In 2000 Tiger Woods Accidentally Revealed the SECRET to the Golf Swing

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rdbass

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Posted on BBD by swingbuilder:

Exactly the same for baseball and softball....that is if you can grasp reactive ground up/ rotation.

The swing is middle out loading, top down launch, ground up reactive rotation.

Some huge nuggets in this.

Resist rotation (do not try to rotate) to rotate. Understanding explosiveness and suddenness are the keys.
Some might like...others not so much(golf).
 

rdbass

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That's even a thing any longer? Hahaha! ;) :D

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you can remove the RDB and you are left with what he acts like
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I think to much focus is on the hips, or rotational hitting. Not enough on the torso or the entire engine. I think the golf swing is slightly different as the swing and gravity work extremely well together (swing plane). However I have seen rotational hitters on many DVD's and on the web. The hip people don't talk about the legs or anything else. They create lots of rotation, although they don't have a HL swing.
 
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Feet and barrel... Find the connection to the ground and throw the barrel through the ball... The body is the engine and sequence is the magic.
 
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Posted on BBD by swingbuilder:


Some might like...others not so much(golf).


I mostly agree with this. The lower body gets out in front(sequence) . But the hands control the swing . The body gives support(power) to the swing .
The swing is middle out.

I thought SB was a rear hip controls things guy? Revision?
 

rdbass

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I mostly agree with this. The lower body gets out in front(sequence) . But the hands control the swing . The body gives support(power) to the swing .
The swing is middle out.

I thought SB was a rear hip controls things guy? Revision?


Go to BBD and decide for yourself
https://baseballdebate.proboards.com/thread/2571/free-hands
These quotes are to various posts/gifs/questions. So, they are not just about the Tiger video. Again, go to BBD and the free hands thread to get all the correct info.

Here is what SB posted:
Exactly the same for baseball and softball....that is if you can grasp reactive ground up/ rotation.

The swing is middle out loading, top down launch, ground up reactive rotation.

Some huge nuggets in this.

Resist rotation (do not try to rotate) to rotate. Understanding explosiveness and suddenness are the keys.
The hands are responsible for rotation. The hands do not sync with the lead stride leg.
The hips lead the way....but the hands action on the handle lead the hips to react...that is explosiveness, suddenness and EFFORTLESS
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Post by swingbuilder on Jul 26, 2018 at 12:31pm
No one here has. But, the hands pivot point must be first at launch or it’s not a hands pivot point it’s a spine pivot point.

Has nothing to do with up front or lead side sync.

What great hitters want to do is get the barrel behind the ball NOW. For that to happen the barrel must be sent around the hands at launch which causes rotation. Any other way is a push.
Casting is a result of active rotation. You can not cast with reactive rotation.

If you have a hitter struggling with balls in it’s because there is no reactive rotation because the hands and arms are pulling the barrel vs turning the barrel at launch.
Barrel turn at launch is the pivot point.

Reactive Rotation provides the hands inside the ball.

Without a loaded rear hip and barrel turn by the hands there will be no inside the ball.

Reactive Rotation is free hands.

As soon as you have to actively turn the body you have no free hands. It matters NOT where you pull the hands back to
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Barrel direction. The hands must give the barrel direction which will make the body react and allow the hands to achieve extension properly in the correct direction

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Post by swingbuilder on 7 hours ago
The barrel leads the way directionally not the hands. The hands action on the handle directs the barrel forward and behind the ball immediately at launch.

When the hands are moved forward by knob pull to get inside the ball the body will not reactively rotate.

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Post by swingbuilder on 6 hours ago
Judge would still be healthy and playing and would not have been hit by that riding fastball if he would stop turning the barrel backwards but instead turn it forward.

Backwards is his culprit in more than one way
 
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Meh...Depends on the type of swing you start with. His lower body was racing ahead so he was trying to "feel" his hands & arms start the swing to keep it all synced up.

If you have an over the top swing, this advice is questionable.
 

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