I LOVE IT when Coach Mike gets fired up.You ok Mike?
Teaching the high level pattern
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Haha like when I told my manager, I’m not mad!!!! I’m just a passionate person… No, she didn’t buy it either.
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So Albert says to stay closed, but then proceeds to open up when he swings the bat.
Unless he means that as a mental cue to not open up "early".I personally see it as he is not staying closed and dragging the knob across even though he may be thinking mentally as knob to the ball.
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So Albert says to stay closed, but then proceeds to open up when he swings the bat.
I personally see it as he is not staying closed and dragging the knob across even though he may be thinking mentally as knob to the ball.
If you keep the shoulder closed, basically hitting/swinging against it, this helps fling the barrel forward. The core needs to be tightened from both ends. If you listen and look carefully to AP in the tweet he says what I’m saying.
You might see opening. But they’re trying to stay closed. Look for the shoulder moving after the hands. Also look for adduction . It’s there in every great hitter. This lets the core pull the shoulders around. That’s how you ‘pull’ hit. Not slice or drag/inside out it.
When you understand it you will see the moment of quickness is at ‘shoulder rotation’ not the barrel turning. That is a wild goose chase that has fooled too many.
How many pros have we posted/seen saying the same thing? They really don’t know what they do? Come on. Silly cop out by the snake oil salesmen aka hitting gurus. They just don’t understand. Let common sense and your eyes be your guide.
It’s all right in the AP tweet. He addresses getting forward. He wants to back the ball up and whip the barrel. ‘That’s it’ he says. It’s pretty much athleticism, reaction and recall from there. You don’t make up mechanics bc you’re not athletic. You do what the best do and let the chips fall where they may. Not everyone can compete at this level. And that’s ok.
Most of the coaches from that era in my area preached hands. "Hands to the ball", "keep your hands back", and "hands are the trigger" were all common cues. Instruction was not as detailed as it is today and we did not use slow motion video or the other gadgets that are available today. The majority of the training was about timing and using the hands.
So Albert says to stay closed, but then proceeds to open up when he swings the bat.
I personally see it as he is not staying closed and dragging the knob across even though he may be thinking mentally as knob to the ball.
IMO, this is an inside pitch based upon reading the catcher and where the glove is postioned.. I would think that on opening maybe a little early can be attributed to pitch location??
Video for both learning and teaching IMO is a game changer. A player makes an adjustment and says , I don’t know what I did but it felt different. With video you can capture and see that moment in time. The learning process takes place on a different level. I video every lesson I do that and break it down with the student while in the lesson, so she can continue to adjust and apply things. Nothing unique but the ability to do that is…video capture 30 years ago when my kids were playing sports was unheard of.
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My issue with this argument is that their game swings look completely and totally different than whatever they're doing when they're demonstrating/explaining.
Like, night and day different. Almost no aspect of the swing looks even similar.
And none of them have ever seemed to even try to explain why that is.
I also go back to this: There are likely hundreds, maybe thousands, of very good softball pitchers who explain pitching exactly wrong. That's not even up for debate at this point. So if it happens there, why can't that happen with hitters, too?
