Let’s Talk Timing

[Work=wins]

The core/torso/middle. The hand/wrist release/launch the barrel and make adjustments. The hand go last.

That’s drag. those things are accumulators not speed PRODUCERS. Every good hitter talks about their hands. Why? Bc it holds the damn bat? I don’t think so. Our hands are our fastest asset, correct? In every other speed skill it seems to be true. Why not hitting?

 

[Cornbread]

Lol..I meant Teacherman. I was making a joke since a lot of that was TM-speak

I like and use a lot of what he teaches. He does teach hands first which I think is spot on with the body reacting to the hands. Get to a loaded launch position on time and let the hands dictate the swing. I know he’s hated around here or adored. So many different swings out there. Getting a player to find theirs is being a good hitting coach

 

[_MIA_]

I like and use a lot of what he teaches. He does teach hands first which I think is spot on with the body reacting to the hands. Get to a loaded launch position on time and let the hands dictate the swing. I know he’s hated around here or adored. So many different swings out there. Getting a player to find theirs is being a good hitting coach

I don’t hate anybody..well myself sometimes but that’s it.

 

[Work=wins]

I like and use a lot of what he teaches. He does teach hands first which I think is spot on with the body reacting to the hands. Get to a loaded launch position on time and let the hands dictate the swing. I know he’s hated around here or adored. So many different swings out there. Getting a player to find theirs is being a good hitting coach

Ok. Well this is closer to my thinking. I still don’t agree w some of his path stuff. That’s why I was wondering when you said the ‘hands drive things’. They launch and direct the swing w the HLP method or am I misunderstanding you?

 

[Work=wins]

@Rolling Hard ‘the middle moves you’ is all fine and dandy. It’s true. Counter rotation back and forth is locomotion. But it doesn’t launch your swing. At least not at a high mlb level.

 

[BigSkyHi]

I understand your point but for what I have done, I have used people like Pujols as examples for my hitters. I believe The Science of Hitting is a rock-solid reference for all hitting. I am positive that great examples are out there for the use of female hitters. Lauren Chamberlain was one example many used a few years ago. Old habits die hard and so, I repeat what I have repeated countless times here.

Hear ya coach. Have been looking for small variances in the lower half of the body from feet through the hips that may accommodate for the variance in structure.

Stride foot clearing hips?




Small kid vs big kid. Lot of difference in lower half?




Freaks of nature? Show numbers to short stop and not pitcher?




If we fixed her would we have broken her?

 

[Shawn]

She hit for a pretty low average this year.

Low average with some power. The mechanics fit the bill.

 

[Shawn]

This is hip shoulder separation, bat behind the body hips fully turned and then upper unwinds. It does snap fast the bat. Is this high level? Something you see in high level MLB hitters? I’ve seen it before.

Is she making an adjustment or is she not ttb rearward soon enough? Waits until later?



Is this a long swing?
Video says 62 mph, from 35 ft.

Yes, this is a long swing. Yes the bat is trapped because of the slop in the launch, long sequence. She starts early, ball is way out front.

She hit that one a mile.

This just shows there are different ways to swing a bat in college. She isn’t drive the hands push, which you see in HS level.

 

[Shawn]

Watched a little D2 softball national championship. The swings were very different, pitching as well.

 

[Cannonball]

Watched a little D2 softball national championship. The swings were very different, pitching as well.

How so?