Step and Hit drill? I am going to try that this week. My dd (10) is lunging and then reaching causing her front shoulder to drop. She sure can hit hard ground balls I showed her video of how Gleybor Torres and Judge hit staying balanced and not over the front leg. Now she is squishing the bug. No forward movement at all.
Stuck on back side
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Not sure if you want an analysis..
The game swing is a ‘reach’ with the front foot. The practice load isn’t bad.It could be better. I want to see the bb gain ground before the stride starts. Or almost simultaneously. When the front foot reaches, it shouldnt be to shift but to leverage. Make sense?
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I was just showing that her front toss its more like Pollock, in that he is more forward when moves. In here game swing she doesn't. She basically stays over the back leg, knee, and foot and then reaches. I'm not quite sure I understand the leverage part. I'm assuming you are meaning that its not just moving the front leg out to reach as a independent action, but to move the center of mass of the entire body forward us a unit?
Get her back knee inside her back foot in her stance and tell her it can’t move backwards. Coil against inside of back leg. The up on front toe looks way over baked to me. Get her front foot on the ground in her stance and get her to plant her heel sooner.
That would be the knee ‘tuck’ portion, which isn’t stride.
During a good load the knee will ‘get’ tucked in and the mass will be carried forward. The lower front leg extends forward(stride) to leverage the swing. Making more sense now?
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I think I understand what you are saying concerning the stride. As far as load are your referring to the rear knee?
Not the rear. The rear leg is a ‘post’ that we stabilize against. But not really. Not when you load Sagittally.
Once the load is released forward, the front knee gets tucked under the mass and the mass is carried forward. The hands have released up or back or up and back, but not really. The mass gains ground and the hands are waiting to be pulled by the core.
What you are trying to accomplish is the hardest part of the sequence. Trying to get forward yet back or balanced on time with the ability to adjust.
Look when the front lower leg extends, that is stride. Look when the front knee is tucked. That is shift or transfer. What’s the mass/bb doing?
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The mass is gaining ground when the knee is "Tucked" under it. One thing I also see common to all of them is the head staying forward.
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Ok, so I work with a lot of HS players and have found this drill to be beneficial. We take a 5 foot big dowel rod and have a tee with either whiffle softballs, tennis balls or TCB Balls on a tee. We have our hitter take swings facing away from the tee. Most of the time, two swings. Then, we have them turn and move at the tee (tee station) rapidly to plant that back foot, load and swing. What we are really doing is trying to create a dynamic way of forcing our hitters to discover what their body really wants to do naturally. I hope I have described this well enough. This is one of our staple drills and players seem to really like it.
