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    Front leg issue in swing

    Tell her to finish her swing with her belly button facing the pitcher. When she finishes her swing, have her hold her pose and take a look at where her belly button is facing. Odds are, she is not rotating her hips enough. She will need that front leg to hold in place or slightly rotate the...
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    swingaway

    FYI - I am in by no means an expert. I have simply worked with our local travel team coaches for softball and an ex-minor league ball player who seems to know his stuff (all of his kids are incredible hitters). They have all reiterated focus on the top half of the ball (ie, bottom half of bat)...
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    Uppercut Swing

    Thank you both (Mark and Tom). I'm not ignoring your posts - I'm trying to digest them. A lot of info for me to ... ponder.. and go out and try with my own bat. Mark, I understand the disconnection reasoning in #18 now - thx. Still not sure I understand the diff in 14 & 19 - and I don't see...
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    Uppercut Swing

    Thanks Mark, a couple quick questions about the analysis page. I'm looking at Ortiz's right (front) elbow in #14. The caption states he is remaining in the box, but it appears to me that elbow is doing the exact same thing as the guy is doing in #19 in the 'fence drill' and supposedly doing it...
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    Uppercut Swing

    Was DB talking about tilting backwards towards the catcher? I'm not a fan of that either - seems to me you are taking away forward momentum from the swing at contact. I am a newbie to all of this so my apologies for my ignorance. I just went through some of the other posts, and you (Mark) and...
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    DD wimps out at the plate

    I'm with madskilz on this one - running doesn't help. I tried team laps for looking 3rd strikes and then moved to sprints for everyone except the girl who looked at the 3rd strike. These were not my finer moments. Nothing constructive came of these tactics. For laps we didn't even call out...
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    swingaway

    Ditto I have used it with my girls for the same thing. I bought the portable stand with it too and have brought it to tournaments. Its a nice tool for warming up.You swing one wrap early and its a high pitch and one extra wrap late and it is a low pitch. It isn't always the same height as that...
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    Uppercut Swing

    Shouldn't the tilt of the shoulders should be dependant upon the location of the pitch? The higher the pitch, the less the tilt, and the lower the pitch, the greater the tilt. The hands should be coming off the shoulder and you bring the hands to the ball. If that is true, then the shoulder...

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