This. She doesn't load. She swings from a standstill. So the only way she can get the bat moving is to drop it flat and create 'power' with her arms. That's why the weak, topped grounder. I bet she hits a lot of those :)
Get her a hitting coach who can help her properly load her body and...
It also surprised me when very good players were terrible at it. I used to hit both infield and outfield pregame with a glove on one hand bcatching the all a bat in the other hitting fungos one handed (humble brag lol). Not sure why the toss-hand would matter, it's what you do after the ball is...
I would tend to assume an email, even personalized, is a bit of of a blast -- trying to draw as many kids in as possible. A coach that WANTS you is going to go a more personal route and press the issue a bit more. That said, nothing wrong with an invite. Catch their eye there and the...
IMO the solution: don't make 8 year olds do top and bottom hand knee drills. Lots of more important (and fun) stuff to be working on. (not trying to be a jerk, just a different way of looking at it).
This may be obvious but she needs to be on the bounce as the ball leaves the pitcher's hand and reading the bat angle before the bat touches the ball AND THEN react to the ball off the bat. At third base, it's typically one step left one step right and forehand/backhand/dive at best. It's more...
Agree. But per your other post, this means that 'snapping' before foot down isn't a bad thing because the very best check swings = the stopping of a fully committed/launched swing. You just shut down the engine at the last possible moment, right, and the bat path breaks down hopefully in the...
This may be incredibly reductionist, but it's also true: to change an (athletic) motion, you need to DO something differently not just think about it or have someone describe to you to do something differently. So much so-called instruction on this site are proclamations like 'move the middle'...
She is producing pop ups not because she has an upward swing path at contact (she doesn't) but she because she has a swing-down path with weight shifted to the front leg, which KEEPS the swing path slicing down through contact (resulting in pop-ups and misses). Learn how to work the front elbow...
The better/funnier question is once they know how to calculate it, do they know how to score-keep correctly, or do they turn all their errors and fielder's choices into hits like score-keeping parents do? 🤣