- Apr 11, 2015
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I personally don't use the terms to define the swing/punch in that manner of speaking.The uppercut is one legged and the overhand is two legged???
I use "one-legged" as a thought process that in the "move out" or the "forward" part of the swing sequence, the majority of the weight is carried forward on or with the rear/one leg, with the lead leg working in support or unison with it to assist in keeping/maintaining the weight "back" during that portion of the process.
Then as or when the hitter begins set or lower down, I believe that he does so into both or two legs, and it's against those two legs that he begins shifting, and leveraging the swing into. So I don't really believe that a swing is ever just "one-legged" or "two-legged", but rather works from one into the other.
But what I don't want, is for a hitter to use "two legs" to stride with, using their lead leg in that portion of the sequence to guide them forward and their rear one as a tipping point to be pulled off of, thus shifting their weight onto the lead leg, and subsequently swinging from there.
Hope that at least sort of answered your question.