Howard is that the California study you mentioned to me a few weeks ago? I too would share Scotts concern on lunging if you push with the back leg. Especially if done after the front foot plants.
Howard is that the California study you mentioned to me a few weeks ago? I too would share Scotts concern on lunging if you push with the back leg. Especially if done after the front foot plants.
That is my observation as well.
Howard: I'm also confused about the bend in the rear knee. First, I see VERY FEW elite hitters whose rear knee is not quite flexed. I don't think that can be marginalized. Second, I don't understand the importance of the pressure plate readings, and definitely need help to evaluate that data. I understand the concept of more force being created with the rear leg. It seems to me - and if I'm wrong here, please correct me - that this would be purely linear force. I think momentum into rotation is huge, please understand that. But I think there may be diminishing returns at some point. Push too hard, and the momentum isn't going to easily get transfered into rotation. It's just going to be a linear force / lunge. Or so it seems to me.
Regards,
Scott
Howard is that the California study you mentioned to me a few weeks ago? I too would share Scotts concern on lunging if you push with the back leg. Especially if done after the front foot plants.
Dana
Yes that is the study.
You have seen what and how we teach and this and lunging or going over our front knee is not a concern. The ability too get the hitters to come up against the front leg was enhanced by putting the bucket in front of them and the block behind them. They feel it! They instinctively lock out/ firm up the lead foot knee. They learn to rotate into the front side. The concept is fairly simple it, the weight transfer, is accomplished during toe touch by not allowing the heel to plant too early and to be just on time working from the ground up. We teach what eversion is and how it feels by them hitting in their socks and at toe touch the baby toe should be of the ground slightly. Why do you think so many hitting instructors do not teach a linear weight shift in their swings? Do not get linear weight shift confused with linear hitting mechanics either. Look up in the dictionary, if you stride forward you stepped linear! Otherwise you stepped into or towards the plate or away. The girls do not for the most part flex their knee when hitting or throwing! I had one instructor tell one of my parents the girls are too stupid to learn this!
We pride our self by being able to teach what some do not understand and I make that statement with the utmost respect to the people on this board that we communicate with and you know me pretty well. Learning how to teach this has been a journey of and by itself and there has not been one book or video that has had it all and not one instructor has been THE person I learned from! I know by your being here to observe what and how we do it changed some of your methods to teaching or accepting why some things are a teach verses a non teach. You also offered me a different way to look at how I teach by giving me your way of thinking. By working with so many teaching me what and how they explain it and then trying with every kid or coach how to explain it and why we use the sequence we do appears to work. I will change it today if something we finds works better.
This is what we talked about Friday....finding the sequence by demonstrating leverage, grip, hammers and devices to get the hitter not just to see it, however to see it feel it and fix it! You can study all the video in the world and then try to explain and teach what you thought you observed to an LD kid. Those kids in most cases get lost just when reading and that is no joke. My LD kids get to take tests in school orally because the letters in some case get reversed from also being dyslexic.
Instructions read: circle your best answer and they see it as circle your dest answer! What does dest answer mean? We have not even started the test and the directions are confusing. This is why we use mirrors and gadgets as they must stand alone in the batters box and no one can help them. We do what some say can not be done because we have a unique way of presenting it to unique kids.
Thanks Howard