Grip
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Here is Albert with the hook of the index finger and a team usa player / same grip as Howards's student.
Team USA player - plays with Crystal.
Howard and Crystal do clinics.
They have the same grip.
My daughter has the same grip. Funny how all that works together.
I wonder if Albert was talking with Crystal?
Straightleg
Team USA player - plays with Crystal.
Howard and Crystal do clinics.
They have the same grip.
My daughter has the same grip. Funny how all that works together.
I wonder if Albert was talking with Crystal?
Straightleg
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If grip wasn't important Easton wouldn't be making the Turbo Slot Gloves. The kids could feel and hear the difference last night in the cage.
We teach how to hold the bat in the top hand so the bat is not located in the back of the hand where the index finger and thumb meet.
We want the bat angled from the index finger pad across the hand in the top hand and so the index finger looks like a hook so to speak and the thumb is not resting on the index finger or clamped down on it.
Bottom hand the bat is held in the area where the fingers meet at the palm of the hand and then the thumb can rest over the index finger.
The knuckles will be off set a little so the top hand knuckles as a right handed hitter will be offset to my wedding ring a little.
To test for does it make a difference.
Come to your POC (point of contact) and stop and have some someone gently push rearward on your bat and see if you can offer resistance with your grip.
Now try what we described and you should be able to feel the difference in my opinion.
In my opinion you will feel the transition of the bat from connection to bat lag is much easier to control.
Thanks Howard
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Dan
In my opinion they never read the instructions as they place the bat on the pad verses pinch the pad with the thumb to the index finger and then the bat is out in front of the index finger pad automatically.
Howard
So True. It never fails I have to show them how to use them and then you ask did you read the instructions? You get this lost puppy look. I bought a pair so I had the instructions and could show kids how they work. It hurt my feelings to spend money on an Easton product!.
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