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Thanks very much for the detail.
When teaching in person, I use the Epstein system and supplement it with arm action drills based on mankin's swing info and Hodge's throwing info.
More recently I have been doing almost exclusively analysis and teaching over that system of tubes called the internets.
The Epstein system is overall an excellent extension of the Williams SCIENCE OF HITTING approach which was the guide I used from1970 on playing wood bat into college and then coaching metal bat in college. I tried a lot of things with fastpitch in the 90's and then found Epstein to be the best overall additional info about 10 years ago, but it needs to be supplemented:
1- with Williams foundation -cock hips,cock hands,hips lead, hit with unbroken top hand wrist or definitely before wrists "roll", hips at 80-85%, hands at 100%
then epstein has excellent drills for core of swing, wind rubberband, drop and tilt.
put these together and you get:
cock hips, cock hands, wind rubberband, drop and tilt, swing.
2- arm/forearm action -The limitations here are the arm action when you do the drill progression with bat off deltoid which is what the mankin/Hodge info supplements, and
3- weight shift action - the last piece is the weight shift info which more recently has been supplemented very well (along with additional arm/forearm action info) at hittingillustrated.com.
here are some arm action drills which I use and which have helped others who I have worked with via the internet:
One arm back arm tip and rip/heavy bag:
Adding second arm, this is soft toss, but self toss can work too, ideally with emphasis on hitting hard OPPO:
Teacherman's HittingIllustrated.com
and for weight shift and arm action/synch, here is karaoke walkup:
http://www.hittingillustrated.com/library/mini4.gif
This last hitter was named best hitter/slugger at recent 14U world championships.
More recently, much more info and drills have been developed at hittingillustrated as shown here, for example:
- HI Atlanta Clinic Videos
These clips from youtube feature teacherman and swingbuilder who post at H-I and baseballdebate.
More about grip/roll to follow.
Thanks very much for the detail.
When teaching in person, I use the Epstein system and supplement it with arm action drills based on mankin's swing info and Hodge's throwing info.
More recently I have been doing almost exclusively analysis and teaching over that system of tubes called the internets.
The Epstein system is overall an excellent extension of the Williams SCIENCE OF HITTING approach which was the guide I used from1970 on playing wood bat into college and then coaching metal bat in college. I tried a lot of things with fastpitch in the 90's and then found Epstein to be the best overall additional info about 10 years ago, but it needs to be supplemented:
1- with Williams foundation -cock hips,cock hands,hips lead, hit with unbroken top hand wrist or definitely before wrists "roll", hips at 80-85%, hands at 100%
then epstein has excellent drills for core of swing, wind rubberband, drop and tilt.
put these together and you get:
cock hips, cock hands, wind rubberband, drop and tilt, swing.
2- arm/forearm action -The limitations here are the arm action when you do the drill progression with bat off deltoid which is what the mankin/Hodge info supplements, and
3- weight shift action - the last piece is the weight shift info which more recently has been supplemented very well (along with additional arm/forearm action info) at hittingillustrated.com.
here are some arm action drills which I use and which have helped others who I have worked with via the internet:
One arm back arm tip and rip/heavy bag:
Adding second arm, this is soft toss, but self toss can work too, ideally with emphasis on hitting hard OPPO:
Teacherman's HittingIllustrated.com
and for weight shift and arm action/synch, here is karaoke walkup:
http://www.hittingillustrated.com/library/mini4.gif
This last hitter was named best hitter/slugger at recent 14U world championships.
More recently, much more info and drills have been developed at hittingillustrated as shown here, for example:
- HI Atlanta Clinic Videos
These clips from youtube feature teacherman and swingbuilder who post at H-I and baseballdebate.
More about grip/roll to follow.
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