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    Throwing

    This Explains It I saw Kansas and Florida play a month ago. Lots of terrible arm actions, especially in catchers. Stuff that baseball pitchers don't even do any more due to injury problems. Tommy Hanson, Joel Zumaya, etc. I assume this thread explains some of what I was seeing. P.S. One of...
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    Drills

    This isn't the Barry Bonds drill as Bonds does it. Look at him pushing to catch the ball and the extension of the back arm when he catches it.
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    Better video of DD hitting - tips welcome :)

    To get into this in more detail, I prefer that my hitters take balls during BP rather than swinging at any piece of crap that's close. I used to watch Manny Ramirez take BP and it was striking how many balls he took (during BP). How are you supposed to be patient and get a good pitch to hit in...
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    Better video of DD hitting - tips welcome :)

    VERY nice swing. Don't change a thing (except maybe the BP pitcher). Get a good pitch to hit, then hit it.
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    Better video of DD hitting - tips welcome :)

    She's hitting balls that are up out of the strike zone.
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    Review Drill - "Drilling Sequence" (Looks Epstein-ish)

    lol...........
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    Question about hips??

    There's your mistake. Were you watching the thing on Matt Kemp? If so, it was pretty much complete nonsense. For instance, the guy didn't understand that the hips can move without moving the shoulders.
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    Whos the best?

    Demanding and with high expectations? Yes. Mean? No.
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    is there such a thing as a mlb hitting instructor cetification?

    He's lying. The closest thing to what he's talking about is the scout school that MLSB runs. There's nothing comparable for hitting coaches (which is part of the problem).
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    "no-stride" gifs

    That's what I thought. Thanks.
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    "no-stride" gifs

    Anybody know the date of this clip?
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    Getting "SAT"

    What's the date of this clip?
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    Rose olored Glasses and The Elephant in the Room

    That's potential energy, but not what we are talking about. If you released that force, your arm would fall to your side, not hit me in the face. A better example of potential energy in your personal violence scenario would be your holding a sledgehammer over my head or cocking and aiming an...
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    Rose olored Glasses and The Elephant in the Room

    The problem with the statement above is that it doesn't make sense from the standpoint of physics or physiology, which is why I don't use fuzzy terms like "corner" in my teaching. First, resisting forces don't store energy. It's more subtle than that. Also centripetal force doesn't release the...
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    Rose olored Glasses and The Elephant in the Room

    As I have explained before, Torres doesn't get behind the corner from the left side because he was coached out of it in an effort to fix his "problem" with bat wrap.[1] I keep trying to put it back in, but his pro coaches keep taking it out. In general, hitters are going to struggle getting...
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    Looks like Bustos has new video's

    If the hands get too far ahead of the elbow, it will slow the swing down, not speed it up.
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    Looks like Bustos has new video's

    I have to agree with RayR on this, at least to a degree. What Bustos is demonstrating is what most newbies do; she's sweeping the barrel/hammer around her hands. Basically muscling up, which wears out your forearms very quickly. What works much better, and what Bustos actually does, is she...
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    Turning the barrel

    I forgot to mention how he loves to use non-standard definitions of things, presumably to confuse people and to force you to pay to access his site. You get some stuff for free, but have to pay for the rosetta stone/decoder ring.
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    Turning the barrel

    I'm sorry, but there's nothing new in TM's good stuff. It's just a repackaging of old ideas (e.g. running start becomes turning the barrel). I also don't think that anyone can deny that TM displays antisocial if not sociopathic tendencies. Stalking people's kids isn't something that happens...
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    Hit this Ball

    Part of it is that it's hard to find good clips of them. Of course, it's also due to the fact that they don't do what good hitters (supposedly) do. They don't fit the model that is being sold. The same is true of George Brett and Caitlin Benyi.

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