Need drill suggestions for getting full extension
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Cannonball
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A couple of questions. Do you think she needs extension to hit the ball? Was the ball already off the barell of the bat by the time you captured this still? Does her arms elongate a few frames after this capture?
This is actually a still from a video. I'll see if I can figure out how to post the video. But to answer your question, of course extension isn't needed to hit a ball. I just feel like it robs her of power.
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redhotcoach
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Just got home from first off season hitting session I had with dd. She wanted to just do drills and hit on a tee. Same things we worked on will get you the side effect of extension. We focused on her keeping her hands tight to her back shoulder and her back shoulder "delivering, throwing, launching" her hands out to center field. A tight V in the right arm, a perfect L in the left arm, a near perfect triangle between elbows up to hands on bat until they get launched out to center field. Here is a new to her drill she did from Matt Lisle. I Used a smaller ball than in the video, I want the hands tighter to the torso. The drill starts at about 1:15.
[video=youtube_share;hXM3EUkoLxM]http://youtu.be/hXM3EUkoLxM[/video]
[video=youtube_share;hXM3EUkoLxM]http://youtu.be/hXM3EUkoLxM[/video]
Cannonball
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I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall to watch you work with your dd. I bet its a lot of fun.
Socalsy, this is my little girl and this ball was hit really far. The discussion of "extension" is one of those topics that has been discussed here a lot and so, a search of that topic might provide some interesting reading for you and/or others reading this thread.
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fix her posture and front elbow and see what that changes
How about a heavy bat? and Adding to others throwing the hands, throw the bat.
With my players early in the training i teach the power v, from Parker, and let them only go to pointing the bat slightly above the pitchers head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rD59bukV4I
With my players early in the training i teach the power v, from Parker, and let them only go to pointing the bat slightly above the pitchers head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rD59bukV4I
