Not to take anything away from her and her amazing run as a player and a coach, but I really hate the downward swing path. It just makes so much more sense to me to get on plane with the ball path and hit through the center of the ball. That's my goal anyway...
I'm with you! I hate it when someone else tries to step in and change one of my players to a straight-from-shoulder-to-ball bat path when I've worked so hard to get them to turn the barrel to come in from behind the ball on the bat path of the pitch.
The approach I've instilled in my players makes no sense to them. Their approach makes no sense to me. Thus, it seems to end up a competition of batting mechanics philosophy, which usually ends up screwing up the player.