HELP! please evaluate my daughters swing

[julray]

I have no idea what "from/at the top" means so I don't know if I have issue with it. The top of what? My head? Desk drawer? The morning?

I'd imagine it means "not from/at bottom or middle", . JK Pattar

 

[FiveFrameSwing]

I have no idea what "from/at the top" means so I don't know if I have issue with it. The top of what? My head? Desk drawer? The morning?

Hmmm ... okay, FP gets it ... wonder what his objection is?

 

[_MIA_]

Hmmm ... okay, FP gets it ... wonder what his objection is?

I am assuming from his response is that FP's interpretation was that WW is saying you turn it blindly without pitch recognition.
Anybody who has faced a pitcher throwing 90+ (60+ in softball) who has a good off speed pitch will tell you that they are trying to A) wait as long
as possible to launch and b) once they launch be all in at go..you don't meter your swing once you launch.

 

[julray]

A rigid object can be whipped if it's attached to the end of the whip. Does the body not whip the bat through the zone in a good swing? If not, then I don't understand how bat lag works

 

[FiveFrameSwing]

Bold above... Not necessarily. A hitter wants to track the ball as long as possible before committing. TTB, by my definition, allows a hitter to create barrel acceleration quickly. Fine tuning can still occur. I don't know a single person on this site that promotes turning the barrel before tracking the ball.

FP, I don't disagree with anything you've written above.

Help me understand how WW's comment of "‘Turn the barrel’ is commitment from/at the top." contradicts what you've written.

 

[_MIA_]

A rigid object can be whipped if it's attached to the end of the whip. Does the body not whip the bat through the zone in a good swing? If not, then I don't understand how bat lag works

If this the definition of whip you are using: "to take, pull, snatch, jerk, or otherwise move very quickly and forcefully" then yes I suppose one "whips" the barrel.

 

[FiveFrameSwing]

I am assuming from his response is that FP's interpretation was that WW is saying you turn it blindly without pitch recognition.
Anybody who has faced a pitcher throwing 90+ (60+ in softball) who has a good off speed pitch will tell you that they are trying to A) wait as long
as possible to launch and b) once they launch be all in at go..you don't meter your swing once you launch.

I thought we established that no one here is suggesting that the barrel be turned blindly without pitch recognition.

Let's get clarification ....

WW ... are you suggesting that hitters blindly turn the barrel prior to establishing a prediction of where the ball will be?

 

[FiveFrameSwing]

If this the definition of whip you are using: "to take, pull, snatch, jerk, or otherwise move very quickly and forcefully" then yes I suppose one "whips" the barrel.

For me the 'whip' is occurring into/through impact ... at that point the barrel has already been 'turned'.

 

[Eric F]

If this the definition of whip you are using: "to take, pull, snatch, jerk, or otherwise move very quickly and forcefully" then yes I suppose one "whips" the barrel.

Probably a better description is that the bat gets whipped. It is the tip of the whip.

 

[julray]

Probably a better description is that the bat gets whipped. It is the tip of the whip.

That's exactly what I am saying. The bat isn't the whip, the bat is being whipped