Ximena 9yo Spring 23'

[efastball]

Your back hip must start ahead (toward the pitcher) of the back foot.

Your hip is over the back foot (orange), it should be like yellow.

When you start over the back foot, you must hike the front hip (orange)(bad) in order to get moving, which straightens your front leg (red)(bad) at landing.


You MUST land on a very bent front leg.

 

[Shawn]

Yea, looks to be abaf. I would pay attention to how the whole body is used to move one forward.

Rev the engine. Not all show movement, he is playing with load, especially with the back leg/hip.

 

[Shawn]

Your back hip must start ahead (toward the pitcher) of the back foot.
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Your hip is over the back foot (orange), it should be like yellow.

When you start over the back foot, you must hike the front hip (orange)(bad) in order to get moving, which straightens your front leg (red)(bad) at landing.
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You MUST land on a very bent front leg.

In my early studies, I found that the hands are never behind the back foot. In the stance or during the load. Despite what my early exposure to Dave Hudgens said.

 

[Shawn]

Hands never behind back foot.

 

[TDS]

Rev the engine. Not all show movement, he is playing with load, especially with the back leg/hip.

Yes, we know maintaining the rear leg hip relationship is important after getting fyb. Lets not try to make it more then it is.

 

[Shawn]

Yes, we know maintaining the rear leg hip relationship is important after getting fyb. Lets not try to make it more then it is.

Uhhh?

Why would we wait until FYB? The relationship starts as the first move.

 

[Cornbread]

It looks like coaches have yelled at her to “load up, load up”. So she shifts all her weight back, pauses, and then moves forward. I like to think of the load and the stride as being the same thing. You load during the stride (keeps her back). You don’t load then stride (abaf).

The load begins with the knee lift (picking front foot up).

Try This
Setup (very important)
-toes 45 degrees, knob neutral, neck slot, all weight on rear leg. Get the setup right!
- pick front foot up and coil simultaneously
- keep loading as she begins to move forward
- Exaggerate the Slowness

 

[Shawn]

Hands never behind back foot.

Palmeiro was said to have a smooth swing.
Now we know why it was so smooth.