DING DING DING.... you just encapsulated the problem with 99% of amateur hitting!
"I believe if a hitter waits until ball is released to load/coil or load and coil they will be rushed or feel rushed."
The amateur hitter doesn't know how to swing in a sequence of coiling-loading-launching...
IMO apply it prior to coiling. That being said there is a range of time from "preset at the very beginning", to "applied during gather" the spans the prior to coiling.
a simple experiment I have played with is with good ol' socks on a smooth floor. RH batter... do no rear leg inward pressure...
This is a good enough intro to coiling and a$$/bb if you care... at it's simplest... a$$/bb is just coiling with an added emphasis on core stability.
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See if this does anything for you... who doesn't like a little experiment!
Stand on your rear leg facing a wall. ( you can...
Not locked, I post them as Gfycats to save bandwidth for visitors. You should still be able to get a GIF from the gfycat. You may have to go to the gfycat site:
https://gfycat.com/@noontimebaseball
Cheers,
NoonTime
Granderson Pattern and Sequence. Much like the others. Late coiling-load-launching sequence timing ball in flight from basically pitcher release with a more "elaborate pattern" preceding that. :)
the core involvement in the coiling action is what primes the pump for the release and core...
As long as you have some way to toggle through your own video frame by frame you can easily compare to GIFs. Save the GIF local and open with free QuickTime 7. You can use the arrow keys to toggle back and forth frame by frame. Just have them open side by side and toggle away.
Nice work Howe! You missed Rich's word smithing to incorporate directing before launch.
Launch Movement. It happens before launch per his definition. He also wanted to distinguish between general directing that is encompassed in that launch movement from the directing that comes after...
Actually I bumped for Rich since it appears he forgot that he already mapped it all out for us and that he said himself that LAUNCH-MOVEMENT happens before launch and that there is directing happening during LAUNCH-MOVEMENT.
Thanks again Rich for helping solidify the concept of Direct then...
How? Like an ab crunch? What do I move where to create a pre-swing pump using the middle?
The pump creates both the tip and the untip? What is the pump in body part terms and how do you perform it? Is it a 2 step action like a bike pump where you do one thing (pull the handle out) and then...
The question isn't what you would do to get yourself in the pattern. You already have an idea what all those words means and what action you think you have to do to put those words into movement.
The question is what do you tell a student to get them to do it? What words do you use? What...
if that works for you great... personally I think its all the same, just different ways of communicating to the player to achieve an end movement pattern.
So... what would you communicate to the hitter here as instruction to "put the legs in neutral (not active) and allow the responsibility of...
Not sure if this has already been discussed... I've skipped most of the posts... I like pictures :) ... my .02....
You could take either one of the recent GIFs...
She get's to the "stork" / "tewks Go A" position and then what? That is gather.
She doesn't know how to break the seal on...
It's jryan's photobucket account... of that we can be pretty sure. Who made the clip is still a total unknown. Maybe I made the clip and jryan copied it to his photobucket? Maybe jryan figured out how to make GIFs and posted it to his account? Maybe Rich made the clip for jryan as part of...