Anyone know of any good point of contact drills.
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Sorry, I’ll try to find some practice videos to get a better angle. But, all of her hits are to right Center or right. Just assumed she’s late. Maybe she has an inside out swing type of thing?
Searching for more pop. She definitely lets it travel. Sometimes too much and then she’ll pound it into the ground. She has four HRs but most of her hard hits are what you see in the video.
When she tries to “hit it out front “ she tends to hit weak ground balls to 3rd or a bloop type hit over short.
Sounds to me like she reaches when she tries to hit it out front, due to being too early, and most likely running out of barrel causing her to hit it off the end of the bat. Her bat path looks pretty good to me. “Don’t take a .400 hitter and make them a .200 hitter” always applies! The ability to be “on time” while also allowing the ball to get deep, is something nearly every hitting coach is searching for. Maybe others have some simple mental ques other than “hit it out front”. I hate that que.
That’s exactly what happens. She’s almost straight armed at contact when people tell her to get it out front. She looks uncomfortable.
Should we just continue to work on increasing bat speed, etc. She does tend to be front side dominant. Trying to work on that.
trifecta!(inside joke w myself!) there is no initial separation. I think a sequential change will pay big dividends.
I use a few different drills to get this done. all depends on whatever sticks w the kid best. What she’s missing is the first moment of separation.
you need to make the hands create more stretch so they can plane deeper and create deeper acceleration via the core(obliques). Then the barrel will have a chance to get loaded. You basically need a core stretch in both directions.
this will also balance the move better and the frontside dominant landing position should disappear.
I use a tip drill w the hands gathering the swing. The hands will gather the body and drift back ever so slightly creating separation.
or a more deliberate move where the hands drift back from the midline and gather the swing.
the back leg will get weighted. The forward move occurs while the hands still drift back a bit. this helps one to stay ‘back’.
This is what happens! It’s due to being early and coming out posture. The hitter straightens arms out to try prevent running out of barrel due to head coming up and barrel going left. I’ve had hitters do this that will slow the barrel down to keep from swinging and missing early.
I think she can get some more pop from controlling her stride more with the rear leg and starting a little sooner. She will still need to let the ball get deep but I think controlling more with the back leg will create a more explosive swing. JMO
