What does the corner mean to you

[tjintx]

As your are admiring corners, here is one from today

Nice GIF, Before He swings there is a guy in the stands whose face is hidden by His hands(hat,sunglasses). Use this a reference...
The rear knee starts pulling the rear hip rear hip, as that happens look at His hands. They seem to float for a split second. That's the hands setting up a barrel move behind the corner. Now look at the barrel during this same time frame. It swirls around above His head from front to back. So, even though the hands seemed to be floating they were actually working the barrel.
Now comes the best part, Look at the path the barrel takes behind Him. Remember the guy in the stands where His hands started? Watch the barrel cut that guy in half. See the speed of the barrel way back there? Now look again at his hips and feel how they are in front of this action pulling the hands through.... Do you see it? Can you feel it? That's the corner. IMO

 

[Eric F]

Yes. Except for the "uncoil the hip" stuff. The hip doesn't uncoil, the swing...handset...barrel uncoils.

Think of the corner and coil as similar. Picture a coil spring attached from the ball of the rear femur on the bottom of the coil, and the backside of the rear shoulder or hands on top of the coil spring. So a lower half head start turn tightens the coil spring from the bottom...the bottom of the spring is turning and the top of the spring is resisting from turning. It is creating a corner. Now we want the bat to get whipped around the corner, so we would not "uncoil" the bottom of the spring...we would release the resistance of the top of the spring....so the uncoil is the top...or the bat getting whipped around the corner.

This is what I'm focusing on with the kids on my DD's 10U rec team - fire the hips, resist with the shoulders, create whip. For a few, the lightbulb got turned on very quickly, and the quickness of their barrel launch increased dramatically. In our last game, one of these girls hit her first-ever legitimate double. Even with the kids who are dragging the bat (many of them), creating the upper-body/lower-body resistance and spring-release has made a big difference in bat speed.

 

[rdbass]

Yes. Except for the "uncoil the hip" stuff. The hip doesn't uncoil, the swing...handset...barrel uncoils.

Think of the corner and coil as similar. Picture a coil spring attached from the ball of the rear femur on the bottom of the coil, and the backside of the rear shoulder or hands on top of the coil spring. So a lower half head start turn tightens the coil spring from the bottom...the bottom of the spring is turning and the top of the spring is resisting from turning. It is creating a corner. Now we want the bat to get whipped around the corner, so we would not "uncoil" the bottom of the spring...we would release the resistance of the top of the spring....so the uncoil is the top...or the bat getting whipped around the corner.

 

[FiveFrameSwing]

Notice the rear leg turning action … while the rear lower back resists and the torso becomes twisted … the barrel is turned against a resisting backside and in a direction that offers further resistance.

You want to get that backside action leading your swing.

 

[rdbass]

Might as well include these:

 

[stiksdad]

Nice GIF, Before He swings there is a guy in the stands whose face is hidden by His hands(hat,sunglasses). Use this a reference...
The rear knee starts pulling the rear hip rear hip, as that happens look at His hands. They seem to float for a split second. That's the hands setting up a barrel move behind the corner. Now look at the barrel during this same time frame. It swirls around above His head from front to back. So, even though the hands seemed to be floating they were actually working the barrel.
Now comes the best part, Look at the path the barrel takes behind Him. Remember the guy in the stands where His hands started? Watch the barrel cut that guy in half. See the speed of the barrel way back there? Now look again at his hips and feel how they are in front of this action pulling the hands through.... Do you see it? Can you feel it? That's the corner. IMO

Agreed and very good analysis of the swing.

 

[Spartans21]

Why the term corner? Would that word be interchangeable with something like "creating max torque"? Or "max stretch"?

 

[Eric F]

Why the term corner? Would that word be interchangeable with something like "creating max torque"? Or "max stretch"?

I like the term "corner" works because it reflects the proper action of turning the barrel behind your shoulder and out of your range of vision. If you can see the barrel turn, you're pushing.

 

[Spartans21]

I like the term "corner" works because it reflects the proper action of turning the barrel behind your shoulder and out of your range of vision. If you can see the barrel turn, you're pushing.

So your shoulder is the "corner", and if done properly the bat comes around the corner. Correct?

 

[Eric F]

So your shoulder is the "corner", and if done properly the bat comes around the corner. Correct?

In simple terms, yes.