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Apr 14, 2015
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South Australia
Hey Guys

This is my 14yo DD, She spends alot of her training time pitching and has recently started to really work on her hitting game. It is a work in progress but has managed to secure a spot in the batting line up for her team and is going ok after having a DH last season.....

Cheers Justin

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SB45

Dad, Coach, Chauffeur
Sep 2, 2016
150
28
Western NY
I'm guessing she makes a lot of good contact but hits the ball weakly? She has very little load. I would try to have her slow down the negative move, bend her knees, get some more weight in the back hip, stretch the hands...then explode to the ball. She looks rushed...fast , short, ineffective negative move.
 
Apr 14, 2015
35
6
South Australia
I'm guessing she makes a lot of good contact but hits the ball weakly? She has very little load. I would try to have her slow down the negative move, bend her knees, get some more weight in the back hip, stretch the hands...then explode to the ball. She looks rushed...fast , short, ineffective negative move.

Thanks SB , I see this now... We have spent alot of time on the hand path and hips as she was a prolific up and under swinger and the bat wouldnt spend much time in the hit zone..... she does make good contact but very late and almost always opposite field....
 
Jun 27, 2011
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North Carolina
We have spent alot of time on the hand path and hips as she was a prolific up and under swinger and the bat wouldnt spend much time in the hit zone.....

Her hand path is promising, IMO. But hips are not. Hips just spin, and they don't coil forward, and they don't lead the hands. Learning how to use her hips better and getting in sequence would help her fire the pretty good hand path that she's developed.
 

rdbass

It wasn't me.
Jun 5, 2010
9,131
83
Not here.
All arm swing. A 2 piece swing. Drops hands down 'level' to the ball THEN launches. Was your DD taught knob to the ball?
Is that a Dingo in the back ground?
 

SB45

Dad, Coach, Chauffeur
Sep 2, 2016
150
28
Western NY
She starts very late with a rushed swing...makes sense that she would be late to the ball. I think there are components to her swing that are on the right track if you isolate them and don't look at the other parts...but they are not tied together in a proper sequence. My guess is...she has worked on specific parts of the swing that kind of lose the context of a full swing pattern where everything works together...I don't get a sense of flow or rhythm. almost like you've broken it down too far into bits and pieces...but haven't put those bits and pieces together. Before you go into trying to drill or teach anything new, I would suggest you spend some time on DFP reading about sequence, gather/coil, separation, how to use the hips correctly. Look at and study the model swings, look specifically for the timing and the movements within the sequence. Do your best to understand the whole sequence...then work on putting her parts back together in a better order.

And I laughed out loud at the dingo.
 
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Sep 29, 2014
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Biggest things I see aside from the too rushed, no load swing, quick weak arm swing are these two:

1. No separation...this is the max separation point I could find.

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2. Out of sequence. This is at heel plant. It's OK (but not ideal) that she has very little stride but she still slightly lifts then puts weight on her front foot and this is where her swing is at during that point. Her hips and arms should not be going forward until after planting the front foot

outofsequence.JPG


These are two different pictures in theory this should be the same picture, at heel plant should be at max separation and also the instant before hips and arms begin moving to swing. As you can see here at heel plant she has already begun her forward component of the swing. As others have said and you admitted she as been focusing on hand/bat path....it is time to start working the bottom half.

I do think a BP, game, machine or even front toss might be helpful so we can see more naturally what her swing look like versus off a tee.
 
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Apr 14, 2015
35
6
South Australia
All arm swing. A 2 piece swing. Drops hands down 'level' to the ball THEN launches. Was your DD taught knob to the ball?
Is that a Dingo in the back ground?

Hahaha...No dingo but the little foxy dog sitting on what used to be his lush grass before renovations..... Hips need to be better and this is better than it was....I am teaching knob to pitcher short to long through......It is a work in progress and all this info will get us back on path... Thanks for your honesty.
 
Apr 14, 2015
35
6
South Australia
She starts very late with a rushed swing...makes sense that she would be late to the ball. I think there are components to her swing that are on the right track if you isolate them and don't look at the other parts...but they are not tied together in a proper sequence. My guess is...she has worked on specific parts of the swing that kind of lose the context of a full swing pattern where everything works together...I don't get a sense of flow or rhythm. almost like you've broken it down too far into bits and pieces...but haven't put those bits and pieces together. Before you go into trying to drill or teach anything new, I would suggest you spend some time on DFP reading about sequence, gather/coil, separation, how to use the hips correctly. Look at and study the model swings, look specifically for the timing and the movements within the sequence. Do your best to understand the whole sequence...then work on putting her parts back together in a better order.

And I laughed out loud at the dingo.

Correct SB..... I took the swing right back and worked on her hands to the ball as it was terrible....she had a great swing for cricket in my country as they say.... we are now starting to put everything back together hence my post.......I will keep this thread updated as we start to bring it all together.....We have lots of contact now which we had nothing before ....
 

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