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May 12, 2016
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Did you teach her to tilt? Because if you did that's why she isn't balanced..You have tilt but it doesn't need to be forced

I've taught her a lot of bad things which have screwed her up and taken a lot of athleticism out her swing... I don't recall exactly, but I am fairly certain we emphasized the tilting. She was doing very well before I screwed her up
 
Sep 17, 2009
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Whatever you call it..torque the handle, turn the barrel, hand pivot point....I think way too few girls do it and even fewer are taught it. So I think a tool that instills that feel is great. Haven't built one yet but plan to.

Question, if I can describe this correctly: do you think that using a longer PVC pipe -- bat length-- while keeping the restraints and distance the weight can travel exactly the same -- ie, it would travel same distance, not all the way down a 32-inch PVC pipe -- would work the same? If so, you could use the "rest of the barrel" to do stop swings into a punching bag. If the bag is relatively deep in the stance, it would resolve a lot of the problems we are seeing with the demo where hitters have a tough time figuring out how and where to stop swing with the tool. The PVC is so light I don't think it would change the balance but you'd be able to slam the longer PVC end into a punching bag stop swing. I find hitters can stop swing into a bag pretty easily but really struggle with stop swings into space, into a tee-placed ball or a pitched ball...

Just a thought.
 
May 3, 2014
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Whatever you call it..torque the handle, turn the barrel, hand pivot point....I think way too few girls do it and even fewer are taught it. So I think a tool that instills that feel is great. Haven't built one yet but plan to.

Question, if I can describe this correctly: do you think that using a longer PVC pipe -- bat length-- while keeping the restraints and distance the weight can travel exactly the same -- ie, it would travel same distance, not all the way down a 32-inch PVC pipe -- would work the same? If so, you could use the "rest of the barrel" to do stop swings into a punching bag. If the bag is relatively deep in the stance, it would resolve a lot of the problems we are seeing with the demo where hitters have a tough time figuring out how and where to stop swing with the tool. The PVC is so light I don't think it would change the balance but you'd be able to slam the longer PVC end into a punching bag stop swing. I find hitters can stop swing into a bag pretty easily but really struggle with stop swings into space, into a tee-placed ball or a pitched ball...

Just a thought.

Hmmm. I would only worry about the pvc shattering. It's 10 degrees here today so even inside the pvc is brittle.
 

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Trabant swing
Jul 25, 2017
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...so I made 4 of these for our team.. when I was demo-ing for a group at practice, I was explaining that I wanted them to have the device facing the gym wall, so that if they let go of it or it broke, it wouldn't hit another player. As I said the words "safety first" the PVC sheared and the weight went crashing to the gym floor...
 
Dec 5, 2012
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https://twitter.com/robinsonrrrone/status/946027359987228672

It is just a stick of 3/4” pvc probably about 2’ or so long with a collar in middle to keep weight from sliding to far down and a cap on the end to keep weight from flying off. Weight is just a 1/2 pound barbell weight. Weight travels about 7-8” or so.


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Will someone please make this "how to" video a GIF.... for some reason it won't play on my PC
 

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