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RayR
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2 things re: these quotes:
1. Is this not simply a throwing model? Can you throw 90 without using your legs or throw a strike from the OF to Home standing still?
2. From a teaching standpoint with the added pressure of your players wishing to be successful in games and not just hit bombs in BP - if you don't correct the way most of our hitters use their hands....then what point is it to learn how to rotate correctly....
High Level Hitting below....ADJUSTING to what the pitcher is throwing at you....
The SECRET OF HIGH LEVEL HITTING is; timing the use of the hands to the energy flowing up from the ground AFTER the legs supply the main energy.
If you don't use the legs and core properly, you won't even get it to the warning track, even with good hand use.
The rotating torso is the primary power source.
1. Is this not simply a throwing model? Can you throw 90 without using your legs or throw a strike from the OF to Home standing still?
2. From a teaching standpoint with the added pressure of your players wishing to be successful in games and not just hit bombs in BP - if you don't correct the way most of our hitters use their hands....then what point is it to learn how to rotate correctly....
High Level Hitting below....ADJUSTING to what the pitcher is throwing at you....
Sit on your butt in the batter's box, with your chest facing the pitcher and your feet in front of you. See how far you can hit the ball with the arms and hands.
The SECRET OF HIGH LEVEL HITTING is; timing the use of the hands to the energy flowing up from the ground AFTER the legs supply the main energy. You can hit the warning track with dead hands. Well timed, proper use of the hands will get it over the wall. The hands are the last link, not the first, and they are a small source of force.
If you don't use the legs and core properly, you won't even get it to the warning track, even with good hand use.
The rotating torso is the primary power source. Or, if you just want to talk in plain English, just listen to Ted Williams, "the hips lead the way."
The torso is moved by the legs.
I'm still waiting for your answer to my question about the front leg. If it supplies no power, how come you can't hit it over the fence while standing on the back leg only? Or, maybe YOU can. Let me know.
Stand on your back leg like the one-legged golfer and hit some baseballs or softballs off of a tee and see how well you do.
Then you can even coil and use that back leg like you believe and push while maintaining coil, off of just the back leg. I'll even let you drop the front leg to catch all that momentum, with one condition. You have to hit the ball before the front foot touches down. Tell me how that works out.
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