Working on making contact deeper
Haley
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A side note this young lady Randi Farricker played for me at Glendora high school. One of the nicest and hardest working kids you’ll ever meet. To be clear, I had nothing to do with her success
This has taken a while to get comfortable with being slow and early but. the upside is worth it.
Let's start at the end and work our way back.
1. She swings 'up', so what causes that?
2. See the green line? Her hips are angled way, way up. They should be flat. What caused that?
3. See the yellow line? Her head has barely moved ahead of her back foot.
The initial problem is that she strides with her front leg, not the back. You must stride forward from the back foot. Then you must land with a (much more) bent front leg, with your hips level with the ground.
How to fix:
1. Stride with the rear leg about 3 inches further.
Do dry stride drills (stance to toe touch, no ball) over and over and over, and exaggerate landing on a very bent front knee. Look down and see where your head is. Mark a line in the dirt, or put down some tape.
Like what efast said. Tell her to keep her head between her hips
I'm not a fan of "head between the hips". For my DD, the critical moment having her head over her rear hip at launch, and pulling back over the hip. If she's forward of her rear hip, things aren't good.
Here's a couple of other guys...
These frames are: Left - Toe touch, Center - Launch/heel down, Right - Contact
Here's a couple of other guys...
These frames are: Left - Toe touch, Center - Launch/heel down, Right - Contact
Head between hips during move out. Not for everybody but she’s definitely reaching with the front foot during the stride. Que of head between hips “could” help. You can keep the hips tighter during the move out by keeping the head between them which can help rotational forces
We work on moving forward a bit. A benefit I saw was she was using more pullback as a way to control the forward move.
So, we did some flips also. The big takeaway including the level hips was her pullback with the upper torso.
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