Teaching the high level pattern

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Oct 13, 2014
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Fixed it for ya ;)

Nope. If you’re thinking back muscles. You’re on the wrong side of the body. The swing isn’t that long. It much shorter and quicker than that. We aren’t trying get around to deliver the barrel. The feel is much straighter to the ball. No need to think behind and through.
 
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Apr 20, 2018
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Borrow, NO that's a term used by Rich and his followers.. Rich forces supination of the top hand forearm while the best are able to whip the barrel from an adjustable hand pivot point.
Of course the HPP is adjustable. Even the Aaron Judge and Maddie adjust the HHP because nobody has absolute perfect timing. You may want the "feeling" of a constant HPP but that is not reality.
 
Apr 20, 2018
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@Borrowingminds

The problem lies within what powers the barrel. The hands? Or the core? If the core isn’t used, stretched out into foot down, one must compensate eg drag or push. Orrr use the hands and cast errr TTB. So with that being said, and seeing that the pro examples don’t match the TTB model; they prolly use the core stretch to power the swing, right? Process of elimination? It matches video right?
How about if we use both.
 

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Mar 11, 2010
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Of course the HPP is adjustable. Even the Aaron Judge and Maddie adjust the HHP because nobody has absolute perfect timing. You may want the "feeling" of a constant HPP but that is not reality.

I am referring to the phantom corner that needs to be maintained.. Bonds swings "down to" out front with no turning behind a corner.

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