The swing was spent early, pushing is all she had left. For 200ft fences the swing doesn't have to be perfect.
12U Hitting "Slump"
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- May 3, 2014
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To stay on that pitch she needed to decelerate. Almost like trying to check the swing but way too late in the swing.
FiveFrameSwing
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The onus is on you to explain why the barrel movement is so different for a swing that is already over.
FiveFrameSwing
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When you teach such a push-like swing, which I generally refer to as 'clubbing', you build-in barrel deceleration into the swing. The hitter then must swing with the built-in deceleration that they have embedded into their swing.
Maybe a pull hitter, who stepped open, and this was the only 'adjustment' she knew how to make to keep the bat in the zone longer.
A hitter who knows how to hit the ball where it's pitched.
I don't know about this 'deceleration' that you speak of. I'm thinking you may be confusing that the swing is on 'auto pilot' after launch but, not decelerating going into the ball. Even after launch of the swing there still is some 'fine tuning' adjustments made toward/to the ball. Not something I would be 'teaching'(deceleration). Again I could be wrong.
A hitter who knows how to hit the ball where it's pitched.
I don't know about this 'deceleration' that you speak of. I'm thinking you may be confusing that the swing is on 'auto pilot' after launch but, not decelerating going into the ball. Even after launch of the swing there still is some 'fine tuning' adjustments made toward/to the ball. Not something I would be 'teaching'(deceleration). Again I could be wrong.
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When you teach such a push-like swing, which I generally refer to as 'clubbing', you build-in barrel deceleration into the swing. The hitter then must swing with the built-in deceleration that they have embedded into their swing.
That's training a hitter to be a contact hitter in MHO.
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Maybe a pull hitter, who stepped open, and this was the only 'adjustment' she knew how to make to keep the bat in the zone longer.
A hitter who knows how to hit the ball where it's pitched.
I don't know about this 'deceleration' that you speak of. I'm thinking you may be confusing that the swing is on 'auto pilot' after launch but, not decelerating going into the ball. Even after launch of the swing there still is some 'fine tuning' adjustments made toward/to the ball. Not something I would be 'teaching'(deceleration). Again I could be wrong.
I wouldn't teach it either. You know the college strike zone is chalk to chalk so getting to that pitch would require some sort of adjustment.
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I would prefer an out from swing like the one on the left. Check the elbow spacing compared to right side
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FiveFrameSwing
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Maybe a pull hitter, who stepped open, and this was the only 'adjustment' she knew how to make to keep the bat in the zone longer.
A hitter who knows how to hit the ball where it's pitched.
I don't know about this 'deceleration' that you speak of. I'm thinking you may be confusing that the swing is on 'auto pilot' after launch but, not decelerating going into the ball. Even after launch of the swing there still is some 'fine tuning' adjustments made toward/to the ball. Not something I would be 'teaching'(deceleration). Again I could be wrong.
The act of stopping the barrel from pivoting around the hands results in the barrel decelerating.
FiveFrameSwing
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Not IMO. I have contact hitters (i.e., hitters that routinely shoot for line-drive doubles to the gaps) and decelerating the barrel into & through impact isn't in their swing mechanic.
This results from being trained by someone that lacks an misunderstanding of how a barrel is squared by a barrel pivoting about the hands/wrists.
