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Done-zo.
pm me too please or just post suggested dimensions.
Great tool... DD hasn't had a chance try it yet, but I have. All from neck slot, 10 practice swings and 10 swings off tee(high and low) with tool, and then 10 with bat. I'm probably not doing it perfect, but it felt great. This could be a key ingredient in my DD's swing who struggles with barrel path
How are you using it?
Sorry, not sure what you mean SCS. Unless you mean how am I swinging it? If that's case, very similar to what we see in the vids posted in this thread, 2 hands, not one
Swinging at wiffles on tee? Doing snap stops? Excited to hear about what you're feeling, so just trying to understand how you're using it to get those feels : )
Snap stops, plastic ball on tee. It just seems to simplify things, hope my DD has the same experience. During snap stops I also focus on keeping my head still.. I don't like how some the demos I've been watching how the kids head really tilts sideways prior to contact. This is what I did during my first session
With tool;
- Dry Snap stops from neck slot from a stable standing position,
- Snap stops from neck slot from a stable standing position with plastic ball on tee
- Snap stops from neck slot with a striding sequence with plastic ball on tee
- Snap stops from neck slot from a stable standing position with softball on tee. Don't think I will be asking my DD to many of those.. I found this a little hard on the wrist because the barrel wanted to progress forward. Maybe I'll ask her to do this drill @ 50%
- neck slot with a striding sequence with softball on tee
During each step, I just focused on maintaining the distance between my elbows.. strangely I found other body parts being engaged without having to think about it. It just seemed to simplify the swing. I felt like I was generating power, without having to focus on generating power. Just a nice smooth fast movement that was very sudden. At no time at all did I think about TTB. I also changed heights of the tee. I will probably start with high tee for my DD, she had a habit of dumping the barrel when trying something similar to this before.. that was my own fault when instructing her improperly
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So you were not applying force into the handle, during launch, during any of these drills, consciously or not? Remember some are advocating that this doesn't happen (including the drawing you made in the other thread) till later in the sequence. As I have said a million times maybe the reason the pros don't talk about TTB is because for them it is an unconscious action..If these drills give you a good deep barrel path with early bat speed without consciously thinking about using your hands but instead focusing on a movement pattern which forces that action then that is great...doesn't matter how you get there
.Next time you do the drills try and concentrate on what the hands are feeling when you do this ( I am not saying to consciously TTB, just what feeling you get in the hands when you do the drill as you have been doing it). If you don't feel like you are applying any force into the handle with the hands, try a couple where you do and see what that results in.
After you have written up your experimental results in the proper format (with references), come back and report
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