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Originally posted by Vance34:
b25, so your saying the hand just doesn't hold the basketball?
I take nothing away from your heart felt and passion in your comments. But you'd serve that youngman well by telling him your way isn't the only way and support the other coaches way of things. That would be best for the youngmans mental situation.
Vance, I'd do that but I'm not going to lie to the young man. When he comes in and tells me that they are practicing hitting all balls in all locations to right field because that increases the angle of success, well, I'm just not buying into that. When he tells me that he's been told to keep his nose over his knee, well, I'm not buying that one as well. When he says that he's to hit all balls on the ground no matter what pitch location is, well, I'm thinking I don't agree with that. Vance, it's hard to post each and every word of a conversation on this board. Did I tell him that he might learn something from the other guy? Sure I did but I won't lie to him when he knows better himself as to what he should do with a ball in a given location.
This topic gets into another totally different angle and that of what an "expert" is. I really don't know. If you charge a price for your services, then perhaps your an "expert" if you can get someone to pay for those services. In our area, hitting facilities are springing up everywhere. We have 3 new ones on this side of the river in the last year. They inturn are desperate for help. I know because several have approached me. People are often enamored by the look of the facility but don't know the background or knowledge of the instructors. Take this site for instance, suppose you sought an instructor from this site. More than a few "experts" on this site are now preaching 180 degrees from what they professed, defended to the point of insult, and supported last year at this time. If fact, if you read the various posts, they now are aligned with those that they insulted last year as being ignorant. What if you were paying for those lessons a year ago and now the "expert" says, I was totally wrong. Now, I believe this. Thus it is with "experts." However, and the point of this thread, remember in this process that a kid is involved and so, if you preach it, at least do the work with that kid's future success in mind.
