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If a parent is paying a hitting instructor, is it a coach's responsibility to say those mechanics are a hindrance to their daughter's progression as a batter?
If the kid has a private instructor, as a coach your view of her as a hitter is reflected in where she bats in the order and the number of ABs she is getting. The kid cannot be told one thing in practice and then the opposite thing when she goes to her lessons..that is just confusing. If the parents ask you why you are batting her where she is batting you can expound upon the mechanical issues which you think are effecting her performance and let them decide what they want to do. A kid's development is ultimately in the hands of the parents/kid.I'm mostly in the camp of, if you have a private instructor and the parents are happy then leave it alone and there are multiple ways to skin a cat, but this particular player has no sequence at all and has issues with timing. I've suggested incorporating either a step or pre-load (small changes) but the instructor doesn't want it. He recently said he doesn't want her participating in any coach front toss, because it's affecting her timing.
Without the coach actually knowing how and what the instructor is teaching the player there is a Chance the player is doing things that are not actually what the instructor is instructing.If a parent is paying a hitting instructor, is it a coach's responsibility to say those mechanics are a hindrance to their daughter's progression as a batter?
Uh oh. I'm close to your area. Which side of the river is the Killer located?Been there and done that. As I posted here before, there is an instructor in my community that should be called, "The Killer of Swings." We know instantly when we get a player who is going to this instructor. For us, those players don't have a choice but to do the team hitting stations that we identify for them. For example, all hitters will do front toss and in multiple stations. Hitting balls in flight is exactly how hitters learn timing. Those players eventually figure stuff out or they are out of our program. We have too many talented players in the program for those players to be more successful than.
Reality is that you could have a .500 hitter, put her swing and a video on this forum, and get all sorts of different feedbackIf a parent is paying a hitting instructor, is it a coach's responsibility to say those mechanics are a hindrance to their daughter's progression as a batter?
He is in my community. You're safe.Uh oh. I'm close to your area. Which side of the river is the Killer located?