FiveFrameSwing
Banned
Compare how she's getting the bat started in these swings to what she's doing now. In these clips she gets her barrel moving without dropping her hands. Some of us refer to this as "turning the barrel with the hands". We may also say that she has created a hand pivot point because she is moving the barrel without dropping her hands or moving them forward towards the pitcher. She is getting a head start with the barrel. Notice how she times the flattening of the barrel move with her stride. She is reading the pitch while her barrel is flattening behind her. When she makes the decision to swing, her barrel is already in motion and flattening into the swing plane. Where did this move go? What drills did she do to lose this move?
Now she is dropping her hands down towards her side and then swinging. It's what I refer to as slot-then-swing. She can really hit the ball hard doing what she's doing now, but it's not very efficient and it's really hard to sqaure the ball up consistently.
I like her old swing. A little bit better sync, and a little bit less flattening, and her hips would have been leading naturally. When you get the sequence correct, and get the bat started correctly, the hips are a no teach, IMO. I felt like she was close before, but my comments got shot down. Oh well.
Even here her hands activate late and not until after she flattens the barrel. She's making it tough on herself by swinging with "level shoulders" ... as opposed to having the hips lead the way via 'lateral tilt' and establishing connection.