Critique / Help Series of Swings - Part 2

[knightsb]

Knightsb, how did you fix the front arm barring?

DD is a visual learner. I gave her two queues with supporting visual aids:

1. The back elbow is connected to the barrel of the bat. Visual: when her back elbow moves down, so does the tip of the barrel.

Watch the back arm and barrel - they move at the same time as if their is a steel rod connecting his elbow to the barrel tip

2. "Turn the Triangle" and try and maintain the triangle. Visual: I used this gif provided by MTS.

 

[Stever]

The swing is looking much better, I would be very happy with the progress. Two little things will help IMO. She is still catching the ball to far out front, and the right arm never finishes, she never reaches extension with the right arm.

Keep up the good work, I see a lot of good things happening!!

 

[knightsb]

VLOG from 03/13/2013:




1. We are working on staying more connected through the swing.
2. We are working on loading into the stride vs load then stride then swing.
3. DD and I have watched a bunch of swings, and are using Braun as a baseline for comparison.

Drills we are doing:

1. Step behind walk throughs.
2. Rear leg only.
3. SnF
4. Deep tee.

 

[redhotcoach]

Knight, have you talked to her about scap circling yet?

I know it's not listed in what she is working on above, but if I hadn't seen her before, the first thing I thought from this video was "back/scap" and resistance lacking a bit.

 

[knightsb]

Knight, have you talked to her about scap circling yet?

I know it's not listed in what she is working on above, but if I hadn't seen her before, the first thing I thought from this video was "back/scap" and resistance lacking a bit.

That's a good question. I misunderstood the concept of Scap Circling and set us back a week.... I was telling Olivia to literally circle her scap which resulted in her circling her rear shoulder. I touched base with TM and he provided some great feedback on the relationship of the Scap Clamp (SC) and rotating over the back hip. I know we have some room for improvement in SC and swinging with a fused torso. That's going to be the main focus over the next few weeks.

Thanks for the comments and feedback.

 

[redhotcoach]

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RHC, I'm scared was just going to PM Knight. I will post it here instead.

Are you saying you see an elbow pivot point instead of a hand pivot point.

Sorry...verizon still hasn't boosted my power, so it is taking several minutes to load gifs on my iphone.

Knight, I do like everything you listed you guys were working on...it is so much for them! At least the season will be full on soon and they can just work on hitting the ball.

 

[knightsb]

Knight, I do like everything you listed you guys were working on...it is so much for them! At least the season will be full on soon and they can just work on hitting the ball.

You got that right! The part I hate is misinterpreting something and having that set us back. I will tell you that as "feelings" go, she says she has a better feeling for the swing now than just a couple months ago. We are supposed to play a week from Saturday so I need to tone back my tinkering a bit ;-)

 

[MandM]

Just when I thought it was safe to read the technical hitting posts...

Can someone explain how I can get DD to feel the difference between having a hand vs. an elbow pivot point?

 

[wichita]

Ok so i hear you guys talk about HI on here a lot and im kinda the new kid on the block so what website is this you speak of ? Do I have to join some secret society to get this info....come on share the good stuff .... BTW knight, Olivia's swing is looking very much improved I'm just getting ready to start working with my older one with SnF ....kinda funny this fall we were at a camp for a certain D1 program and they have shown interest in my DD before and they kinda pulled her away from the other girls and was having her work on hitting with a hip bump and after the camp was over I asked my DD what the coach was having her do and she told me "some kind of hip bump thing before i swing I'm not really sure" and to think it was this very SnF style hitting that I see on here. Ill probably have to do it myself because I don't know of anyone that teaches this style around my parts.

 

[wichita]

Hey Knightsb please clear your PM's