Ok, daughter is left handed, but she tends to naturally want to swing righty. So, been having her switch hit for her first year of tee ball. Which side looks smoothest? Keep switch hitting or let her focus on her more natural (to her) right handed? She's been working on firm front side and strong rotation of her hips and back leg. Along with weight transfer to limit on the back foot. Still working on TTB and her core sequence.
You can see in the third photo that when she demonstrates to another player about her hand placement and working on getting a good stretch at toe touch while keeping her scap back and loaded while keeping her hands in front of her elbows to limit bat drag, that she goes with the righty swing naturally.
Ok, so if you're down here still reading...hopefully you caught on that I'm just BS-ing and joking with ya with a bunch of hitting "lingo" that we hear all the time on message boards and youtube and clinics.
Truth = yes, this is my youngest (Alexis) back when she was 5 playing 6u tee ball for first time. She's 12 now. And yes, she is a lefty and I did start her switch hitting, and we did it for first 3 seasons and into 8u. But, she was much more successful as a righty and wanted to only do that, so I stopped having her switch hit. Sometimes, I look back and wonder....what if I had kept her going or maybe focused only on lefty. But, she's not exactly speedy, so I figure if she's more comfortable righty with much more coordination righty then probably for the best.
You can see in the third photo that when she demonstrates to another player about her hand placement and working on getting a good stretch at toe touch while keeping her scap back and loaded while keeping her hands in front of her elbows to limit bat drag, that she goes with the righty swing naturally.
Ok, so if you're down here still reading...hopefully you caught on that I'm just BS-ing and joking with ya with a bunch of hitting "lingo" that we hear all the time on message boards and youtube and clinics.Truth = yes, this is my youngest (Alexis) back when she was 5 playing 6u tee ball for first time. She's 12 now. And yes, she is a lefty and I did start her switch hitting, and we did it for first 3 seasons and into 8u. But, she was much more successful as a righty and wanted to only do that, so I stopped having her switch hit. Sometimes, I look back and wonder....what if I had kept her going or maybe focused only on lefty. But, she's not exactly speedy, so I figure if she's more comfortable righty with much more coordination righty then probably for the best.
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