Front toss - keeping weight back drills
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I also like hitting out of a 90 and 45
Interesting on the 90. Didn't know the body could get that much range of motion and still produce a swing like that.
Coiling in the hip socket is different than hip shoulder separation and better with all aspects of hitting.
A few things to watch for when hitting out of 90s and 45s
- coil (back butt check to pitcher) make sure she feels like her rear leg is loaded
- stretch the upper, don’t counter rotate shoulders, don’t get hands stuck behind her, stretch like a Ferris wheel, front should down, probably need to use the neck slot
- first few I would give her the “go” command, tell her to burst
- try to work on tilting and not rotating shoulders (takes time), launch backwards is a good feel for tilt
- make sure 99% of the weight is on her rear leg, should be the same when she finishes swing, don’t let her shift weight to other leg (she’s going to on the first few if that’s her current pattern)
- keep her head behind the ball, if she rotates shoulders the head will come up and left quickly, she needs to finish with her head behind the ball
- focus on getting palm up/palm down as quickly as possible, don’t want to push the hands/knob forward
- once you get to front toss it will go hay wire, she will want to launch forward and hit it out front, of she does drill correctly she will launch much quicker, will need to learn to let the ball travel, think hit it off the rear leg
- coil (back butt check to pitcher) make sure she feels like her rear leg is loaded
- stretch the upper, don’t counter rotate shoulders, don’t get hands stuck behind her, stretch like a Ferris wheel, front should down, probably need to use the neck slot
- first few I would give her the “go” command, tell her to burst
- try to work on tilting and not rotating shoulders (takes time), launch backwards is a good feel for tilt
- make sure 99% of the weight is on her rear leg, should be the same when she finishes swing, don’t let her shift weight to other leg (she’s going to on the first few if that’s her current pattern)
- keep her head behind the ball, if she rotates shoulders the head will come up and left quickly, she needs to finish with her head behind the ball
- focus on getting palm up/palm down as quickly as possible, don’t want to push the hands/knob forward
- once you get to front toss it will go hay wire, she will want to launch forward and hit it out front, of she does drill correctly she will launch much quicker, will need to learn to let the ball travel, think hit it off the rear leg
We’ve done front toss from an open stance and coil in.
Try this concept.
Aaron judge uses it. Or did when he won MVP last year. The timing involved takes care of things imo.
Aaron judge uses it. Or did when he won MVP last year. The timing involved takes care of things imo.
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Open stance could help with lunging.
I’m a big fan of hitting out of a 45. Here’s Haley‘s warm up routine when hitting off the pitching machine. This is how she gets her timing. This is after tee work and dry swings.
