DJ - I don't think ANYONE is advocating that spinning on the toe is correct.
What happens at the back foot is a RESULT of doing other things correctly. A "push with the rear foot" cue puts the center of the action in the wrong place....IMO.
Well guess I'm in the minority but I'll stay that way, if you think you can coil, engaging your hip properly, release and uncoil and none of it has to do with the pressures being exerted onto your foot properly and that you can spin on your toe and it will all work out fine because you are doing everything else right...good luck. Maybe it is just a cue I'm using that you don't think is needed because you are using another cue that automatically negates having to use the instep push cue and that is fine because different hitters learn differently but hopefully we would all agree that we should not be teaching a spin/squish cue.
Some have said Bonds was close to a spinner/bug squishier.
Yee is spinner here:
That's why I don't place emphasis on the rear foot/toe.
Here is where the 'emphasis' should be 'placed':
I see that you are trying to get the thread back on track. So, you think that moving the tee back will change this hitters swing and take away the spinning, top down swing.
RD, I think that I am not smart enough to know how a hitter's swing looks if they are hitting off a tee when not in an optimum position for that tee. LOL Get that tee far enough out in front and the hitter will look like someone made them look silly with a change up.
Take a look at Eric's Post and the video of Stone's foot at the beginning of the video. (Go to 1:13 and look at where Stone's front foot is.)Where is the ideal location to place the tee relative to the plate if just working on basic mechanics?
This has been helpful for a few people...