FiveFrameSwing
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Doug, what RHC is telling you is that you need to teach your kids how to use their hands.
Doug, what RHC is telling you is that you need to teach your kids how to use their hands.
redhotcoach,
Fantastic post!
"Now to swing and keep the same effect in the drill, but with the hands in normal grip, the hitter has to provide the same perpendicular force to the handle as the drill, but with hands normal."
This is what I constantly reiterated with them--they must get the same action in their normal grip swings. When I'm pitching to them from 20-30 feet out, I can see very easily when they aren't swinging this way with their normal grip, so I say "Reverse hand!" and have them swing a few times with that, then go back to normal grip. What's amazing to me is how much better the path of the barrel is when they switch to reverse hand and how much less they swing under the ball or chip it. I point this out to them and remind them that they must incorporate the swing they get with the reverse hand grip into their normal swing.
Again, redhotcoach, fantastic post. One of the best I've seen on hitting.
Looks like your happy with the Drill find... Not to kill your enthusiasm, but I have a question for... before this gets off topic... or over simplified to relative truisms : I'm at the feet first stage. The hands is just things we do to get the video of the feet. I have DD do lots of exaggerated things to not invest myelin in total "Swing" Yet... The hands for us is just the decision to go to the letting go of the bat in the finish...What do you think about it ??? I can't help but think in terms of Dot to Dot... Feet/Finish Swing. I have had some success. I get the feet right, and the finish, it seems to be cause the middle to be improve... ???