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Jan 6, 2009
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The hands and belly button going back while the hips start to go forward is when disassociation happens early. The hips breaking away from an active stride gives you stretch and core contraction capabilities when you want. There are many ways to get forward yet. I have explained but one. I know of two or three. The hinge and the back knee are the others I know of. It’s style imo. But you gotta get FYB if you’re gonna have a chance to adjust and hit multiple pitches/speeds.

Look at the cadence of his strides. The length might be the same or not. But the timing(s) are different. The stride initiates launch.


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Watch the stride, he lifts the front knee. The back leg is straighter, regardless he sets the load. The back leg is in control, it sets the front foot down.
 
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Oct 13, 2014
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Watch the stride, he lifts the front knee. The back leg is straighter, regardless he sets the load. The back leg is in control, it sets the front foot down.

Let’s just not see the knee flexed then straighten? Does the back leg do that as well? Or does the front foot time the ball?

Notice that scap load react during the stride legs departure? Where’s the early tilt and early scap action? Nobody knows..
 
Jan 6, 2009
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Let’s just not see the knee flexed then straighten? Does the back leg do that as well? Or does the front foot time the ball?

Notice that scap load react during the stride legs departure? Where’s the early tilt and early scap action? Nobody knows..

Ball very close. What’s in control?

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Jan 6, 2009
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I see the front foot/leg hit a wall, hovers for a second and plants. I see a back knee/leg start flexed extends and then flex, setting the foot down.
 
Oct 13, 2014
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I see the front foot/leg hit a wall, hovers for a second and plants. I see a back knee/leg start flexed extends and then flex, setting the foot down.

Do you see the belt buckle turn back slightly first? Then the body moves forward? That’s coil. But not until the hips advance against it.

In regards to stride.. What you’re seeing is release of the backside. That’s committal by the front side to swing. Notice the front foot descend and the scap retract? While the hips drop. All simultaneously!! Just a coincidence? Nope. The back leg holds onto the weight until committal. It’s what people call staying ‘back’.

What some mistake for hip coil is core coil. Again watch the middle move things. The hips coil back or react but once they go forward they pull tight in the opposite direction to give a look of ‘turning’ that is truly sequential load. No active turn. This let’s the core slingshot on top of the lower half pulling the pelvis upwards. And since the glutes are connected to the core and contract at the same time, they help push the hips into extension. Yes the hips are extending but the muscles that surround the pelvis do all the heavy lifting.
 
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Oct 13, 2014
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@Shawn I don’t get when you say this is what I see? How could you know what you see when you can’t duplicate it? It’s one thing to guess. It’s a whole other thing to produce the movements and know. You had a hard time staying in posture when swinging but you know what controls what and how to produce it? Maybe you have a student that duplicates Jr. or Nomar? If not, how the hell would you know anything about anything?
 

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