11YO- Dropping Hands

rdbass said:

I hope it at least helped you to get bigger biceps.

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daave266 said:

My 11YO has really good power and sees the ball well. She puts the ball in play more times than not and doesn't strike out very often. I think she has two primary improvement opportunities. She has a patience issue....can't wait on the pitch, so with slower pitchers, she's often out front and hits slow dribblers. We're working on this and seeing improvement.

The other issue is she tends to drop her hands pretty regularly in games. When we do T work she seems to do pretty good with keeping her hands up but in a live situation she will fall back on old habits.

What drills have you done and seen success? I see the High T drill and we've only recently incorporated that into our garage days. Any other good ones?

Thanks
Dave

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Eric F said:

The issue with tee work is that it takes the pitch-reading and timing component out of the equation. The pitch-reading time window is when players tend to drop their hands to an improper launch position, typically for a level or upward swing plane. This is a faulty process. What we want to see is the barrel being turned to the ball by the hands, launching from up near the rear shoulder.
https://noontimebaseball.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Cabrera_hands_side.gif


As for learning how to wait longer, this takes practice, but could also be related to her swing pattern and weight shift. If she is using a linear shift from over her rear foot to over her front foot, she's likely starting that shift in anticipation of a faster pitch, but when it's slower than expected, she is already committed to the shift and ends up way too far forward by the time the ball gets there, resulting in a very weak arm-powered swing with a poor swing plane.

I'm just making guesses based on a lot of the things I have seen in working with and watching young hitters. If you want some very specific information for your DD, please post video (hitting off a moving ball is better than tee swings).

That said, quite a few people have found helpful information for young players in this video...

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daave266 said:

ok....here's my first attempt at video upload.

Thanks


[video]https://youtu.be/VWzPXpRKAQ8[/video]

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daave266 said:

ok....try this again...

https://youtu.be/VWzPXpRKAQ8

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daave266 said:

https://youtu.be/y2MWh93SgyU

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