Swing

Hey Luggo,

You have what it takes, passion and "talent". Good luck my brother. peace shep

Here's 2 cents (feel free to delete)
Things I like: Your strength, your finish, your load, your hands.
Things I don't really like: Your posture. I think you're too straight up and down, then to load you got into a better posture. I'd like to see you start there and then even more torso lower, booty out.
I think you leave a little too much weight on the back foot at contact (just my opinion, but look at the big guys) and you'll see very little weight, if any on back foot at contact.
I can't see your front foot but if it's staying closed I like it.
Just one other thing (and over all I like your swing and I'll bet you crush the pitch down and in). I think you are sweeping a little bit and hitting the outside of the ball. I only say this because what I see your torso do after contact. Are you driving this ball over the pitcher? (i'm assuming tee is middle of plate) or are you sweeping and hitting this pitch to Right side?

Keep this in mind.. I'd take a dozen of you. Keep working and good luck this spring (some day it will warm up).

Man, seriously, clean out that garage!

B32, that is a pretty good looking swing. I imagine you have worked hard on developing it.

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Originally posted by trojan-skipper:
Things I like: Your strength, your finish, your load, your hands.
Things I don't really like: Your posture. I think you're too straight up and down...I'd like to see you start there and then even more torso lower, booty out...I think you leave a little too much weight on the back foot at contact (just my opinion, but look at the big guys) and you'll see very little weight, if any on back foot at contact.

I agree with all of this.

In particular, you are too "squish the bug" at the point of contact. That means your lower body movement and hip turn isn't quite right (but it is pretty good).

If you look at great hitters, their back toes are off the ground at the point of contact...



Your back toe is bent, rather than like this, at the point of contact.

Seems as though your back knee gets "stuck". I like your swing and you seem to have good size (although at 28 degrees you may just have a lot of clothes on!) So I assume you lift weights. Your hips may have gotten tigt due to either improper weight training technique or an improperly designed workout protocol, or both.

I would suggest working on your hip range of motion using a variety of tumbling and hurdle drills. These will help "unlock" you hips.

Most people overlook the fact that certain mechnanical flaws in the swing are present because imbalances in the body do not allow certain movements, such as proper rotation. You simply can't force the body to do something it does not have the capability to do.

In all I like your swing and can certainly tell you've put in a great deal of time and effort. Keep up the good work.

Thanks to everybody for their feedback. I do see what you mean t-s, I do put a lot of weight on my back foot. How would I go about correcting this?

And Jon, I do weight lift everyday, and I am not satisfied with my hip flexibility. Do you have any exercises I could do?

Thanks again to everybody who commented.

The "spin hook pull off the ball" swing.

Work on breaking apart the upper and lower body.

Hitting Illustrated

Great site Teacherman! Way to go bro! Your efforts are appeciated and should be rewarded by those seeking the Holy Grail of Hitting. I certainly enjoyed the entire package offered at your site and highly recommend it to others.

Hope Teacherman Jr has a great spring, peace, Shep

Agree with earlier posters in that he's keeping too much weight on his back side and is pulling off the ball.

Disagree 'bout the back foot......Doesn't matter.....

http://www.youthbaseballcoaching.com/mpg/bonds600.mpeg

Backstop, your swing looks very good.......Just make sure when you hit live pitching that you get some lean from the waist......

Hitting off a tee is not a good indicator of how you're using posture in your swing.....Actually, it's not a good indicator of much, at all.....When there's no timing involved, the body has an easy go of it....Always judge your swing by what your motor control functions do under the stress of hitting pitching.....

Getting feedback from a swing off a tee is questionable, at best.....

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Just make sure when you hit live pitching that you get some lean from the waist......

I totally agree with the forward lean suggestion made by BlueDog. As in the Bonds clip provided by BlueDog, the power-v in the body tilt is a vital component in using the center and core properly and will enable the hitter to hit the opposite way with power.. Great advice by BlueDog. peace shep

Some good stuff already.

Hit outside seam..yes

Weak loading move yes

No weight shift yes

Strong and athletic definitely

Could be really good ...probably

Needs more segmentation and experiment with one and two plane swings

One exception....closing off front foot. I don't teach that ...but maybe it is just me. You do not want to hit OVER a closed front hip.

Swingbuster:
Do you want his front toe facing the pitcher?

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One exception....closing off front foot. I don't teach that ...but maybe it is just me. You do not want to hit OVER a closed front hip.

Look at the clips of Albert Pujols and you will see a "slightly" closed front foot which appears top be at around 45 degree angle. His hips are still "squared up" and facing pitcher though. peace shep

PS-Swingbuster, you're hands back hitting instructional equipment is fantastic! We also enjoy all the excellent clips you allow us to have access to in order to share here in an instructional setting. You sir are good for baseball and much appreciated here. Can't speak for the others, but I would like for you to post as much as you can find time to do so here at HSBBW messageboard. peace shep

Maybe I don't know what CLOSED means.

I get behind kids and say load and stride. I push them unexpectedly. They will block with the foot angle that is natural. 100% I have done that to have landed 45 degrees and I don't call that closed.

No..you could never open it to home plate. People need to see that torque is how far around the body the rear elbow is relative to the lead toe been open . Stand up and try to hold the rear elbow around as far as it can go and then open the lead toe as far as it can open.

You could never use/ capture that much torque.

The loading of the upper body overlapping the opening of the lower body is what is important

The upper body loads the same each time and the lead foot takes you to the ball even though it is down when the ball is 23.6 feet from the batter.

Worry about getting a consistent upperbody load and let the lead foot take care of itself...it will IMO

Hey Shep

Check this loading hips and hands and the result on a high soft toss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WAjIO0_JTI

A two plane swing. I could do that with that lefty in about 20 swings I think

Watch where his barrel is about 4 inches from toe touch then at heel drop....plane transition

Swingbuster

He looks like he rolls his left ankle in that swing.

That lefty does have potential if he will take our suggestions and apply them to his prep work this spring.

Are those your 74 or so videoclips at the baseballyouthhitting site we have "all" been using here for quite some time? peace shep

The soft toss was cross tossed and too high. He had to turn on it and swing up but it went over that fence by quite a margin and the fence is 325 there.

I had not noticed the ankle...wow what you can miss as I have seen it 100 times watching the barrel loading....I see how people miss my points now..

I just wanted to thank everybody for their suggestions and comments. I have read them all and I plan on implementing these changes before my season starts. Thanks again.