Me Too... its just a journal of the journey... she is going to be the best ... soon and even @ her worst, she can help others...w/ their confidence if nothing else
I'll comment later, right now I am looking for a post I made on another forum about Obamacare...jeez, I am not as qualified a politician as Obama, and I am no doctor, or insurance expert, I didn't even post a video of my son giving his 2nd grade presentation, wth was I thinking making a post. OH wait, I made a post on a Chevy forum about the fix I did on my Tahoe, I'm not a car builder, what was I thinking? Then theres the gardening site...boy following you guys' rules of who is allowed to post and what they are allowed to post when they can is a lot of work!
I don't believe any dad would do otherwise. However, what determines the high level swing? Does an "expert's" opinion on this site make Geri Ann's swing less than high level? Also, do you think that Coach Glasco looks at his daughter's swing and thinks it is terrible? Do you think he used a different system than the system that has gained him a tremendous reputation as a hitting coach? I recall this one dad and his model student who, in his opinion, matched Bond's swing and was THE MLB Swing. That didn't work out so well.
Paul Nyman once said that we are only capable of seeing what we are capable of seeing. That's a great statement. One might look at the ULL players and see what they consider to be high level MLB swings while another might look at those same swings and see totally the opposite. Of course I'm open to having the "experts" here post their work and show all of us their methods that have produced that high level swing that guarantees success.
Edited to add:
In anyone's opinion, how many videos of any given hitter would have to be viewed before judgement could be passed on that player's swing? Is one, three, five, ... enough?
It all boils down to whether or not your strong enough in your hitting philosophy to post your hitters or not. Personally I don't care if someone criticizes it.
There's A LOT of people who make comments on here but never post their work. To me that's dishonest. Post your work and show posters how your philosophy has worked out for your DD or quit commenting on others work.
Anyone can regurgitate hitting mechanics and philosophy, let's see how you implement your philosophy. Now when it comes to a student I totally respect their privacy and its up to their family to give permission to post.
I can't count the # of videos I've posted on here about my DDs journey and I won't stop. Is she perfect? NOPE but I'm pretty damn happy with where she's at right now.
I would love to see more of the advice givers on here post their DDs swings. Show us all what you teach and let the dialogue begin.
Sl onceOne thing I notice is wide stance and then big step. Hard to get good weight shift if you have both.
Wide stance short stride or narrower stance bigger step.
Howard does width of shoulders outside to outside then 1/2 again, then plus or minus 2 inches.
Say outside of shoulders are 16 inches. Half again...24 inches. Start there center to center of toes. increase or decrease 1-2 inches to see how swing works.
I mostly end up plus 2 for some reason.
SL
A very explosive swing. Athletic and strong kid. I'd love to see this hitter get a hold of one in a game!
Still, this looks like a tee swing and not a game swing. I am betting her game swing is better.
Often kids, especially when being filmed, try to kill the ball off the tee. All the typical symptoms appear here: back foot is pointed too far backward, I feel shoulders over rotate and arms get too far around back shoulder, bat wrapped around head, too much weight on back leg and thus a big lunge toward ball.
In games with hands that far back and lunging like that it's not going to work against good pitching.
When doing tee work, form is king. The ball isn't going to go out of the park, it's going to go into the net in the garage.
I think her body movements are fine.
But, she does what many girls do. Her bat is horizontal in her stance and at launch. Get the front elbow down more and lift the barrel up.