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It was hands down quick to the ball and try to create back spin.
This is common but bad advice.
The result is usually chop-down swings.
It was hands down quick to the ball and try to create back spin.
This is common but bad advice.
The result is usually chop-down swings.
Tell MLB they are wrong then
Amazingly, it was EXACTLY what is taught to baseball players.
There was nothing said about level swing and trying to match the plane of the pitch. It was hands down quick to the ball and try to create back spin. No weight shift to the front foot to end with your back toe on the ground. It was load, stay back with head over your back knee against a firm front leg down thru the ball and extend.
Good clip Chris. It demonstrates how rarely the chance meeting of ball and bat happen when you bring your hands down quick to the ball.Nobody does this.
ITheir favorite drill is the 2 tee drill with the Tee closest to the net being lower than the one behind it. Their swing plane is non existent and inconsistent. Yet at Whatsamatta U there is no such thing as bad hitting instruction.
Dana.
In fact, I think a lot of the drills I've used or seen in the past to work on swing plane (like the two tee drill you mention) may solve one problem (severe barrel dump) while introducing others...what repetition drills you use to work the swing path specifically?
AmenI fight this battle one coach at a time where I live. We have college girls down here who come out after 4 years at any number of D-1 schools and they become instructors. Their word is gospel just from the fact that they played 4 years of D-1 ball. Never mind little Suzy cant hit the ball after a few lessons. Dad and Mom will continue to go just because her instructor attended Whatsamatta U. The old guy whos teaching kids rotational hitting (My lable here in town) doesnt know what he is doing with his instruction.
Well at Whatsamatta U they teach take your hands to the ball and swing down. Their favorite drill is the 2 tee drill with the Tee closest to the net being lower than the one behind it. Their swing plane is non existent and inconsistent. Yet at Whatsamatta U there is no such thing as bad hitting instruction.
Me too and I like this. What I have seen often in game swings with teenage girls are two different issues:I will use a two tee drill to deal with massive uppercuts, but I set it up very differently.
For one thing, the rear, guide tee is lower than the front, target tee. That allows a proper, slight uppercut but not a gigantic uppercut.