Getting Weight Too Far Forward?
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I don't know if there's software to fix that part. Might have to go the old fashioned way and work on mechanics.
However, the swing looks pretty good for that age. I've seen hundreds of girls that age not as good.
Yes she gets to a position, toe touch. and then just falls or uses gravity the rest of the way. So everything is falling forward.
edit: or everything just falls to the front leg. The getting the weight to far forward look that OP was asking about.
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FiveFrameSwing
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You can edit out that double load with the right software.
Once the pause is inserted the energy flow is virtually dissipated and a 're-start' becomes necessary.
BTW she is using gravity to drop the barrel and slotting the back elbow before the body pulls on the arms. So it the body doesn't support the swing in the beginning until later in the swing (the body does turn later). She has a slot the back elbow and shift the body forward and then swing, instead of turn the barrel immediate and sit/rotate into footplant, body supports the upperbody.
I just went back and checked several other videos from Tuesday and she is more or less doing the double tap in all of them. A few weeks ago she was struggling a bit with the timing of the load. She was stepping while she was starting the swing. Coach had her start doing the stride/load early, like as soon as the pitcher starts her windup. Then hold the load position and swing when appropriate. That is the first step you see in the video. It looks like she is falling back on the old bad habit of stepping and starting her swing at the same time which is the second step. It is not as noticeable in this video, but in a couple of the other ones the hands/arms are moving forward before the front foot has even touched down. Coach has been teaching her that the front heel coming down should be the trigger of when the hands start moving. I think this double step is contributing to her getting her body moving forward and getting too much weight transfer to the front leg. I'll talk to her coach about it next week. I think we either need to stay with the early stride/load, but have her make it a bit more deliberate and reach a little further forward with the left leg so she feels it or not do the early stride/load and try something else to have her not stride and swing at the same time. Does that sound right?
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You said lesson in your initial post, so I am assuming this is a hitting instructor? Did he not see the double stride himself???
If she stays with the early stride then your doing a no stride, she can't be taken a second stride while trying to initiate the swing at the same time. Work on the no stride swing.
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I believe this would be the correct direction.
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Hands look a bit far away from her body. Looks like more of an arm swing instead of rotational. I can see her power going away as her wrists are almost rolling over at the point of contact. For 9 still looks good. Just some tweaking.. I like to see younger kids hold the finish after the swing. If the weight is on the front foot it's hard to have a good finish. It's very telling.
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