Swing down

[Shawn]

Is this swinging down or swinging more Ferris wheel?

 

[Cornbread]

Hand set is high, pitch is low. Nowhere to go but down.

Not hijacking but that front foot down early stuff just looks rough

 

[efastball]

Not hijacking but that front foot down early stuff just looks rough

He's not striding, really. He starts his forward move after he puts his front foot down - then he coils inward nicely.

His stride/move is sort of a cross between Clint Frazier and Babe Ruth, and his high hands are like Bryce Harper.

 

[TDS]

Is this swinging down or swinging more Ferris wheel?

The best are swinging "down to" the plane of the pitch. This is the core acton and lateral tilt will be the result.

 

[FP26]

Is this swinging down or swinging more Ferris wheel?

Based on my understanding of what the "swing down" folks say, this seems to fit their model pretty well.

Based on my understanding of what the "ferris wheel" folks say, this seems to fit their model pretty well.

 

[Shawn]

The only problem I have with swinging down is that the barrel works back up at contact. The barrel doesn’t continue to work down like many hitters demonstrate.

 

[Shawn]

Hand set is high, pitch is low. Nowhere to go but down.

Not hijacking but that front foot down early stuff just looks rough

Yes, and the barrel is pretty vertical and stays vertical.

 

[efastball]

MLB hitters do not hump like this guy. Come on, man. Rabbits do this.

 

[TDS]

MLB hitters do not hump like this guy. Come on, man. Rabbits do this.
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This move is what helps tie the "down to" that the pros speak of.. Not a perfect match but as close as I have seen describing.. Missing the hips extending against the "down to".


Hips extending against the "down to"

 

[Mudders Brudder]

The only problem I have with swinging down is that the barrel works back up at contact. The barrel doesn’t continue to work down like many hitters demonstrate.

Personally, I think it's simply talking points as to what one's looking at, and saying what about which.

If you look at these hitters' hands, then yes, from the handset at or above their shoulders, they do move their hands "down" or "swing down" (good luck teaching that to young developing hitters).

But if you look at the barrel path, it indeed does more of the "ferris wheel" (although I don't particularly like that term), as to moves "behind and through" the ball...not "down and to" it as the hands "swing down" will ultimately produce with young hitters.