redhotcoach
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- May 8, 2009
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There is an H.I. gif with a coil spring cropped over a gif of Pujols hitting....
Think of an imaginary coil spring. The bottom of the spring is attached to the top of your femur bone. The top of spring is hooked to the bat/hands/shoulder area.
The act of "hip coil" is coiling around the femur, not above the hip, but around the rear leg. That tightens the bottom of the coil spring. You want the hands/bat launched because of the release of the top of the coil spring. So anything turned forward above the bottom of the spring (the rear femur) is uncoiling the tension in the spring. You want the uncoiling of the spring to be the release at the very top...the bat being launched. So everything above the bottom of the spring must continually resist the rear leg turning...or you are loosening tension in the spring somewhere other then the bat launch.
Yes the whole spring will turn forward...the hip will turn...the rear leg turns the whole assembly...BUT the hips (via the back muscles), being above the rear leg (bottom of the spring), must continually resist that turn to tighten, or keep tight the coil to be released in the swing.
The UNCOIL is the swing of the barrel.
Think of an imaginary coil spring. The bottom of the spring is attached to the top of your femur bone. The top of spring is hooked to the bat/hands/shoulder area.
The act of "hip coil" is coiling around the femur, not above the hip, but around the rear leg. That tightens the bottom of the coil spring. You want the hands/bat launched because of the release of the top of the coil spring. So anything turned forward above the bottom of the spring (the rear femur) is uncoiling the tension in the spring. You want the uncoiling of the spring to be the release at the very top...the bat being launched. So everything above the bottom of the spring must continually resist the rear leg turning...or you are loosening tension in the spring somewhere other then the bat launch.
Yes the whole spring will turn forward...the hip will turn...the rear leg turns the whole assembly...BUT the hips (via the back muscles), being above the rear leg (bottom of the spring), must continually resist that turn to tighten, or keep tight the coil to be released in the swing.
The UNCOIL is the swing of the barrel.