Rock the U

I’ve read a few times about this term and have seen it described, but curious if this is an absolute? In working with DD and trying to make her swing “look” right and by exercising the Hanson principle it seems there is often a consistent locked triangle from the elbow to elbow and up to wrists. It would seem to me the feel I get on loading the scap is this locked rocking feel which also gives the look of a ‘tip and rip’. It is not a specific move of Only loading the scap, or at least that is how I feel.

This concept then seems consistent with the recent threads on getting bat to some vertical angle before launch and the thought of connection. If you rock this locked triangle back and then ‘launch’ or rock the U forth with the connection to torso and not allowing the triangle to become unlocked, it would seem to me I feel more of this ‘connection’ and the only way you can get the barrel moving is with connection. Otherwise the hands start doing their own thing.

Combine this with rigid wrists it creates the affect of THT and BHT and the snapping of the barrel. Or with the combination of active forearms that create that wrist action helping the whole connected triangle move. Just feeling all this has to be done in concert with each other.

Again, just a noob here and doing as Dwight Twilley band does in ‘Looking for the Magic’.

There was a sports science clip someone showed of Miggy that showed this IMO.

Just curious if this makes sense or if I am still way off base.

Rocking the U isn't the absolute, so much as it is a way to arrive/pass-through a favorable swing launch orientation, which IMO would be more of the absolute you are after.

FiveFrameSwing said:

Rocking the U isn't the absolute, so much as it is a way to arrive/pass-through a favorable swing launch orientation, which IMO would be more of the absolute you are after.

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Is that ‘Rocking the U’? Keeping a rigid triangle? Or can you rock the u with a lax bottom. Think of holding a length of rope with each hand holding an end. Having the u form around knee level. If you slide the hands left and right the U kinda lags back and forth.

Does rocking the u require rigid arms/wrists? At least until release to the ball?

This has been the only way I have really felt any connection by making that triangle rigid at launch and then releasing hands to go get the ball. Thanks.

:35 thru 1:15 on this video is linda what I was thinking.

https://youtu.be/H0VPkJSiO0c

fanboi22 said:

Is that ‘Rocking the U’? Keeping a rigid triangle? Or can you rock the u with a lax bottom. Think of holding a length of rope with each hand holding an end. Having the u form around knee level. If you slide the hands left and right the U kinda lags back and forth.

Does rocking the u require rigid arms/wrists? At least until release to the ball?

This has been the only way I have really felt any connection by making that triangle rigid at launch and then releasing hands to go get the ball. Thanks.

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No, during the Rocking-of-the-U the forearms should have a 'feeling' of being limp. Structure along the forearms will be established when you go to use the 'hands'.

No, Rocking-the-U does not require rigid arms/wrists. Quite the opposite. Forearms should be 'limp'. Wrists should be 'oily'.

I believe the 'connection' you feel is that of the slack being taken out of the torso correctly, and then the use of the torso engine having more immediate action on the barrel. That does not mean the torso should be 'tight' during the Rocking-of-the-U ... more it needs to be relatively loose so that it is quick ... slack removal should not have the torso being rigid.