One last thing...The hitter is on his back toe at contact because of the extreme amount of tilt of his shoulders. This is not because of weight transfer in the swing. MLB hitters have tilt, in order to level out the swing plane, but this amount to me is rediculous. The pitching mound would have to be 70 foot high for the bat path to match the downward path of the baseball. Once again, your thoughts?
The above response is in addition to the last comment I made on page 1.
quote:Originally posted by Understand Baseball:
Guys, I really enjoyed reading your examples. What I saw with Posada was the backside stoping rotation before the momentum slammed into the stiff front side. I still see the swing rotating around the front hip. It may start at the backhip, but rotation (with good weight transfer) occurs around the front hip. We may be both describing the same thing, just in different ways.
This is a clip that I think of as rotation occuring around the back hip. I see no weight transfer is occuring, just spinning. To me this is an example of a bad swing. What are your thoughts? The clip is below (the swing starts at 1:47 and ends at 2:00)
Swing
Yep! That's a bad swing!
quote:Originally posted by Understand Baseball:
One last thing...The hitter is on his back toe at contact because of the extreme amount of tilt of his shoulders. This is not because of weight transfer in the swing. MLB hitters have tilt, in order to level out the swing plane, but this amount to me is rediculous. The pitching mound would have to be 70 foot high for the bat path to match the downward path of the baseball. Once again, your thoughts?
Yep! I agree!
quote:We may be both describing the same thing, just in different ways.
Nope!
quote:Originally posted by Understand Baseball:
I still see the swing rotating around the front hip. It may start at the backhip, but rotation (with good weight transfer) occurs around the front hip....
This is correct.
quote:This is a clip that I think of as rotation occuring around the back hip. I see no weight transfer is occuring, just spinning. To me this is an example of a bad swing. What are your thoughts? The clip is below (the swing starts at 1:47 and ends at 2:00)
Swing
That's a bad swing. It's illustrates perfectly why a back hip centric only approach is wrong.
quote:This is correct.
Wrong!
quote:It's illustrates perfectly why a back hip centric only approach is wrong.
Wrong again!
quote:Originally posted by powertoallfields:quote:This is correct.
Wrong!
Nah!
quote:Originally posted by powertoallfields:quote:It's illustrates perfectly why a back hip centric only approach is wrong.
Wrong again!
Nah again!
quote:Originally posted by 4for4:
http://www.hitting-mechanics.net/himg/BarryTed.gif
Look Ma! No weight on the front foot until just before contact, therefore, no rotation on front hip or leg.
This is shift then swing. This is front hip rotation! Do you think he could adjust this swing once he got that weight on his front foot? No way! Of course, you don't have to in golf or slow pitch softball, hitting off a tee, hitting off a machine or much at all in bp or HR Derby.
Also notice how his back foot ends up past his front foot. Ever seen a MLB player do that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wguFY0DDoAU
Also notice how his back foot ends up past his front foot. Ever seen a MLB player do that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wguFY0DDoAU
