- Feb 7, 2013
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Me too !!!... What I'm focused on right now is that front foot. Straight, lands it on the heel, & comes up on the toe. I'm linking it to the roll-over of front foot in the swing...watch it (front foot) in this warm up, as she is warming up... kinda struggling to get it... like in the games clip...
You can see, that's a very deliberate move ...landing that front foot straight, in the gameshot. she also really puts on the brakes, and don't bleed forward like the warm up... kinda like GreenMonster, wanting to see a check swing with the swing... seeing a lot with warm-up, and a game together
To the OP... here is a 2 shots ... front & side to see palm up & to second base... @ 9:00... ??? Like the foot in the warm up...its not @ palm up to 2nd... its more like 3rd... :{))
Another thing that most of the great pitchers do with the arm circle is hide the arm and ball grip from view as the arm comes down the back of the circle. Very difficult for the batter to pick-up the ball until right before release. Pitchers that don't rotate the arm "palm to sky" around 9:00 and don't get heavy brush interference are "exposing" the arm and grip to the batter sooner (from 9:00 to 6:00) than the elite's like Ueno, Cat, and Abbott. You watch video from the catchers perspective there arm completely disappears until the last second. Elite pitchers do so many little things right that it adds up to greatness in the circle.
