- May 16, 2019
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Coiling or forward by coiling is important but often neglected or missed is holding the coil in to leg snap
I certainly appreciate everyone’s input. This pitch was a little up, and I do see him raising up prior to this release. I’m attaching another swing from the same day that he was also under (inside of) that was lower he didn’t come out of posture as far as I can tell. (The only pitch he missed all day)
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Some one mentioned it earlier, but i see him as dropping hands, pinning rear elbow to side, and spinning tight against the body with no release/extension. I am going thru my own journey with DD so just know i am not a professional. Just trying to learn on my journey. I try not to get caught up in the dialogue and the different terms. I only want to help others take what i think i learned and use it or not.
First two pics show to me that he is moving the barrel back and down before heal plant and any launch of the swing. I would assume this is contributing to his being under the ball. ie he is starting the swing before he should. My DD struggles at this and she has issues getting under and flaring the ball.
Start of move forward.
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Heal plant.
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Elbow pinned.
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Still pinned.
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pinned and spinny
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still pinned and barrel knob is tight to midsection.
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I don't necessarily agree that the premovement is causing all the issues. He actually squats first then starts his negative move and move out. I don't see his head moving too much at all. But again that's just me. If you see in all the frames, 'during' the swing his head stays pretty well put. He comes up a little right at initiation but not sure if that is the torso turn/spine tilt result. I see him slotting his elbow too early pulling the hands down and he cant recover as he is swinging up pretty hard based on arms and barrel position.
With my DD she had a lot of spin in her swing as well and we worked on getting the hands away from the body to release the barrel, not to try and use the waist as leverage to swing the barrel. I used the inverted top hand drill where the top hand was only resting there and not gripping the barrel. This helps her use the lead arm to level and plane while forcing her to lock in connection on the initial turn then 'push' the hands to the ball and release the barrel.
For the hands dropping, Justin Stone has a good drill that is 1 drill to fix 5 flaws. The bat in hand starts midline and as the hitter moves out, the hands move up and back until launch helping create separation and not allowing the hands to drop before launch. reminds me i have to use this one on DD again.
good luck.