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Around 20 years ago I was able to coach some very good baseball players and a few that played in MLB. I had around 20 college and pro guys working with me. I moved on to other things and now have a 11 year old daughter and back working at it. My experience has been with much older players and working to make them better and not necessarily building swings from scratch (much harder). 1. Move off plate if she has grown. 2. Head can go forward and backwards but not side to side. Corrects a lot of problems without correcting a lot of individual things. 3. Swing and hold (balance) 4. Face balls seems up and down towards you and hit the inside seem. 5. Go to contact with chest behind the ball and then retrace and hit the ball. I like easy fixes.

Harder- hips first then rotate or tilt shoulders. I think she could do some of the get on plane drills also. Sorry, for being long.
 
Sep 3, 2015
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Be carefully
. I would like to see a side view swing first, before making any suggestions but, that's me. I'm not trying to sell anything. If this was an inside pitch(looks to be towards the outside) would the extension be out towards the pitcher. I think not. If I thought my DD's bat wasn't getting to full extension/finishing her swing I would be looking upstream. Almost looks like 'bat drag' to me but, again from this angle hard to say for sure.
Another thing a hitter doesn't want to get 'taller'. A hitter wantS their COM/COG to lower on most pitches.
I also think that there is bat drag, someone else had mentioned that this past weekend, her elbow gets too far forward and I think she rolls over. I'll look for a recent at bat from a better angle, thanks

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Around 20 years ago I was able to coach some very good baseball players and a few that played in MLB. I had around 20 college and pro guys working with me. I moved on to other things and now have a 11 year old daughter and back working at it. My experience has been with much older players and working to make them better and not necessarily building swings from scratch (much harder). 1. Move off plate if she has grown. 2. Head can go forward and backwards but not side to side. Corrects a lot of problems without correcting a lot of individual things. 3. Swing and hold (balance) 4. Face balls seems up and down towards you and hit the inside seem. 5. Go to contact with chest behind the ball and then retrace and hit the ball. I like easy fixes.

Harder- hips first then rotate or tilt shoulders. I think she could do some of the get on plane drills also. Sorry, for being long.

Thanks, we will try these things but I'm not sure what 4 and 5 mean though.

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If you're to close to the plate you must have bat drag and roll over to hit the ball. If your shoulders and hips turn as a unit to early you will have bat drag and roll over. If you correct those things it may fix the back elbow.

4. )( seems of the softball. Hit the inside seem. This will help you keep your chest behind the ball and hit through the ball. Not a computer guy.
5. Place the ball on the tee and get to contact position. Slowly go back to your stance and then hit. Easy to do but hard to explain.
 
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If you're to close to the plate you must have bat drag and roll over to hit the ball. If your shoulders and hips turn as a unit to early you will have bat drag and roll over. If you correct those things it may fix the back elbow.

4. )( seems of the softball. Hit the inside seem. This will help you keep your chest behind the ball and hit through the ball. Not a computer guy.
5. Place the ball on the tee and get to contact position. Slowly go back to your stance and then hit. Easy to do but hard to explain.
Gotcha, thank you

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If you can stop the swing at contact. She is doing a great job fighting to keep her head on the ball. Shoulders are turning with her hips. If she can keep them closed a little longer your get the proper stretch and stay behind the ball.
 
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Here are a few more swings, hopefully these angles are better. Thanks again for the input

https://vimeo.com/223396546

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Figure out how to activate rear scap.
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Keep the scap pinched to the spine. This will control the hands dropping.

Then learn how to rotate the forearms correctly to turn the barrel instead of the pulling she is doing now.
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Front forearm turns (pronates) so thumb goes down to ground. Rear forearm turns (supinates) so that thumb turns toward the catcher.
 

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