FiveFrameSwing
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Keep in mind that she is working on a slow-pitch swing.
HELP! please evaluate my daughters swing
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Keep in mind that she is working on a slow-pitch swing.
FiveFrameSwing
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- Feb 22, 2016
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Slow pitch for now. Once the season is over in about a month she will switch to fast pitch to get ready for fall ball. She plays fast pitch in the fall, then basketball, then slow pitch and repeat.
- Feb 22, 2016
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The back shoulder is to low at the launch position. You want an attack posture and shoulder angle downwards like Lindor is showing. The back shoulder only lowers as the swing starts and because of posture. The lead shoulder raises after the start of the swing (launch position and after).
I don't think her lowerbody is far off.
The front shoulder should come down and in compressing the torso (shorten) from the shoulder to back hip and as the torso from front hip to back shoulder lengthens (back shoulder up and stretched). That action should help taken the slack out of the system. You stretch or load the coil, hide the hands as part of bringing the front down and in.
I'll be back, but I suggest you ask allot of question. I still ask questions and read books on hitting, just finished Positional Hitter and just starting Hitting with Torque.
I don't think her lowerbody is far off.
The front shoulder should come down and in compressing the torso (shorten) from the shoulder to back hip and as the torso from front hip to back shoulder lengthens (back shoulder up and stretched). That action should help taken the slack out of the system. You stretch or load the coil, hide the hands as part of bringing the front down and in.
I'll be back, but I suggest you ask allot of question. I still ask questions and read books on hitting, just finished Positional Hitter and just starting Hitting with Torque.
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Posture is important. The back shoulder is just following the posture of the torso. You don't lower the back shoulder and then swing, the back shoulder lowers or follows the posture. It's not by accident that the swing plane and torso posture match, some people try to say that posture isn't a part of the swing plane.
FiveFrameSwing
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Just to clarify ... is your advice here for slow-pitch softball? Please post video evidence supporting your advice. Do the best slow-pitch hitters do as you recommend here?
No I don't care if it's fastpitch or slow pitch. A good swing is a good swing. Is the guy you posted dropping the back shoulder before the launch position?
FiveFrameSwing
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I see, so you don't have verification that the best slow-pitch hitters swing the way you are recommending ... yet you are adamant that your advice is correct, despite lacking verification ... that makes you a dangerous person to take advice from IMO. Please consider spending some time reviewing how the best slow-pitch hitters swing a bat.
Get out of here, look at the video you posted and get off your high horse. Get serious man. I don't play games like you, so don't even bother, I don't want to hear it.
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