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    Drills to become backside dominant

    Odd, a bunch of HOF'ers, some close calls...and Kevin Kouzmanoff who had about a 2 year MLB career?
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    Hitting philosophy

    Agree with most, front toss preferred, but machine is good for just getting more swings in. Heavy balls I like just to get younger players to finish their swing.
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    Drills to become backside dominant

    I think people have become overly obsessed with the back knee, confusing cause and effect. I never once in my hitting career had a swing thought that told me to drive the back knee. If anything I think she could push into her front leg more and The glute/hip/core action on the front leg forces...
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    10u practice format

    Keep em moving, standing around or listening to diatribes isn't goint to do it. Best practices have 4 coaches/parents running stations. Break the game into pieces. You can have basic infield drills going while others practice pop flies and a third group hits tee drills. Once you get past...
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    Practice Plan

    The nice part about that age is all the tee work, soft toss, warm-up, and repetitive drills they can do on their own once you get them started. So I would station it out with coaching being done on IF/OF situations, and girls running their own tees/soft toss/pitching/catching on the side.
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    Game Changer Laughs

    On a 16U team we had just the opposite issue, some father gave everyone but his daughter ROE whenever possible. So some girl might rip one down 3B line that glances off a diving 3B glove...ROE.
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    Best and worst training tools

    Mostly at 10U I tried the Camwood bat and I think its great to eliminate all of those 10U casting type swings The flat glove is great as well for learning to give with that ground ball
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    Anyone like outs at 2nd?? 10U

    My history at 10U and 12U is if you are consistently going after lead runners (specifiaclly where a throw, a bag coverage, and a catch are required) you are going to get zero outs more than 1 out. Runners are moving all the time. I've seen many lead out attempts where no runner was being...
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    Situational practice.

    I try to coach movement. Yes simple movement. Now I'm mostly 10U and 12U coaching but it always amazes me how I know these girls from hockey, basketball, volleyball, soccer etc. where they are constantly moving on every play. Then they get to softball and suddenly they become spectators...
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    Someone explain to me the obsession with "knee drive" for hitting

    I think your photo supports my point, it's impossible to "drive the knee" and still generate something that looks like a swing without involving the hips/glutes. Your hips in the photo are not closed to the picture are not closed as you say they are opening just as they should.
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    Someone explain to me the obsession with "knee drive" for hitting

    Yeah I think I've seen enough. Nothing is going to make me say "knee drive" to anyone. When I talk about coil, I am referring to the opening of the left hip and drive of the right, while the midsection resists the movement. The right knee drives as a complimentary move in my opinion...
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    No stride

    I'm not a huge fan of the no stride, or toe tapping...but it has its place for certain hitters. As a youth coach some girls can't figure out the stride so we try the other methods with some success. Pujols is sort of the classic no stride, Rendon is a tapper, Cruz and Cabrera have mixed it...
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    "but my swing works on lower level pitching"

    Wow, I could have wrote most of that quote verbatim. I will add its not just slow swings, good athletes can wait longer against slow pitchers and still have enough time to get in a technically sound swing. But I see so many good hitters fail against fast pitching because they refuse to be...
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    Someone explain to me the obsession with "knee drive" for hitting

    rdbass - I have a firm understanding of your posts and probably should have labeled my post differently as "knee drive" . I get the balance and drive function of the legs. My issue is this, a lot instructors are saying "knee drive" and as i watch the videos above the knee (the knee, not the...
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    Someone explain to me the obsession with "knee drive" for hitting

    I'm hearing it everywhere now... "knee drive" or "leg drive" from trainers and parents. So the concept is for a RH hitter that the right knee drives forward in the swing. I just don't think that way, if you are opening the left hip and driving the right hip the knee drives on its own, a...
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