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    Rose olored Glasses and The Elephant in the Room

    You know FFS and the rest of the Hitting Illustrated posse are losing an intellectual argument when they dig up a clip of your kid from 18 months ago in a pathetic attempt to discredit what you teach. They’ve been doing this for years. What they teach doesn’t hold up against critical...
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    IR of Rear Leg Exposed

    My dd is the poster child for why hitters don't want to internally rotate their rear leg to generate force to weight shift. Here's my dd demonstrating what I teach. Beside her is Utley for comparison: In the above clip of my dd, you are looking at a girl who starts off with her femur...
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    The influence of Ted Williams in fastpitch

    I often quote Ted Williams in my posts. The reason I quote Ted is because he was a proven expert on hitting and is considered by many to be the greatest hitter of all time. Many coaches and instructors still parrot his words, and some fairly modern day MLB players like Wade Boggs are on record...
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    Front Side Resistance

    I've noticed that a lot of the videos that get posted on here show hitters that open up their front foot as they stride. My DD use to do the same thing. In my DD's case, we did thousands of reps where she would stride to toe touch and pause with her front foot open at about 45 degrees. This...
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    World Cup Observations

    My daughter and I were watching Team USA play Britain yesterday. One of the announcers was driving me nuts talking about extension at contact. Every time one of team USA players hit a homerun, this particular announcer would comment on how the batter was able to get their arms extended at...
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    Is it legal to block 1st base without the ball?

    We played a team on Saturday where the 1st baseman blocked 1st base on purpose everytime the catcher threw to 1st to try and pick off our runner. We have a runner on 1st. The 1st baseman plays in towards home plate during the pitch. After the pitch she runs back to the bag and stands between...
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    Crash at 1st with No Double Base

    This past Saturday in one of our games we were playing on a field without a double base at 1st. We had a runner on 3rd with one out. The batter hits an infield grounder and is trying to beat it out to 1st. The batter-runner is running towards the outside of the 1st base bag, because there is...
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    Baden Ax Handle bat

    Just wondering if anyone has seen the new Baden Avenge Ax handle -10 fastpitch bat?
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    The Baseball Swing Is Adjustable

    I'm on "Mike Epstein Hitting's" e-mail list and he sent out a link to this YouTube video. I thought I would post it to emphasize that the baseball swing is adjustable and can be tailored to fit a player's strengths.
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    Shortstop depth

    For 14U, what is the optimal depth for the shortstop relative to the baseline, assuming we're not trying to get an out at home?

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