- Oct 27, 2009
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I have noticed at my DD's practices when the girls work on their dry swings nearly all of them repeatedly swing in the same path or slot on every swing, and some take that same swing into the cage when working on hitting. While feeding the machine I can see that some have the exact swing even though location changes.
I believe that we should teach a process in the dry swing practice that we have them work the strike zone much like a pitcher would where you have them swing at inside low, inside high, outside high, outside low, then one right down the middle. In doing so the girls need to implement visualization skills and the hitting approach that the each location requires to hit that particular pitch. Each location should have the respective number that your team designates for that location and work through the progression, once they have mastered the progression then when doing dry swings call out random locations in a rapid fire dry swing session to help groove the various locations, all the while the girls should implement the visualization and location techniques. I believe each girl should practice this at home when doing dry swings and I believe in the on deck area they should work on this as opposed to what I see most girls do and groove the same slot or path over and over again.
Is this too advanced for 13yo? I have tried to implement this with the team I assist with and was told it may be too much for the girls to grasp at this point. That they are working on the correct swing, I believe it should be taught from the beginning.
What are your thoughts to this concept?
I believe that we should teach a process in the dry swing practice that we have them work the strike zone much like a pitcher would where you have them swing at inside low, inside high, outside high, outside low, then one right down the middle. In doing so the girls need to implement visualization skills and the hitting approach that the each location requires to hit that particular pitch. Each location should have the respective number that your team designates for that location and work through the progression, once they have mastered the progression then when doing dry swings call out random locations in a rapid fire dry swing session to help groove the various locations, all the while the girls should implement the visualization and location techniques. I believe each girl should practice this at home when doing dry swings and I believe in the on deck area they should work on this as opposed to what I see most girls do and groove the same slot or path over and over again.
Is this too advanced for 13yo? I have tried to implement this with the team I assist with and was told it may be too much for the girls to grasp at this point. That they are working on the correct swing, I believe it should be taught from the beginning.
What are your thoughts to this concept?