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on the journey
See notes in the reply. thanks by the way.I've done some dry stride work with Marcela. Her movements are a bit better but who knows if that is just her getting older or what, it cannot hurt. I used to swing in the mirror all the time growing up, it helps you connect what you are feeling to a visual picture of what the swing should look like. That's why i like having the iphone out, we use that to review right away, it's not a mirror but is close to the time she did it so she can remember the feel, or at least what she thought she felt.
To be honest her tee swing isn't bad and if she could bring it to the game she would do ok. Thanks. That said, the things that are wrong with it are accentuated in the game swing because of the timing aspect. Totally agree, the biggest issue she has in my opinion. If you look at her game swing, her stride is much shorter. agreed, but even her tee swing gets short unless she really focuses on it. I think the reason for this is she isn't able to move out on time (so she has shorten her stride to get her foot down to hit) because of what is going on in her gather, e.g. she is trying to load her upper back during the gather (e.g. "engaging the scap") when your upper back muscles should be used when she is moving out. This seems to be my hang up with W=W, hopefully i am understanding it now. But I am not sure what she is trying to do, as i asked before, is 'loading her upper back' the same as twisting her shoulders/torso clockwise? I guess i dont care when she does it, i think she just has to stop. I think the greater of two evils here is that she needs to stop rotating the top half before launch. Her move out should be a linear move front shoulder down. IMO She is also getting a bit too far over the back knee which will also hinder her move out from a balance perspective. yes, depending on the clip some are better than others, again depending on focus she has. trying to get a good into back heal coil.
So now, because she isn't moving out on time, she isn't able to develop enough stretch to be able to whip the bat through. Marcela has had this issue a number of times for various reasons including the ones I mentioned above. Recently she hasn't been able to move out on time because she was waiting to see where the pitch was to move out. I'm hoping she turned a corner on this the last few games she played..we will see this weekend. In either case, not moving out on time hinders a hitter's ability to develop stretch in the body. Thanks, i just see more of the timing as a lower half thing and less what happens on top. If she gets to the spot on time, and the top half then cant get there, that is either posture, hand path as mentioned before, drag or other items. Not waiting for WW to reply but it seems that the shoulder load, twist, whatever people call it, is the thing that people think is causing the most issues. So keep a silent top half and then alter from there as needed i guess.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply.