back foot rollover/collapse

His weight is probably shifting to his heals, try getting him more on the balls of his feet with his rear foot slightly turned in. A concept/visual that a coach gave my son that helped him was "get your rear foot shoelaces pointing to the ground" Kids will tend to scrunch over so you may have to tell him to "stay tall" at the same time.

Are you talking about him rolling over to the inside or outside of his ankle?

Thanks BOF, we'll take a look there.

IEBSBL,
outside. The hips rotate and the back foot pivots on to the toes/ball of foot. After contact that back foot continues to rotate and land on the outside of the foot.
I hope that clarifies.

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Originally posted by BOF:
His weight is probably shifting to his heals, try getting him more on the balls of his feet with his rear foot slightly turned in. A concept/visual that a coach gave my son that helped him was "get your rear foot shoelaces pointing to the ground" Kids will tend to scrunch over so you may have to tell him to "stay tall" at the same time.

Follow BOF's lead, he's got it right.

Ok...I had the same problem with one of my players and Turtle Thomas, head coach at FIU, addressed this very thing at a conference I attended. Take 3 car tires and stack them, 2 if the kid is smaller. Have him place his back foot in the tire when he hits on the tees and soft toss making sure his toe is flush with the inside of the tire. When he rotates his foot his ankle will come in contact and will keep him from over rotating. My player sad it was completely uncomfortable at first but it did do the trick.

IEBSBL: Coach do you have three tires that I can borrow.....

Nice idea however.

lol....I actually have about 2 dozen. I went to a local tire shop and asked if I could have some that they were going to throw away. They said I could have as many as I wanted. Turtle actually has a couple more drills with tires if you are interested. Ironically right before Turtle spoke at the conference Kevin Long, Yankee's hitting coach, spoke and I asked him how to solve that problem and in his words, "I have no answer for that." He said that he has never seen that and only has players that under rotate.

IEBSBL
OK, I'm reluctant to do this but I'm not sure I fully get the picture of the drill you're describing. I can probably get some tires but don't have any "lying around" so I'm going to attach a link to see if we're on the same page with the mechanic issue before I do.
Please take a look between the 1:00 and the 1:40 mark - some of the swings illustrate what I'm trying to describe. Yeah, this one's mine - thus reluctant to throw it out there.
If this is what you are thinking it was, please elaborate a bit on the drill. (Toe is flush with inside of the tire??)
Thanks for the help.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp4inEpnLb4

Yes that is exactly what I am talking about. The kid I coach was actually more severe about it. Have your son place his back foot in the tire making sure the toes are touching the inside of the tire. When your son pivots to hit the side of his foot and leg will come into contact with the tire and keep him from over rotating.

OK, thanks, I'll try that out. Is there anything the tires will do that a heavy box wouldn't?

Couldn't answer that question. I saw Turtle Thomas speak and he gave us a series of drills involving tires and this was one of the drills.