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I don't think you folks are "misunderstanding" anything from the way I typed it, but rather I only touched on it, didn't explain it well, and why I said, "...but that's for another post/discussion".Since you don’t believe in a forward move with the head how does the body get forward in your teachings ?wouldnt the player be out of balance if they try to keep their head back ? On the backside to much? I like a good forward by coil move . It encourages a good back side release and an opportunity to achieve better balance dynamically. JmoSorry Mudders, I didn't mean to cut out all the content you wrote here, just wanted to shorten my post up. So if you look at the Justin Stone "one drill fixes all", or an example of Donaldson, Miggy, Bautista, Trout etc, they move their upper body forward (including head ) prior to heal plant. Maybe I am misunderstanding your here.
I'm not saying that the head doesn't move forward at all in the "FbC" process, but rather that I don't believe it should be moved in the manner or the extent that to which Coach Latta is describing it should. That is that he says/shows he moves the head out on top of the entire body to a 50/50 location...rather than I'd much prefer it move only a slight bit forward as the hitter works to kept his top half "back", and which the head is sitting on...
...I don't believe any of these hitters have "moved out" to a "50/50" weight distribution just prior to the launch of their swing, but that just maybe the "feel" I get from their "PoP" position loading.
Here's a hitter who I equate to what Coach Latta is saying/showing....
...moving out with his whole body to the ball until he gets to the "50/50" weight distribution, and then attempts to swing from there. From that forward, 50/50 position, I think we can all "feel" how difficult it is trying to "golf"/TTB from that position, even though Joe's still attempting to...and now go to the 8:30 minute mark of the clip, and look how much Coach Latta's demo swing looks like that one above...
So now compare that to "Donaldson, Miggy, Bautista, Trout"...do they stride forward to that 50/50 weight distribution, or is it more like 60/40, or even 70/30? Do their heads move forward as far as Thurston and Coach Latta's demo, or is the some, but much less forward head movement in their loads prior to their swings? (Sorry, I don't have any of those swings in my new image host or I'd post them for you to look at. If you have some please share them, and can compare from there if you disagree with the above assessments).
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