- Jul 13, 2019
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I agree with the people that said that it can be good before the game if you have a limited area to warm up in. What I like to use to get the idea of hitting the ball hard is a heavy bag (the one that boxers use). I would have the hitter swing and hit the bag hard and then check to see where their body was at contact. I would check out their backside (not their butt), their back hip, their back foot. I wanted to see if they were unlocking their back hip and what they were doing with their back foot. My grand daughter is a big girl, but is not hitting the ball all that hard and I discovered that she is kind of squishing the bug with her back foot. If you do that you will have a tendency to open up too early. Watch her weight transfer. Does she transefer the weight from her back foot to her front foot and then rotate or does she rotate when her weight is istill on her back foot. If she pivots on her back foot she will fly open and have a hard time hitting the outside pitch.