I would spend sometime working on pre-swing actions that will allow them to get into a dynamic fyb leveraged hitting position like Carp, with no ball.. Once they are in the position grab there hands and barrel and have them work on contracting the core (ballistic) move. Once they own the movement (May take many days) then throw in a ball.. They should be able to tell by feel if they were able to get into the position before whipping the barrel if they own it..
Agree. But you would agree just telling a kid that you need to make sure you are dynamically balanced, e.g. balanced throughout your swing sequence, isn't really helpful for kids who in fact have an imbalanced move out ingrained in their pattern. To them that feels correct. In fact you might as well just tell a kid you need to hit wellBeing balanced is a result of proper movement.
While it may seem that a hitter would seek movement which keeps them balanced, this requires some level of body awareness. When kids start to hit, e.g. at a younger age, they may not have a sufficient amount of this in order for them to develop naturally into a balanced movement pattern and hence bad movement patterns may become ingrained. Now you might say that kids inherently know what is balanced and what isn't as they learn this when they learn to walk. However in that case there are no external factors (such as a moving ball coming at them).
As they get older, and develop more body awareness, kids may naturally evolve to balanced movements or they may not. In reality in kids who actually hit a lot (e.g. my kid) at a younger age, it may actually be more difficult for this to happen (since the pattern has been ingrained over a large amount of reps) and instead more intervention may be necessary. Not sure, just thinking out loud here
Agree on all of this. Bolded is key and for some kids you can replace the word game with "a moving ball".
I took the Trout video you posted, explained to her she was reaching with her foot and not gaining ground with her middle. We worked on it and she struggle a bit to understand how to stay balanced and back while moving forward. What helped her was driving the back knee down more. She was driving it forward more instead of down. Once the back knee got down she gained the balance needed.
