The Load

[Work=wins]

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Again don’t understand how you can’t see that the back leg is starting at the same time as the hands TTB where you abduct the back arm. The hips are still coiled, but the back leg is starting at the same time. The back leg starts on every pitch, unless it’s an obvious ball. Otherwise you’re not ready to swing.

The back leg reacts to the hands. Most pros try to maintain the back leg. They don’t try to activate it. Usually only when it’s a lower pitch.

 

[Fury_Mike]

I think what he is saying is your opinion sucks. lol

Seriously though another thing I saw in hitters from actually studying hitters for myself and swinging 25 years ago. I came to the conclusion that swinging from the ground up was too slow and disconnected. I came to the conclusion that the hands fired first and now I know how.

When you say the hands fire first, is that the same thing as "barrel tipping"?

 

[Shawn]

When you say the hands fire first, is that the same thing as "barrel tipping"?

I don’t think it’s the same. The hands are primed ready, yes. There was an old study that talked about the over lap.

 

[Rolling Hard]

here you go W=W. skip to the 1:50 mark

 

[Work=wins]

here you go W=W. skip to the 1:50 mark

Pretty good video. The main reason I see the hands leading things and being active within a good swing is mainly based on creating a turn earlier w good plane, if you don’t use the hands early you get drag or postural issues due to using the core or whatever to early. The core or hips or shoulders or legs shouldn’t initiate a swing. They are passive aggressive so to speak. They get activated they don’t initiate things.

What Malaska is getting at in his demo is getting the COM behind the hands so he can extend all parts of his body. Seen the tiger video where he wants his hands to beat his hips? Same concept. Think about how much all the body parts need to turn to get to EROM relative to each other from flexion to extension and it’s pretty easy to understand why we need the longer flexed parts to start earlier. Extension is the main power producer. Rotation is a speedy positionER.

 

[Work=wins]

Could you turn and let the hands hold on? Sure. Can you stay back and turn the barrel deep on a back leg? Sure. Could you open bottom up? Sure. But it just doesn’t match what the best do.

 

[Shawn]

Here, you load and stretch. The load has a forward component. You stretch against the two pivot points. So, the forward is under control because there is a pulling back against the forward.

Pretty good timing.

 

[Shawn]

The other way.

 

[Shawn]

Ready to swing on every pitch.

 

[Cornbread]

Ready to swing on every pitch.

IMO this is step 1 to becoming and elite hitter. The brain is good! It will prepare the body to swing if the hitter is fully committed to swinging at every pitch. If there is any indecision the load will be compromised.