agreed. I dont want a holding of the bottom hand wrist hinge either. I want the knob pointed to the inside half of the ball no matter where it’s located. Griffey’s explanation coupled with the Barry video is how I see it.
Talk about the palm
agreed. I dont want a holding of the bottom hand wrist hinge either. I want the knob pointed to the inside half of the ball no matter where it’s located. Griffey’s explanation coupled with the Barry video is how I see it.
Talk about the palm
A lot of hitting tips. Mostly with the hands.
A lot of hitting tips. Mostly with the hands.
A lot of hitting tips. Mostly with the hands.
Julray, I am a big advocate of active hands, a tip and rip type movement. IMO, it's akin to working a bullwhip, it's not about setting the lag but rather about the change of direction (supported by the body and the sequence). Do this correctly and lag is absolutely created (it can't NOT be created). I think the bigger danger of bypassing *true* lag is pre-setting it and overbaking a down-to direct path. That creates the *look* of barrel lag but not the action.
IMO, one of the problems with the hitter in this thread is a breakdown in how she uses her hands...she tips (much too flat, losing the barrel behind her) and then her hands go completely dead and she drags the barrel around with her body. It's why as much as I think the sequence and large body movements are critical teaches, I like to start a hitter out with some basic understanding of how the hands should work to create, as WW said above and I agree, timing, adjustment and, as I say here, change of direction of the barrel.
His perfect game profile said he had surprising power and that he won a HR derby in HS. He was also 170 as Sr in HS so he may have talking about early teens when he probably weighed 140 soaking wetInteresting him saying he developed power and was hands hitter growing up.