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You really do believe this stuff don't you Steve.........
Finch is a CLASSIC example if I/R........Finch has very long levers coupled with really good fast-twitch muscles. Highly developed stretch receptors and a very fast stretch shortening cycle (SSC)........Which allows her to reach a max I/R load slightly later in her sequence.....But she does get there......
Yes we know........Watch the thumb disapear from the front side (palm out) to the back side of the ball as the pinkie/ring fingers suddenly appear up the outside (palm up)......
Anyway.....IMO.......Isolating this sequence is the MOST important thing you can teach in fastpitch.......
This is what I teach.......And what I believe is optimal........Start to finish......and is WAY more then your 90 degrees of "rotation"...........Just watch the elbow joint turn from basically UP to forward.........
This is your 90 degrees of rotation........FACING OUT TO FACING FOWARD........This (according to you) IS what you teach......And is ALL you teach.......And is ALL anyone needs.........
The reason I keep responding to your mis-informed posts on I/R is that I believe you're selling people down the river with your advise here my friend.........Just my opinion.........
Of course video of one of your students NOT turning palm up would be pretty compelling with regard to what you teach vs. what really happens.............
Happy Easter.........
Finch is capable of using more arm whip but not IR IN her technique. She pitches mostly from a palm out position from the top to release. So she rotates her forearm/hand only 90 degrees, none on some pitches like a riseball, to get to the neutral forearm position (palm forward).
Finch is a CLASSIC example if I/R........Finch has very long levers coupled with really good fast-twitch muscles. Highly developed stretch receptors and a very fast stretch shortening cycle (SSC)........Which allows her to reach a max I/R load slightly later in her sequence.....But she does get there......
This has been a bone of contention here because I teach more of a Finch "circle" and others stress the max IR.
Yes we know........Watch the thumb disapear from the front side (palm out) to the back side of the ball as the pinkie/ring fingers suddenly appear up the outside (palm up)......
Anyway.....IMO.......Isolating this sequence is the MOST important thing you can teach in fastpitch.......
This is what I teach.......And what I believe is optimal........Start to finish......and is WAY more then your 90 degrees of "rotation"...........Just watch the elbow joint turn from basically UP to forward.........
This is your 90 degrees of rotation........FACING OUT TO FACING FOWARD........This (according to you) IS what you teach......And is ALL you teach.......And is ALL anyone needs.........
The reason I keep responding to your mis-informed posts on I/R is that I believe you're selling people down the river with your advise here my friend.........Just my opinion.........
Of course video of one of your students NOT turning palm up would be pretty compelling with regard to what you teach vs. what really happens.............
Happy Easter.........