Negative attack angle

[Shawn]

There’s more tilt rearward then there is tilt/posture toward the plate. With that hands height and the elbow pointing toward the backstop to much. I would play with posture in loading up and around like Cabrera.

 

[JaySpeediii]

There’s more tilt rearward then there is tilt/posture toward the plate. With that hands height and the elbow pointing toward the backstop to much. I would play with posture in loading up and around like Cabrera.

Thank you.

 

[Mike-Coach-Q]

I wasn't able to load and see the other swing and it sounds like they might be different than the 1st one. Here is a drill where Haley is stopping at contact but not using her hands to TTB. She then TTB with her bat.

 

[JaySpeediii]

I wasn't able to load and see the other swing and it sounds like they might be different than the 1st one. Here is a drill where Haley is stopping at contact but not using her hands to TTB. She then TTB with her bat.

Thank you, we’ll start working on this. The second video is in post #18. I’ll see if there is something going on with the video.

 

[Mike-Coach-Q]

It's probably the internet at work

 

[clemenslee1]

@clemenslee1, do you have or can you share any videos showing how to properly slot the elbow? When I look at her videos from behind, I see so much room between her elbow and her core. Should there be that much room?

Also for the elbows, we basically followed an Epstein drill to help keep the elbows apart. It’s very exaggerated during drills. In games, it’s not so drastic.

 

[Mike-Coach Q]

I think she close and when she cleans a couple things up is really going to see results.

 

[Mike-Coach Q]

Learning to use the back muscles and keeping the upper body rearward

 

[Mike-Coach Q]

start doing things that involve take and stop at contact.

 

[efastball]

She has several issues, but lets fix this one first.
Here she is in the stride, and she hikes up (green,bad) her front hip severely. (should be flat (yellow, good)


This leads to having a straight front leg (green, bad), which inhibits hip rotation. Front leg should be very bent at toe touch


The result is this the biceps are pushed far away (green, bad) from the torso at contact. The closer these are, the better.


The ONLY drill to fix this is to do dry strides (no bat, ball, tee). Stride forward by picking up the front knee to the belt, keeping the hip as flat/level as you can, rotate the torso (hips and shoulders in unison) as you go, and land softly on a VERY bent front knee.

Stop everything else. Work on this a few days, and see if it fixes some of the other downstream problems.