- Apr 11, 2015
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Nope, not at all, you just don't understand it, and/or know how to teach it...that's all. It's no different than the mental cue of "Hit the top of the ball", or any other "cue" given for that matter, simple by the word's definition.If you mentally or physically ‘take your back hip to the ball’ you’re knee driven as CW said. It’s that simple. Still not sure how you can shoe horn your cue to fit the correct way to use the pelvis.
No one that I know of wants their hitter(s) to actually hit the top of the ball, but rather that it gives the player(s) the mental reminder or encouragement during the swing to "stay on top of the ball" so the their bat/barrel path does comes in behind it, and not swing underneath it as most misses tend to be.
How about "Hands/knob to the ball"? Anyone actually teach hitters to take their hands or the knob of the bat to the ball, or is that just a mental cue to get in their heads a bat/barrel path the coach is looking for?
Same thing as "Hit the ball with your rear hip". No one wants their hitter(s) to actually hit the ball with their rear hip, it's just a very useful mental cue to get kids to stop lagging or dragging their hips (rear hip specifically) in their swings. But rather do as Ted says, to have "the hips lead the way", and as Craig says, that "we want the swing to be pelvic driven"....and not shoulder/arm driven as all to the "top down" swings the kids were showing on that collage posted earlier that prompted this discussion.