FiveFrameSwing
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I received a text message seeking clarification regarding information earlier in this thread.
When one speaks of movement within the sagittal plane, that motion is in a direction back-to-front/front-to-back … think in terms of a hitter in their normal stance in the batter’s box … the sagittal plane direction of movement at that time/orientation would be between the left/right batter’s boxes.
When speaking of movement in the frontal plane, that motion is in the direction across the body. For a hitter in the batter’s box in a normal stance orientation, the direction of movement at that time/orientation would be catcher-to-pitcher/pitcher-to-catcher (i.e., across the batter’s body).
When speaking of ‘loading’ … and let’s be a bit more specific and give a time/orientation within the swing … and speak of the ‘loading’ that occurs during the ‘reading-of-the-pitch’/’walking-away-from-the-hands’/’preparation-to-launch-the-swing’ … that ‘loading’ is not a muscling up of the muscles in the upper body, but more a preparation of the torso to launch the swing. That preparation of the torso is not strictly refined to a movement in the frontal plane, or a movement in the sagittal plane, but is more a mini winding/coiling of the torso … it is not simply a winding/coiling in the transverse/horizontal plane … but a mini-coil that often has the distance between the ‘rear hip to rear armpit’ increased relative to the distance between the ‘front hip to front armpit’ (i.e., attack angle). That resulting increase in the distance between the rear hip to rear armpit can be thought of as the building/establishment of the corner/rear-edge and helps a hitter lead to consistency by not having excess slack in their core at ‘swing launch’. The ‘loading’ is in essence a slack removal process that prepares the torso in the launching of the swing.
When one speaks of movement within the sagittal plane, that motion is in a direction back-to-front/front-to-back … think in terms of a hitter in their normal stance in the batter’s box … the sagittal plane direction of movement at that time/orientation would be between the left/right batter’s boxes.
When speaking of movement in the frontal plane, that motion is in the direction across the body. For a hitter in the batter’s box in a normal stance orientation, the direction of movement at that time/orientation would be catcher-to-pitcher/pitcher-to-catcher (i.e., across the batter’s body).
When speaking of ‘loading’ … and let’s be a bit more specific and give a time/orientation within the swing … and speak of the ‘loading’ that occurs during the ‘reading-of-the-pitch’/’walking-away-from-the-hands’/’preparation-to-launch-the-swing’ … that ‘loading’ is not a muscling up of the muscles in the upper body, but more a preparation of the torso to launch the swing. That preparation of the torso is not strictly refined to a movement in the frontal plane, or a movement in the sagittal plane, but is more a mini winding/coiling of the torso … it is not simply a winding/coiling in the transverse/horizontal plane … but a mini-coil that often has the distance between the ‘rear hip to rear armpit’ increased relative to the distance between the ‘front hip to front armpit’ (i.e., attack angle). That resulting increase in the distance between the rear hip to rear armpit can be thought of as the building/establishment of the corner/rear-edge and helps a hitter lead to consistency by not having excess slack in their core at ‘swing launch’. The ‘loading’ is in essence a slack removal process that prepares the torso in the launching of the swing.