It is easy to identify what is wrong with your swing. Almost anyone can look at a video of you side by side with a video of a big league hitter and point out differences. The easy part is knowing what changes to make.
The hard part is actually making the changes, and mimicking what you see in a high level swing. If this part was easy to do, everyone would be a high level hitter.
My question is: how you actually go about changing your ingrained swing habits? Do you use video feedback of every swing? Do you over-emphasize for a few swings then just "swing normal" without thinking about the adjustment? How do you keep from reverting to your old swing?
I ask this because I am in the middle of making a major change in my bat path. It's a change in how I even think about how my upper body works in the swing. I know exactly what I need to look like, but I am very inconsistent in getting the movement down.
The method I'm using right now is working off a tee very deliberately, thinking about my adjustment with every swing. I'll repeat this as long as it takes until I feel comfortable and consistently backspin around 15 balls in a row up the middle. Not every swing in this stage is 100% effort. After that, I move into the tunnel and take swings off of the iron mike, still trying to swing with the adjustment and not reverting back. I'll start swinging a little harder in the tunnel, eventually cranking it up to about full effort.
I have good days and bad days, but i hope that every day I learn a new "feel" for my swing that I can take into the next day and build on. If I had access to a video I would use that, but right now that's not an option.
Any advice, opinions, questions, comments are welcome from all members of this board.
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