Stopping at contact

RADcatcher said:

Are you saying you know her

Many players are acclimated to doing those drill/swing mechanics. It would be surprising if she had never encountered them.

Mehhh don't think it's introducing something that's a problem. Because it is used so much for training and productivity.
( but that could just be the old discussion of these mechanics over those mechanics)

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My thought is she changed her mind way too late and tried to check swing after she had hit it. Or maybe misidentified a change-up and it was gone before she could put on the brakes.

My wife threw an old sweet potato at me this morning, and midway to me I decided to catch it underhand instead of overhand. But I never actually turned my hand over or dropped my arm, so the potato just ended up on the floor, narrowly avoiding killing our 10lb poodle. Brain was way behind the body.

efastball said:

If you have a good swing, there is NO WAY you could stop at contact.

Ergo, if you can stop at contact, you have a bad swing.

If the coach is telling them to stop during actual games, then he needs to be in a mental institution.

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Even if you could maintain 100% strength/velocity until the ms the ball leaves the bat and then instantly stop the bat...why would you?

The only thing I can come up with would be as a righty, the follow through turns your body towards third instead of towards first and maybe you can some fractional reaction time in getting your body down the line?

Whitaker certainly has an abrupt ending to her swing. Reminds me of Glenallen Hill.



I'm not sure if she suffered an injury, but looking at stats, they really fell off in year 2.

The risk of decelerating your bat too soon seems too great for my liking.

Nuwin said:

Whitaker certainly has an abrupt ending to her swing. Reminds me of Glenallen Hill.



I'm not sure if she suffered an injury, but looking at stats, they really fell off in year 2.

The risk of decelerating your bat too soon seems too great for my liking.

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Could help but notice how dramatically her stats dropped off after NCAA started bat compression testing. Just saying.

No 27 Marder is in that screen shot. Her mom was one of my roomies in college for a semester. Mostly couch surfing in the fall while she tried to make the SHSU softball team. She didn't make it.

Practices for sure this is used...We use to contact, then to full extensions for all warmups before going to full swings. Helps the hitters see things easier to contact and it's better for the hitter to see and feel the attack angle issues, or balance issues...We also go back to extensions if hitters go cold in a toss session, just to see what may be amiss. Ball trajectory changes from contact, to extension to full swings. IF the ball angle changes drastically, it's easier to diagnose certain swing issues working through all three areas.

Regardless of the level of hitter, these are good steps to work with. It also helps hitters to avoid over swinging right out of the gate.

I can see a coach who has never played hearing that a player who keeps her bat in the hitting zone a long time is good thing. So how do you guarantee the bat is in the zone for a long time? Stop the swing.

I never understood the stopping the bat drills.