I can tell you first hand that Major League hitters, Albert Pujols, A-Rod and Manny actively focus on lead arm pull to stay in sync with the shoulders.
It's a great drill. Don Mattingly is the one who started that when he started pulling off the ball. It gets the lead arm on plane and forces it to stay through the ball.
The front leg is firm if you don't leak forward through contact.The front leg stiffens at and through contact because the hips turn through that point.At the end of the swing the knee must again be bent to get through the ball.
Hey Catching Coach, Doran will be doing a hitting clinic at the UW the same time you are in Seattle, you should look him up and see what he's doing. The coaches in The Pac think he's the best!
Tom you probably get attacked also but please explain in your words how a hitter adjusts to different speeds and locations obviously actually doing it doesn't count in this forum.
Thank you Tom. Posey and I are not trying to be confrontational but when people who have never played or have ever talked to high level athletes try to pass themselves along as experts and attack the great ones of the game that bothers us! We've played, we teach at the highest and youngest...
Once again you cant give one viable source to back up your statements KAT, you can only say video. I would like you to communicate your theories to someone in a practical manner as if you were teaching an average child. If you tell kids all of this stuff you confuse the heck out of them. If you...