Stone's front foot is.)
Stone's video is taken exactly from the side. It appears that the video posted in the OP has the camera in forward and slightly angled back taking the video of the swing. So, if one projected where that video would be viewed if exactly from the side, that tee then would be out if front of where that front foot lands. For the various videos I've shared of my dd long ago, we typically had that tee somewhere in the toe - middle of the front foot. Even that might have been a little to far out in front.
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