What does he mean?
What does he mean?
What does he mean?
Imbedded in your quote...
If it takes someone who is infatuated with hitting as you and I and a lot of the people on this board to interpret this into something else then it is basically useless. On top of that it really takes you (and very few others) as most people on this board are complete students of swing mechanics and still don't "really understand" what he actually means. Great, that means ARods video is good for about .00001 percent of the population. That is why it is a bad teach.
Buffer was just another word for ‘blocks’ impedes swing momentum.
When the ‘running start’ per your words is only activated through the front oblique which gives the front leg it’s ability to leverage the frontside. Other wise it’s active. Correct? So if it activates through the front leg via ground force. Why the need to term it 1-legged? It clearly needs 2 legs.
If what you mean by 1-legged is keeping it loaded until launch. Ok. We were clearly not speaking of the same thing.
When I comment on 1-legged it’s from TMs AJ or SBs examples(his students) or J Soriano’s. I don’t see these absolute core actions you and I are in agreement about(which needs 2 legs). But I don’t think you are all in with TMs stuff so I don’t see the need to let me know what I’m misinterpreting. Get what I mean? His pattern is not your pattern right? His is uphill with a tilt to stay back even more so he can leverage the barrel into its swing path , so he could be ‘behind the ball’. Clearly the front leg is just used to not fall down. Nothing more.
I will use this terminology now just for you: I will refer to it as rear legged hitting. Not 1 legged hitting Fair? After all TM likes the back hip pivot point and you like the front oblique per running start. Sound good?
I was being sarcastic. Thought you would interpret that... the being behind the ball cue is just his way of staying leveraged to get the proper angle into the ball.nothing to do with his swing path. He’s swinging down. FYB.
Like Edgar: notice how his bathead stays up the whole time.
Here’s a few more: staying behind the ball
Both pros have been quoted as saying they swing down. Just like in a game. I said it in the beginning of this thread ‘add tilt’ walaa elite swing path. Of course how you get to ‘tilted’ matters.
It is not uncommon in sports for great players to describe their mechanics in ways that do not match what high speed video shows to be true. My introduction to this was with the great Jack Nicklaus, who wrote an instructional book and within a year was admitting that he was wrong. He said that his play deteriorated when he tried to swing the way he thought he swung. He eventually went back to his original teacher and got straightened out.
Somebody brought up Jenny finch as a case in point. My daughter took pitching lessons from former All-American, Olympian, and NPF player Danielle Henderson. She taught wrist snap-HE. She allowed me to take video of one of her practice sessions as she prepared for the NPF season. She did not pitch what she taught. When I showed her the high-speed video that I had taken and asked her about it she basically said that the video lied and that she did actually pitched the way she taught. She said "It's in there you just can't see it".
Andre Agassi said that on his forehand he rolled his wrist into contact, video shows that he rolls his wrist after contact.
Great players may make good coaches but they rarely make good instructors, there is a big difference between the two.
The Hanson Rule rules, if you can't see it, it's not in there, no matter what some All Star says.