- Sep 29, 2014
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Obviously you understand exactly what is going on hopefully she does too...sounds like it the hard part is to isolate that moment in the swing toe touch to heel drop and get the rotation started without as much glide forward and even more importantly make that small adjustment without impacting the rest of her swing which looks pretty great....good luck and congrats to her she is looking good and I'm sure you are proud of her accomplishments.Great thoughts/ She actually thinks TTB and rotational...at least that was the foundation we had been working with through about 16y/0. We noticed, however, the back arm (top hand) getting trapped to her side so we started to work with TTB at launch and then finishing long and thus more linear as she reasonably could. And to use her shoulders more like a tilt-a-whirl rather than a merry go round. All of that was primarily upper body stuff.
The lower half focus has been primarily - get into (coil, an inward turn, whatever) into the rear hip, then create separation at toe touch, then rotate into the ball as the heal dropped.
What tends to happen is at heal plant she will drift forward before/as rotation occurs which can create a less than optimal path. The "Nike swish will occur as she is drifting forward reducing the effectiveness or rotation and potentially creating a bad path.