Huskerdu
With Purpose and Urgency
- Sep 4, 2011
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Well, it seems that our organization has adopted a Rotational Hitting approach and every single girl on the 12U and 16u teams step in the box, their toes are pointed slightly in and they shift their weight slightly back and forth waiting for the pitch...and then they hit the snot out of the ball...My approach is different, and my kids are not hitting the snot out of the ball.
I did alot of work with Colorado State University coach who teaches a load-stride-fire approach, and I have added a back knee pinch to get the hips moving. I just can't see how kids can get their timing on a pitch without loading.
I have one kid on my 12U team who has a personal coach who is teaching her rotational hitting, however, she is wrapping like crazy, pulling her left eye looking into the side of her nose.
I have been criticized because the load-stride-fire linear approach changes the eye-plane up-down-up, and if kids do it wrong, I can see it, but creating a wrapping double move situation where you take the kids hands away from the ball and then ask her to cover that distance to hit a pitch coming at her 50mph, seems to be worse.
SO, I have worked on my kids for a year with load-stride-fire and some of them have become ball strikers, but the other approach is getting more results than mine.
Can you guys help me here? I don't want to deconstruct my entire approach and confuse my kids, so how do I change, what do I add, what would you encourage me to think differently about?
Thanks!!!
I did alot of work with Colorado State University coach who teaches a load-stride-fire approach, and I have added a back knee pinch to get the hips moving. I just can't see how kids can get their timing on a pitch without loading.
I have one kid on my 12U team who has a personal coach who is teaching her rotational hitting, however, she is wrapping like crazy, pulling her left eye looking into the side of her nose.
I have been criticized because the load-stride-fire linear approach changes the eye-plane up-down-up, and if kids do it wrong, I can see it, but creating a wrapping double move situation where you take the kids hands away from the ball and then ask her to cover that distance to hit a pitch coming at her 50mph, seems to be worse.
SO, I have worked on my kids for a year with load-stride-fire and some of them have become ball strikers, but the other approach is getting more results than mine.
Can you guys help me here? I don't want to deconstruct my entire approach and confuse my kids, so how do I change, what do I add, what would you encourage me to think differently about?
Thanks!!!