I appreciate it. I guess I don't see the sagittal plane movement in the load. Or at least I have a hard time understanding that. I understand it to be a frontal plane movement because it's parallel with the frontal plane. As I also understand the torso rotation to be a transverse plane movement...
One of the local hitting instructors had a Mizuno rep in to let girls demo the carbon series bats. They took exit speeds off swings of the player with their bat and the player using the Mizuno bats. At least one of the Mizuno bats always had a higher exit speed than whatever the player was...
Help me understand your references to the planes. I can't help but think of gathering as a frontal plane movement and rotation as a transverse plane movement. I admit I'm just becoming familiar with the terminology.
This is his definition.
"The core of the body is actually the entire Torso. (right pic)"
and
"The torso starts from the top of the shoulders and goes all the way down to the bottom of the pelvis (What you sit on in a chair)"
Natural Hitting - The Core for natural movement
If you pause at heel plant you'll see that the rear leg starts to drive sooner on the stride swing and the rear scap stays tighter on the no stride swing.
The stride step got to contact a frame quicker and resulted in a higher trajectory than the no stride.
Dr Cross's study showed that "a couple is needed to start the swing". A couple produces rotation of the bat. How can you not supinate the hands and forearms simultaneously with the rotating bat?
https://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~cross/PUBLICATIONS/44.BatSwing.pdf
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Seriously though, I offered My DD's 12U coaches some videos to see if they were open to it. Today they introduced turning the barrel to the team. We tried replicating the wall drill using two tees next to each other, (they were the tools we had.) It's...
I recall this being a Carrier method. Maybe from a clinic or posts? I don't recall. Respectfully, I wonder if there is any real world value, pretending to track a ball that isn't moving? Is having the eyes follow a path without a ball just good practice in general? See ball at release, lose...
I think she ends up being more shift then swing versus shift and swing. Relies more on momentum. A bit of delay when the heel plants. I might start working on the stride/ move out with the weight back and a lower elbow set to help balance. I think the top half over compensates for the lower...
I saw one of Chris's videos recently and was wondering if he was a member of one of the hitting boards (I am not a HI member and don't venture to BBD much) as it's clear he's picked up on turning the barrel.
You won't find many people here, if any, that think a good fastpitch swing is different than a good baseball swing. Myself included.
Around the hitting sites, you'll hear references to connection and overlap.
Just take it as good coaching advice. These guys, FFS and Canon have been around a...