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    Jocelyn Alo

    Pretty cool story... https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/33482627/jocelyn-alo-legend-comes-full-circle-record-breaking-home-run-hawaii
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    Swinging down

    True. Maybe Rich has completely revamped and revolutionized his teachings from what they were 15 years ago. 🤷‍♂️🙂
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    Swinging down

    I don't ever remember you at Hitting Illustrated, or at Rich's first ever clinic in San Diego when "Encinitas", "Mightylakers", and myself paid for his airfare, and lodging for the Friday night, Saturday, Sunday morning clinic. Or were you one of the three or four guys who walked out in the...
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    Swinging down

    It's indirectly his interpretation of "one-leggedness". If you've ever seen his demo of how he thinks the hip socket works in the swing where he glides his top hand over the top of the fist of his other hand in a circular motion...that's his downfall, because that's not how the rear hip works...
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    Swinging down

    He teaches "one size fits all", or maybe even better, "If all you have is a hammer...everything looks like a nail". His instruction was formulated from trying to copy Bonds, and nothing else. While he came close to copying Bonds on the surface, he missed what was happening under it. From...
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    Swinging down

    😁😁
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    what is west coast style hitting ?????

    Easy answer from Domingo....
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    Heel Click

    You mean like this...
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    This is Outfroom

    Froom of the Loom? 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️😆
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    Help with this issue

    Ugh. Just more armsy push swing inducing instruction. If that coach would just let the turn of his torso/shoulders continue, he'd automatically bring the barrel to where the ball/L-screen should/wound be at contact...instead of stopping the toros/shoulders turn prematurely, and then simply...
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    Swinging down

    Yeah, I tend to agree with you wrt to that. I think it's more the connection of the hands to the rear shoulder that give the appearance of the hands 'swinging down' as the rear shoulder tilts down with the turn of the rear hip ahead of it, as both turn forward. But once they're released from the...
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    Help with this issue

    Adjust your training to the student, don't look for general fix-its and expect the student to adjust to them. If she "comes out and up" of her posture swing she swings, give her a task or goal that will prevent her brain/body from doing so. Why do you believe that squishing the bug will...
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    Thoughts on this hitter

    My youngest son played against him in HS, and the TB circuit...Ty could always hit, and with power. While his style is similar to what he did back in HS, he seems to be a little more exaggerated with the hand and leg lift. He still did both back then (2011 & 2012), but much more toned down...I...
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    Good or bad swinging down

    My guess is that that's her presenting a not normal swing at a less than optimal pitch to swing at (possibly just doing what it takes to get the barrel on the ball with 2 strikes?). That said.... 1. Strides open too far (possibly because she's attempting to create space to swing at an inside...
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    Fastpitch hitters

    Poor guy will never make it. 🤷‍♂️
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    Fastpitch hitters

    Not the elbow in and of itself...bat location is also part of the equation or term. In all of the pros you posted saying they had bat drag the same as the amateur just because at a point in time their rear elbow was ahead of their hands momentarily is not necessarily bat drag. Because it was...
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    Bat Plane - True or False

    Cue balls are completely round, so yes, they're going to make contact on only one specific dot of a spot on each other when the collide. A bat however has a round surface and a flat surface (specking circumference and length), and discounting everything but the facts that a bat, baseball, and...
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    Thoughts on this swing?

    Kind of goes back to my conversation with Ww wrt the "hit the ball with your rear hip" cue, and not "turn your hips with your leg/knee, but never explained how it's to be done since he seemed intent on taking the conversation a whole different direction. 🤷‍♂️ But yes, "turning the hips against...
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    Bat Plane - True or False

    It's not an isolated phenomenon, or type of ball necessarily. Here's an MLB baseball doing the same thing... Gotta believe anecdotically that a softball would be even more compression-able.
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    Bat Plane - True or False

    Upon further investigation, I don't believe that "contact" is a single frame of reference, and that the path of the bat determines where the ball ultimately goes after "contact" (spin or not)....

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