Rotational Hitting

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May 12, 2008
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You might want to check out the clips of the Univ. of Lousiana Lafayette on the link that Mark H. provided in post #154 Siggy's Hitting Clips - Image Event on page 16 of this thread. Their coach purchased the Epstein Hitting System a few years ago and installed it into their program with excellent results.

That's not what the ULL coach who handles the hitting told me when I asked him about Epstein's claim. He did buy it but he uses no one's system but his own. He's studied everyone but his methods are most definitely his own. Epstein went off half cocked on that one without permission.
 
Jun 27, 2008
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Wow this post literally took me an hour to read but I really like all the discussion. I am barely in my second year coaching fastpitch and I didn't know there were so many technical aspects to a swing.

My DD has been going to a hitting coach for about a year now and I want to post a video of her hitting to get anyone's opinion on where she could improve. Will post again later on tonight.
 
She's both as is everyone else if there good!

It seems to me that you think "rotational" means "sit and spin", which isn't the generally accepted definition of rotational hitting. A good rotational hitter has an initial "linear" movement towards the pitcher, which then gets converted into rotational movement to swing the bat.

Of course, you classified other activities earlier as linear, like a golf swing, for example, so I'm not sure what your exact definitions of linear and rotational are....
 
Jun 4, 2008
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My question to any of you is, have any of you ever asked Albert Pujols what he does to get to that position?And the reason I ask that is Team Posey has had that time with Albert and A-Rod and they talk about hands and back leg driving at the same time to the ball.Now how can you argue with that?
 
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This has been covered. What if feels like and what they really do are usually two different things. Feel is interesting but individual. Proprioceptive feedback is often at odds with reality. Each athlete has to learn through trial and error what efficient "feels like" to them. The purpose of instruction is to shorten that process. The purpose of immediate objective feedback is both to shorten that process and to make sure proprioceptive feedback isn't lying to them.

Example. Recently, in the last two or three years, Bonds really thought he swung down all the way through the ball. When Slaught showed him differently on video, it was a revelation. Did it matter to Bonds that what he felt when he swung well was in error? No. That was the only thing he DID need to know. The instructor however, DOES need to know what reality is.
 
Jun 4, 2008
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You need to know the process to get in those positions and if you cant feel it and do it yourself its awfully tough to relate it to an athlete.By the way I never said the golf swing was linear. Secondly at one point I read the words arrogant and ignorant pointed at me. I believe the work I've done with MLB players, Olympic players and the scientists from several top 25 universities gives me some type of quality experience.I understand some of you dont the opportunity to work with people at that level so all we are trying to do is get athletes to succeed. Dont try to judge when you have never been there.Try some of these things you might just like them.So stay tall throw the bat at the ball and let the body uncoil from the ground up.
 
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