DD's finger was broken while batting which is why she went to no stride, she was bailing out too much.
She was playing with a splint on her broken finger.
She has just stuck to it ever since.
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DD's finger was broken while batting which is why she went to no stride, she was bailing out too much.
She was playing with a splint on her broken finger.
She has just stuck to it ever since.
I'll have more clips to post. I started with showing my kids the entire clip last night, and now I'm going to break it down for them. They still had problems preparing to swing. Your post is just good timing, because my kids do a no stride naturally. Although, they don't know how to prepare the swing yet.
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yes. The only case where the generic "weight back" has any real meaning. Hinged on the rear hip. My trouble is getting rid of the huge stride and the subsequent back foot drag. It seems more consistent to work in the fixed framework of no stride.
My two cents: 1. Stop calling it a stride, ie, stop worrying about what the front leg is doing, except to balance what the rear leg is doing. 2. Have her pick her front foot up and put it down as her trigger and to weight the rear leg. 3. As she picks front foot up, focus on coiling around her rear leg and pulling-back her top-half against it. Slow and early. Swing puts the front foot down. 4. Do that 10,000 times. 5. As she's more comfortable with those simple but proper loading mechanics, have her experiment with front leg: no-stride, leg-kick, tap-back, etc. etc. But if she focuses on front-leg FIRST before she gets the other stuff right she'll spend the rest of her career applying band-aids to that initial 'boo-boo.'
Actually I kind of like the term "pendulum loading", because in my head I'm picturing the lower half moving to and fro, with the head staying stationary.
Yes, I know the Lindor, and Goldy clips are a bit of a stretch to say they look like the an actual pendulum, but I'm looking at the term "pendulum loading" as more of a mental cue of loading underneath the head, and not moving the head back, and forth excessively as we tend to see in the "all back, all forward" loading pattern, and swing.
Idk, I might just be way off with it; but when I first read it when Ww initially posted it, I thought it sounded like something that could be used in some cases for some hitters who's heads move excessively when/while they're loading...or maybe not.
Great... Just what we need in the hitting forum... More terms to remember...
I jest. I think it is a good post too.
Yep..........but then there's this:
RdBass,
Is this something he does often? In any case it proves that the backside is in control and the stride really doesn't matter that much.
I'm going to use these two swings for the kids to watch and try to imitate.
I did these clips today for the kids to watch. I'm going to make a DVD with the same clips that they can watch.
