Feedback on DD's swing please. Video #2 after some work.

[video]https://youtu.be/87IpEGNUXEw[/video]

A couple of hitters to compare to





The pause is at the moment (or as close as possible) that the front foot starts down. Your daughter is already back with her upper body compared to Ortiz and Cabrera. As a marker watch the front elbow movement on the 3 clips. Ortiz and Cabrera's are on the pitcher side of their belly button at the pause and then work back. Your daughter's is already on the catchers side of her belly button at the pause.

The net effect is that her shoulders get over turned rearward and the barrel gets wrapped. And then everything comes forward together.

Try and have her get to the pause in the same positions you see Ortiz and Cabrera and then as the front foot comes down - get the hands back.

The sequence is off - the upper body is too quick. Said another way - her hands are as back as they can go too early and then come forward as the front foot comes down. All Back All Forward.

I still like how her legs work - now just gotta get the upper half to fall in line.

[MENTION=10913]Buttermaker[/MENTION] - I see what you're saying. We'll get to work on it. Thank You!

While in general I agree with [MENTION=10913]Buttermaker[/MENTION] she does try and hold a little while the front foot is coming down as opposed to leaking all the way forward. It would be better to see versus live pitching or machine to see if she has that same high leg all back and forward. Some hitters can get away with all back, hold, then release forward but it's just easier to use the "right" sequencing. If she can simply transfer some weight back without engaging her upper body hands, then hands and upper back as leg is going forward it is so much easier. Here is a good tutorial hopefully it's not the same as [MENTION=10913]Buttermaker[/MENTION] posted since my computer is not loading all video for some reason.

Not liking the 'sway' all back. Not liking the rear knee being turned back towards catcher and pass the rear foot.

I would like to see the rear leg remain firm/stable. Along with Buttermakers suggestions.

Something to work on in conjunction with the all back, all forward. She takes that intense load which, besides being out of sequence, is very good. And then she kind of weakly sets down her front leg. Look at the other gifs angle of front leg post step and how stable they are.

rdbass said:

Not liking the 'sway' all back. Not liking the rear knee being turned back towards catcher and pass the rear foot.

I would like to see the rear leg remain firm/stable. Along with Buttermakers suggestions.

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Exactly RD - the sway is an early upper body loading move. Out of sequence.

The sway is very pronounced and not loading the upper body. What we do to "load" the upper body would be torque in the torso which I would describe as "rowing" the rear shoulder blade "back". Not twisting the body so the shoulders and back/numbers face the pitcher, but a "tucking" the shoulder blade back into the joint (lol, I'm not anatomically wording this right probably).

The gif below shows very slight back/negative load compared to the SB player above. You see more leg lift and "fall". You can also see in this gif that his front hip gains ground forward. When I look at the player above the hips start in one place, sway back, and land back in the starting point with no momentum forward/gained which to me equals less power.

Another thing, which we don't see contact with the BB gif is that his ankle, knee, and most likely head is aligned straight, at a back angle \ and behind the knee at contact (again, assuming but it's a good guess). The gif on top is out of line, the head is forward, almost above the knee in a sort of "less than" or < shape with the ankle. It's not extreme, but something slight...if it were my DD I'd ask her to keep the head back a bit more in this situation.

Hands are to high.

yes there is no weight shift. The back knee doesn't press forward, staying in-front of the back foot.