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We are using it to help with stride consistency and to keep her from getting over her front leg. Her foot ends up at a slight angle.
more drills please:)
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Elk Talking Sequence With Eric Byrnes & Tom Tolbert - Episode #809 - YouTube
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FiveFrameSwing
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The drill has an objective of reaching heel plant with a closed front foot.
Sounds like you are suggesting that Pujols apparently didn't practice such a drill.
From the looks of it Mendoza didn't capture this mechanic either. In fact ... many accomplished hitters didn't capture it.
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So as an update...we've been hitting at least 100 balls a day since this post. She's been doing great hitting to right field (and hasn't complainedIn fact, we've been doing long tee drills and she's been placing the ball pretty much wherever I put the net now.
We've noticed that even though she's letting the ball get deep and placing the hits well, she seems to get over her front foot still. I guess this is an issue with not having tilt...?? Should I bring this up to her or just have her do low tee also with a high finish. I took a video of her swing during live pitching last night. We were both frustrated when we looked at the video because it looked like she didn't do anything we worked on in the last few months. Very little load, mostly arm swing. The wierd thing was two went over 200 feet but the swing looked nothing like when we were practicing. I didn't say much to her but "we'll work on it in practice."
And if we watched a video of her, is she setting her weight hard against the ball of her front foot at 90 degrees, or is she opening her foot toward the pitcher and setting the heal down during the stretch phase before any weight shift? Just curious.
I apologize as this is a little redundant after reading the rest of the posts, but didn't see a response.
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iMlearning,
Your going to want your DD's foot to end up angled.(see FFS gif)Your foot/leg is going to want to rotate.Stress to DD when she starts to swing to lock the front leg out.She should push back with the front leg.This should help witht the lunging. I know in my DD's case when asked why the lunge,her answer was "going out to get the ball".We worked on locking out the front leg and pushing back on the leg.Sure the smarter posters can explain better.
Your going to want your DD's foot to end up angled.(see FFS gif)Your foot/leg is going to want to rotate.Stress to DD when she starts to swing to lock the front leg out.She should push back with the front leg.This should help witht the lunging. I know in my DD's case when asked why the lunge,her answer was "going out to get the ball".We worked on locking out the front leg and pushing back on the leg.Sure the smarter posters can explain better.
rdbass, there are few here to try, and also study as hard as you do. Don't sell yourself short!
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I posted up earlier that we are having her front foot at an angle which is easy to do with a bucket. I'll have her work on the front leg. I had to go back and read some of the other dad's posts about getting frustrated over this swing progress. I almost feel like taking a break with her after nationals and letting her just focus on volleyball, but with tryouts etc... it's hard to. She doesn't seem to get frustrated much and I try to keep if fun but then later in the day it drives me crazy that it seems to not improve much (even with swinging at least a hundred times a day). Even looking back at videos in the spring, I can't see much improvement except she doesn't drop her hands very much now. We get a 3 week break and then go to shorter practices and fewer tournaments in a 12 month program. I'm probably expecting too much too fast. Anyway, guess that's going off topic!
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My DD does'nt want me to post a video of her again because she got frustrated with all the comments but I'll try to send a private message. I only have a recent one without shoes on.
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