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  1. J

    Model Fielding ...

    Looks to me like she steps right on top of the base with her right foot. The base has dirt on it. Regardless, MLB 2b's are taught to touch the base with the left foot and then preferably step back as you said, and throw. In Cal and Billy Ripken's fielding instruction they say to step on the base...
  2. J

    Model Fielding ...

    She touches the bag with the wrong foot. Left foot should touch the base.
  3. J

    Rose olored Glasses and The Elephant in the Room

    Prince pushes onto his front foot and swings. The bat is coming around after the shift and as the back foot un-weights. The HI guy just puts his front foot down lightly and swings while on the back leg. His head goes back because he never pushes onto the front foot. His head is trying to stay...
  4. J

    Rose olored Glasses and The Elephant in the Room

    Yep, can't say it much better. He swings off the back leg. HI thinks the front leg does nothing. However, if you look at an MLB swing, the hands don't even come around until they get OFF the back foot.
  5. J

    Turn the barrel???

    I don't understand what you're saying. I'm talking about the movement of the hands out of their loaded position and movement as a unit toward the ball. I'm not talking about barrel movement, or wrist action.
  6. J

    Turn the barrel???

    Yes, I agree with the bold above.
  7. J

    Turn the barrel???

    Nonsense. It happens in every MLB swing. Ted Williams and Barry Bonds, and Babe Ruth did it best. The knob goes out and then around, and that simple, small change of direction causes acceleration of the barrel, and it occurs early, without the need for early wrist action. Ted said he used the...
  8. J

    Rose olored Glasses and The Elephant in the Room

    Yes, and he believes that it is done by turning the weathervane, with the arms.
  9. J

    Rose olored Glasses and The Elephant in the Room

    But, he believes in weathervaning. The arrows are showing the direction of force, but the force comes through the arms. The wrists aren't supposed to break the weathervane angles, according to his beliefs. The illustration shows shoulder and elbow movement causing the change in wrist angle...
  10. J

    Rose olored Glasses and The Elephant in the Room

    I think you misunderstand what Epstein means by weathervane. He just means that the forearms, wrists and the bat form the look of a weathervane, and that they move as a unit as a weathervane does when the wind blows on it. IOW, the angles don't change, or break down. Miggy is weathervaning in...
  11. J

    Rose olored Glasses and The Elephant in the Room

    That isn't anything like a swing. I stated how to do it like a swing, and you can almost get the palm horizontal. Not completely. I've said many times, that there is SOME supination, LATE, but it is NOT an early movement, nor and early power source.
  12. J

    Turn the barrel???

    Just as I have had a problem properly understanding what "turn the barrel" means; it appears that you have a different understanding of what "throw the barrel" means. Throwing the barrel uses what I would call early torque. The torque to throw starts right about here; Your demo swing on the...
  13. J

    Turn the barrel???

    I'm not advocating pulling the handle. The body moves the handle. Hip and shoulder rotation get the hands moving. You throw the barrel immediately after the shoulders start to turn.
  14. J

    Turn the barrel???

    The shoulders turning is what brings the hands toward the pitcher. The bottom hand is connected to the front shoulder, and I'm sure that you do not believe in pulling the hands away from the shoulder early, so how do you think they get moved? The only way they can go forward without pulling...
  15. J

    Turn the barrel???

    The software can be reviewed at 3D Musculoskeletal anatomy, Muscle and Motion.com You have to pay an annual fee to use it. They update it with new exercise motion frequently.

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