One year later - Any progress?

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BigSkyHi

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Pretty close to a year ago, we posted a swing eval request and received a LOT of good advice from many of you! It was ALL appreciated, and we tried to incorporate it as much as possible. So here we are a year later with yet another new Mizuno PC (33/23) with special thanks to @CoreSoftball20 again! She loves the bat even more than last year's, and is really getting to understand and learn from the feedback it gives her.



She is still pushing a bit, but not nearly as bad as last year. She is leaving her stride open still (stepping in the bucket a little), but not a ton (she has now heard this from me and a D1 coach, so it is starting to actually get corrected. And still trying to get a bit more scap load. (As someone mentioned last year, she looks like she just needs to hit harder.)

Edit: Forgot to mention that they are pitching her whiffles.

Please offer up any ideas for improvements, and any drills you think might help!

Hey kiddo - study this so you can swing like a girl - https://youtu.be/NEH2HACJTto
 
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Fine line between careful and calculating about life decisions and not willing to take any chances....

Agreed. I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt. In that she's playing high level softball, full of opportunities to fail. Just by playing the game she's taking chances.
 

fanboi22

on the journey
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FFS has been banned from DFP for a while.

The first thing I see is an arm-powered swing disconnected from her torso. I would like to see her pull back into her scap and hold that tension as the torso gets rotated.

Learning about using a hand pivot point will also help her...

I like this video, however, around the 4:40 mark is interesting to me. Do you have any thoughts on the instructors comment that the barrel weight will pull the hands into extenstion? I have always been curious that when we talk about tee work, the tee should be back in the stance farther and not that far out front. I am curious where an ideal contact point is, and if this video represents it correctly. It seems like the video is working on the barrel turn to get the feel of it, but mentions the extension to let the viewers know that this may not be an ideal contact point, for feel purposes only.
 
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I like this video, however, around the 4:40 mark is interesting to me. Do you have any thoughts on the instructors comment that the barrel weight will pull the hands into extenstion? I have always been curious that when we talk about tee work, the tee should be back in the stance farther and not that far out front. I am curious where an ideal contact point is, and if this video represents it correctly. It seems like the video is working on the barrel turn to get the feel of it, but mentions the extension to let the viewers know that this may not be an ideal contact point, for feel purposes only.
We have been shooting for the inside of the front foot (just off the heel maybe?) at toe tap. So we have been setting up the tee just inside full stride. We used to set it up a little further out, but were told to pull it back in at a D1 camp.
 
Apr 2, 2015
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Woodstock, man
When you use a tee, you should try to emulate where you want to hit the ball. Where do the pros hit the ball? Typically, for a meatball pitch, near the ball of the front foot - after the stride. You can see why, since you want the back elbow near the hip and the bat head maybe a couple inches ahead of the hands, and the hips turned halfway.

hitting-a-baseball.jpg


Inside pitches would be near the heel of the front foot. Outside are closer to the toe. [editing late night post:this is backwards, inside is toe, outside is heel]
 
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When you use a tee, you should try to emulate where you want to hit the ball. Where do the pros hit the ball? Typically, for a meatball pitch, near the ball of the front foot - after the stride. You can see why, since you want the back elbow near the hip and the bat head maybe a couple inches ahead of the hands, and the hips turned halfway.

hitting-a-baseball.jpg


Inside pitches would be near the heel of the front foot. Outside are closer to the toe.
I agree with the top and the pic looks perfect from what I was trying to set up in my head, but isn't the last sentence backwards? Outside pitch travels deeper than inside.
 

fanboi22

on the journey
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When you use a tee, you should try to emulate where you want to hit the ball. Where do the pros hit the ball? Typically, for a meatball pitch, near the ball of the front foot - after the stride. You can see why, since you want the back elbow near the hip and the bat head maybe a couple inches ahead of the hands, and the hips turned halfway.

hitting-a-baseball.jpg


Inside pitches would be near the heel of the front foot. Outside are closer to the toe. [editing late night post:this is backwards, inside is toe, outside is heel]

I guess it is a small difference and it may be pitch location(the above may be a more inside pitch), but i look at the pic you show as beinga bit 'jammed' with no extension. Below is Miggy who I would list as an ideal model hitter is showing more extension. Perhaps this is a result of a bigger angle of lean with the upper body? But his right elbow is past his hip already. I think the angle of the photo plays into it as well.

Just curious of thoughts, as I don't feel the first batter has as much 'whip' and is limiting bat speed and power.


Though i do agree that Trout is very successful with a 'Jammed' swing. To me IMO Miggy looks better and strikes out less.

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