DD's video

[roscoe545]

DD is a 2017 grad, just turned 16. She has always been a worker and has
had some fairly solid mechanical training in the last 4 years imo.

She used to have a very wide open stance to start, but struggled with timing
against faster pitching. She has been working on a shorter, less open stance,
as of late.

See what you DFP pro's can do with this video and let me have the good,
bad and the ugly with her swing. I will try to get some better footage tomorrow.

Thanks guru's in advance for any help!!

http://youtu.be/n8b-i48d0bg

 

[chrispots]

Just curious...has she had her training at Baseball Rebellion?

DD reminded me of this:

CP

 

[coach james]

Just curious...has she had her training at Baseball Rebellion?

DD reminded me of this:

CP

Both of these girls are "look out" hitters.
They hit so freakin hard that defence says look out rather than making a play...

 

[Josh Greer]

I'll stand by and wait for one of the hitting mechanics guys to see something and comment. The only thing I can offer you is to have her start working on the Domingo Ayala chain pop and Jeffrey Leonard's one flap down. She hits the ball hard. Very nice.

 

[crankermo]

Roscoe,

She's way out of sequence. The upper half is ahead of lower and pulling the rear. The reason she struggles against velocoty is because all her bat speed is out front because there's no corner and she pushes her hand forward bad. She has no resistance/rag wringing. I would guess when she faces velocity she has to cheat to catch up to it and then is susceptible to off speed.

 

[straightleg]

I would say to much travel in her swing. Her head travels along way, which means her eyes are moving a lot.
With so much travel, she has too stand up in her swing to get her energy to the ball which like crank said is out front.


SL

 

[CoogansBluff]

Agree w/ Crankermo, although to me, the sequence is pretty good except for that one big thing - the hips don't lead enough. Hands and shoulders go too soon. That probably explains why the hitter appears kinda upright at contact, rather than a slight lean back, which leads to faster rotation. So I think as hard as she might hit the ball, that she could hit it harder. But the bigger issue w/ the sequence (hands & shoulders wanting to overtake the hips too soon) is that it makes it harder to time speed, IMO. Donny Buster's presentation explains this well, although can't find a copy.

 

[Buttermaker]

Very common issue of creating movement without resistance as way to move forward.

Using the pelvis to rotate.

 

[roscoe545]

Thanks for the reply's so far and keep them coming!!

I'll chime in later tonight...

 

[FiveFrameSwing]

Embrace the Holy Grail .... early and slow.