JJsqueeze
Dad, Husband....legend
Thats not a throw with the top hand. That is a push with the top.
It's a good drill. If the drill is performed close to the way the hitter on the right demos the RHD.
When I look at the top drill, I see a whole swing concept being ingrained that is common in softball hitting instruction. There are a lot of folks out there that teach a forward weight shift to a weighted front leg/down to the ball type of swing. From my experience this goes hand in hand with the mentality that a softball swing is different from a baseball swing. We have a girl on our team that has this exact swing. She has good power but is completely incapable of hitting a driven fly ball. It is all hard grounders and pop ups. It's a shame too because Just fixing the weight distribution issue would bring her in more square.
Seems almost like the RHD is being done too soon with her and is self defeating as long as the weight shift is there. No matter what she does with the top hand she will not be able to get the right feel of the throw with the weight going forward like that.
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