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julray, have you uploaded video of her swings? I think that's the best place to start if you haven't already. Lots of good minds here to help.
julray, have you uploaded video of her swings? I think that's the best place to start if you haven't already. Lots of good minds here to help.
I have a strong, athletic DD who has tons of bat speed, but she is not very coordinated.
Don't take this the wrong way but a major component of being athletic is being coordinated...
Anyway, I've said this to you before I think. For the next month or so just throw her a bunch of front toss and just let her hit with the only objective being to try and barrel
up as many balls as possible. If she really is as athletic as you say she will figure out how to get her barrel to the ball. At that point you can go about
fine tuning her swing again to add more power/adjustability. Your DDs tee swings (I don't remember if you posted a live ball swing) looked very
robotic to me. Just let her swing for a while with the only goal being what I mentioned....
No offense taken ..lol. However let me explain a little better. 2 years ago she walked onto a travel ball team (Rep tier 1 here in Canada) and instantly could throw harder than anybody, hit the ball harder and was one of the fastest on the team.. she's athletic, just clumsy and awkward sometimes. Played sports all my life, I know a lot of athletic people like that.
I didn't post any live swings.. but let me get back to what I originally asked. I am looking for a simple drill for turning the barrel. We've been doing front toss all winter long, she's barreling up for the most part pretty good. I am looking to improve. She looks robotic hitting of the tee because she is thinking too much.. my fault unfortunately. Simple drill for turning the barrel should make things a little easier and not think too much.
No offense taken ..lol. However let me explain a little better. 2 years ago she walked onto a travel ball team (Rep tier 1 here in Canada) and instantly could throw harder than anybody, hit the ball harder and was one of the fastest on the team.. she's athletic, just clumsy and awkward sometimes. Played sports all my life, I know a lot of athletic people like that.
I didn't post any live swings.. but let me get back to what I originally asked. I am looking for a simple drill for turning the barrel. We've been doing front toss all winter long, she's barreling up for the most part pretty good. I am looking to improve. She looks robotic hitting of the tee because she is thinking too much.. my fault unfortunately. Simple drill for turning the barrel should make things a little easier and not think too much.
Gotcha. Part of the clumsiness is probably due to growing. A video of her hitting front toss would probably help. With regards to drills, the one rdbass posted (post #36)is a good one. When my DD wasn't resisting tee drills she liked to do that one after I showed her Julio Franco