Chris Delorit
Member
4 girl's dad,
You had a question about promoting keeping the barrel above hands relative to hitting a riseball...
In my opinion & experience, the trick is the rotation, or rolling of the top hand over the top at contact. The purpose is to alter the barrel location relative to the hand path just enough to be the difference in contact with a late jumping rise.
There are other attributes key to consistantly hitting the rise, including hands/bat positioning, reading spin, staying tall in posture, anticipation & strike zone, hand path and so on.
Grab a mirror & a bat, see if you can notice the difference for yourself.
Consistancy is an advanced skill, and can take an extraordinary amount of time to see results. That said, becoming consistant with squaring it can produce great results. Hint: Along with it's rising plane change, the 6-12 o'clock backspin of the pitch becomes a reverse 6-12 backspin at the contact, generating lift off the contact point.
Fiveframeswing mentioned a theory about "palm up, palm down" hand positioning in another thread, which could generally prove accurate in this scenario.
Chris
You had a question about promoting keeping the barrel above hands relative to hitting a riseball...
In my opinion & experience, the trick is the rotation, or rolling of the top hand over the top at contact. The purpose is to alter the barrel location relative to the hand path just enough to be the difference in contact with a late jumping rise.
There are other attributes key to consistantly hitting the rise, including hands/bat positioning, reading spin, staying tall in posture, anticipation & strike zone, hand path and so on.
Grab a mirror & a bat, see if you can notice the difference for yourself.
Consistancy is an advanced skill, and can take an extraordinary amount of time to see results. That said, becoming consistant with squaring it can produce great results. Hint: Along with it's rising plane change, the 6-12 o'clock backspin of the pitch becomes a reverse 6-12 backspin at the contact, generating lift off the contact point.
Fiveframeswing mentioned a theory about "palm up, palm down" hand positioning in another thread, which could generally prove accurate in this scenario.
Chris
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