As a note, hopefully tomorrow we can work on incoming pitches. We just orders some total control hole balls. i have a few weighted balls we will use in the meantime, but this is next to get a moving target. I know her sequence is off, but i know her timing is worse. I am feeling once she gets her sequence down, she will know the feel, then she just needs to star that consistent feel earlier to get the timing down. .... well at least that is the hope.
Thanks again RD, this post was the basis of our work tonight. Let me know if we missed anything on the list. The pigeon tow may not be as prevelant as we used that as an initial guide to start the practice.
Just to be clear, this would effectively be pulling her leg forward towards the pitcher of which she would have to resist and keep the leg back not allowing it to be pulled to the pitcher? Not sure i have a long enough band but will look.
Thank you for the kind words. As i note above, this is exactly what we are working on. We are trying to work from middle. Can you help me understand where you see the rotation of the pelvis happening that we would try to eliminate? I see her sway a little back and forth but not sure that i see more than maybe some clockwise rotation (looking from above) of the hips before toe touch.I have to agree with Buttermaker here. IMO she needs resistance in her swing. The way to achieve this resistance is to allow the pelvis and back leg to be slaved to the middle. IOW the leg and pelvis are in a sense dead and do not move but they will get moved. I would probably spread her out some and start in an exaggerated staggered stance similar to Stanton’s closed off stance. If you move from the middle, the stance will help to inhibit the rotation of the pelvis and should help to feel cross body tension running through the torso (back hip to lead shoulder). I see a ton of potential in this young lady. IMHO she has "it" she just needs to get into a movement pattern that leverages her body better.
Can you see the tension being created across the torso in Altuva......
I agree, i was just happy she was better than last time (at least IMO). She understands what we are going for, now i think she just needs to 'feel' it. With Altuve he seems to be reaching out farther with his stride and subsequently straightening his back leg, where as my DD seems to still be twisting for a lack of better words. As DrD states, i will try to have her exaggerate and then we can pull back as needed.Fanboi, she appears to get fyb but then uses the legs to drive the swing vs using the legs as supporters of the middle driving the swing. Legs need to be used for leverage against the core stretch.
