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Mar 13, 2015
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The 1-legged vs 2-legged is simple...
One stays "coiled" "loaded" "stretched" or whatever wording you like, till launch. The other leaks forward hence 2-legged. Grab a bat and try it. It's no secret sauce. Swing to shift vs shift to swing is the same stuff. So when a coach says "stay back", they usually mean hit 1-legged but they just don't know it. Well most...
Another big one is "control your forward move". Same thing because you're not controlling anything with your front side.

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Apr 20, 2018
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The 1-legged vs 2-legged is simple...
One stays "coiled" "loaded" "stretched" or whatever wording you like, till launch. The other leaks forward hence 2-legged. Grab a bat and try it. It's no secret sauce. Swing to shift vs shift to swing is the same stuff. So when a coach says "stay back", they usually mean hit 1-legged but they just don't know it. Well most...
Another big one is "control your forward move". Same thing because you're not controlling anything with your front side.

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I need video. Would it be correct to say that the 2 legged hitter launches his swing before foot plant? Is there any good 2 legged hitters?
 

Cannonball

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I have never used the terms 1 legged or 2 legged. I don't think of hitting in those terms. I often hear "stay back" and it seems to me that it means something different to a lot of hitting coaches. For me, I want the core and the back hip to be a focus. I make sure that whether hitting off of a tee or live, my hitters always have a plate. I have them put a ball in the area of the dirt or mat alongside the area of the plate that goes to the back point. I ask my hitters to use that ball on the ground as a restraint. The goal then is to drive the back knee forward and downward controlling the hip action, get the bow pulled back and the knob pointed at the ball and then try to do most of that behind a that restraint. That is "staying back" to me. I want that back hip straightening that front leg so it is important that the front knee be flexed. That helps prevent a push backwards over the back knee. I see so many hitters doing that action in their attempt to "stay back."

I hope that some of this makes sense to you. Take my advice with a grain of salt. As I so often mention, I'm an "ex expert."
 
Apr 20, 2018
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"alongside the area of the plate that goes to the back point. I ask my hitters to use that ball on the ground as a restraint. "

Back point of the plate? I am lost. Should I assume that that the hitter is hitting the ball at the front of the plate? Stay behind the ball?

Nobody commented on my head stays back while hips more forward changing spine angle and flattening out the swing.
 
Nov 18, 2015
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Took me a few reads to picture it correctly - I'm assuming a ball is placed in the dirt next to homeplate, where the plate cuts in to form the point. The ball is a reference point. Sounds similar in purpose to the cue I use of "swinging behind you", as a way to encourage a "swoosh" bat path (behind and through). Many of the girls I work with (8-10YO) end up swinging late and in front of them - lots and lots of ground balls.

CB - when you said "knob pointed at the ball" - which ball are you referring to? I can see it both ways - as a replacement for knob to the catcher (since there's rarely a catcher during BP), or did you mean in reference to the ball in flight or on the tee?
 
Mar 13, 2015
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Omaha, Ne
I need video. Would it be correct to say that the 2 legged hitter launches his swing before foot plant? Is there any good 2 legged hitters?
This Martinez gif is good video. If shifting is what you mean from launch then yes. There's good 2-legged hitters everywhere. The difference is Pro vs Us. Pro knows how to "stay back", we would probably lunge forward.

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Cannonball

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I will respond. Grandpuppy sitting and she is not having me sit with this computer on. LOL
 

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