Is rotation nonsense?

[Shawn]

Is rotation nonsense? Watching the game and watching how you could split the body right down the center creating the front and back, Frontal plane. This goes for both hitting and pitching.

 

[efastball]

 

[Cornbread]

You need rotation to clear a path for the hands.

 

[Shawn]

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This swing wasn’t the plane I’m talking about, lol.

 

[Shawn]

Ok, it’s a combination of planes.

 

[Shawn]

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I see the hips and shoulders turning together.

 

[julray]

You need rotation to clear a path for the hands.

And posture.. without posture a hitter will swing around the ball instead of through the ball

 

[Shawn]

Regardless of who coined the swing as rotational, I’ve heard nothing but rotation from the start.

 

[Bobby Shirer]

And posture.. without posture a hitter will swing around the ball instead of through the ball

What posture does Ted use? He was a dead pull hitter. Sounds like he swung around the ball.

 

[Bobby Shirer]

I see the hips and shoulders turning together.

Hips lead and take the slack out, then the shoulders get dragged together with the hip turn....when a hitter uses their legs to power their swing.