10U DD Swings from Monday's BP Session

[quandofloo]

Just looking for a little guidance. We have worked on getting her weight over her feet a little better. Right now she is struggling with hitting a ton of hard ground balls.

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[JJsqueeze]

She has some good basics in place along with some pretty standard swing flaws for girls her age. i am not in the advice giving world, I am more of a receiver than a quarterback, but the hitting guys are busy in another thread talking about MLB stuff for the 4000th time so I figured i would chime in and bump this up for you until it gets their attention. they are a good lot but they cannot resist the urge to discuss a GIF of Pujols for days on end while us poor dads wither on the vine waiting for input.

 

[quandofloo]

She has some good basics in place along with some pretty standard swing flaws for girls her age. i am not in the advice giving world, I am more of a receiver than a quarterback, but the hitting guys are busy in another thread talking about MLB stuff for the 4000th time so I figured i would chime in and bump this up for you until it gets their attention. they are a good lot but they cannot resist the urge to discuss a GIF of Pujols for days on end while us poor dads wither on the vine waiting for input.

I assume that's the LSU thread. I stay out once the arguments start.

 

[JJsqueeze]

Usually once the GIF appears they are drawn like moths to flame, but sometimes you have to kick start them...

You should work with her to create a nice level swing, head down, shoulders even, knob to the ball....

 

[rdbass]

knob to the ball....

Throwing out the bait......chumming....

 

[rdbass]

Don't give much good advice but, if this was my DD I would work on getting rid of 'pointing the toes to china'.

 

[quandofloo]

Don't give much good advice but, if this was my DD I would work on getting rid of 'pointing the toes to china'.

That's a new development. It started when we started focusing on weight transfer. I figured it was better than telling her to squish the bug.

 

[JJsqueeze]

IF this doesn't work then nothing will, the Great American Tech Hitting Forum Addict cannot resist a Miggy GIF. This is dangerous baiting though, it might draw too many of them and a feeding frenzy will result.

 

[Eric F]

Don't give much good advice but, if this was my DD I would work on getting rid of 'pointing the toes to china'.

I don't hate the "toes to China" at this point in her development. There are much worse things the rear leg could be doing.

I would begin by learning about separation/stretch and getting away from the all-back/all-forward pattern.

Look at the timing and direction of Posey's hand movement prior to launch in relation to his stride.

 

[quandofloo]

So, get a bit bigger stride (which is something we talked about) and get the front foot down before the hips fire?