Swing help!!

[FiveFrameSwing]

I like your use of the term "release" here... What can be confusing is that IMO both a 'front side release' and 'one-leggedness' can coexist.

Even in the swing clip that Butter presents as a "great view of being one legged", I see a front-side 'release'.

 

[FiveFrameSwing]

More great instruction on what not to do from RDB! No miggy gif tho, so it was a half hearted effort.

So if thinking ground up or hitting with your lower body is a slow swing. Where you you start your thinking? Are you a think swing with your arms guy? Or a swing with your hands guy? Or a dont use your lower half swing with your back guy?

Lay down some of that knowlege.

Try thinking of it this way …

As you weight your rear leg in preparation to move forward, there is an energy flow from the rear hip area to the rear foot … and in accordance with Newton’s laws of physics, the ground in a sense sends this ‘pulse’ back, which travels from the ground back up towards the rear hip area. The rear leg is thus serving as a post/base/plateform, with the swing being able to draw from the upper leg area to initiate the swing … and not have to ‘reach’ back to the ground.

Pros, in a sense, “stay in their rear leg”. They do not go forward with the intent to get out of their rear leg … they go forward with an intent to “remain in their rear leg”.

 

[rdbass]

Pros, in a sense, “stay in their rear leg”. They do not go forward with the intent to get out of their rear leg … they go forward with an intent to “remain in their rear leg”.

Yes, Try not letting your rear heel/foot leave the ground during tee drills/front toss. Of course, it will but,

that effort to not let it move is where the power comes from.

No 'Elvis move' here:

 

[FiveFrameSwing]

Yes, Try not letting your rear heel/foot leave the ground during tee drills/front toss. Of course, it will but,

I gave hitting sessions to two kids this past weekend that suffered from such a disease. They literally kept their rear heel & foot glued to the ground. It was ugly!

Both were apparently "bug squishers" ... and they were "fixed" by being taught to "not squish the bug". These poor kids needed to be "fixed" yet again.

Terrible when a hitter is trained "what not to do" instead of "what to do".

 

[FiveFrameSwing]

No 'Elvis move' here:

Correct ... no Elvis-move there. The rear leg from the knee downwards is basically a support/post/platform that is worked upon. It is 'basically' inactive. Just as it should not be 'active', neither should not be 'glued to the ground'.

 

[Buttermaker]

Even in the swing clip that Butter presents as a "great view of being one legged", I see a front-side 'release'.

All I can say is I used to see and believe that. Now all I see/feel is the pullbacks against the IRing rear leg.

 

[FiveFrameSwing]

The lead leg external rotation that is taking place here is not caused by the rear leg.

 

[tjintx]

If you need to use 1 legged or rear legged drills to teach a hitter how to control the pelvis that's fine. But, understand you are(or at least should be) really teaching them how to create resistance across the pelvis(middle). You may be inadvertently teach them how to control the middle(pelvic angles), But most likely you will get rear hip extension.
If you understand what you want then doing it on 1 leg isn't required.

 

[rdbass]

I gave hitting sessions to two kids this past weekend that suffered from such a disease. They literally kept their rear heel & foot glued to the ground. It was ugly!

I'll bet they were 'arm swingers' to start off with..

Terrible when a hitter is trained "what not to do" instead of "what to do".

We can throw out all kinds of scenarios.

Just as it should not be 'active', neither should not be 'glued to the ground'

It's a 'tool' in the tool box to be applied to try and 'fix' a flaw a hitter may have,

 

[rdbass]

If you need to use 1 legged or rear legged drills to teach a hitter how to control the pelvis that's fine.

I must have missed that post. Where was a 'rear leg drill' posted. If you mean my suggestion posted as a 'feel' during a swing.

Try not letting your rear heel/foot leave the ground during tee drills/front toss.

I never said this was a rear leg drill. I've never every suggested 'controlling the pelvis'. I'm not even sure what that means. If not direct towards my post then dis-regard.