Fastpitch hitters

[clemenslee1]

The body is hanging, it’s really simple.

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How would you explain or relay this "Hanging" to a player?

 

[Shawn]

By coiling around the rear leg and with the hips out in front of the back foot. Hanging out in front of the back foot. Creating leverage against the back side.



I also like how the back foot/knee are turned inward a little in the stance.

 

[clemenslee1]

By coiling around the rear leg and with the hips out in front of the back foot. Hanging out in front of the back foot. Creating leverage against the back side.

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I also like how the back foot/knee are turned inward a little in the stance.

So, FBC of the middle

 

[Shawn]

So, FBC of the middle

The only problem with FBC, is there is coil AND stretching.

 

[efastball]

By coiling around the rear leg

The problem with this is you can do it wrong or right. Can go back over the back foot, or can gate swing it.

If you coil around the spine it's hard to do it wrong

 

[Shawn]

Efast

No the spine isn’t the axis. The axis is the back hip and hands have their axis. You coil under the head, but that doesn’t mean the spine is the axis.

 

[Shawn]

 

[TDS]

Looks like this could be a good drill (haven't tried it yet) to feel the middle getting stretched while getting leveraged fyb.

 

[Work=wins]

Don’t think of it as ‘hanging’. Think of counter rotation to its EROM TO rotation to its EROM. With the legs stabilizing. Hips to torso to shoulders closed to open. They counter in order. They open in order. If that is right, the thought is ‘hands’. Rotation just happens. Force-filled rotation is after the hands have launched imo.

 

[Shawn]